"Game that nobody wants to play with you" thread?

Any Tabletop rpg.

Its not that my group doesn't want to play, it's just that no one wants to commit, even if its like once or twice a month, they keep saying they have to much going on, which in the case of two of the guys I believe.

"game"
Ken Burnside is a high simulationist with a Math degree. It shows.

its not THAT difficult

I mean it looks okay but nobody wants to try.

>Math degree

I was wondering what kind of person would think that "ATTACK VECTOR" was a cool name.

not even mtg players?

It's a special kind of insanity that made Wizards think that people play magic for the art, lore, or characters.

I play for those things even though I know they're mostly shit

That looks cool as fuck, what game is that my friend?

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26458/chandragupta

let's be clear: this is actually a great game. The figs look like melted cumsprites, sure, but the actual gameplay is unexpectedly fun. First main rulebook I've ever seen that lays out tons of future material they haven't even published yet, like artifacts.

It is pretty cool, but I haven't played more than the first battle, and we skipped a bunch of the rules. It's kind of big to swallow, but it's also a blast.

And I found out that you pretty much need a plate of transparent plexiglass

Everything.
Living in rural Ireland sucks ass.

Every RPG that's not D&D(Was PF, now 5e), with the VERY infrequent exception of Savage Worlds, SW:EotE, or IKRPG. Attempts have been made at Only War, but disintegrate after like 1 session.
Cat? No
Anima? Weebshit 0/10 wouldn't even look at(even though two play Force of Will)!
UESRPG? Nope, even if they like Elder Scrolls stuff.

I love this game. But only because I still have a shit ton of terrain from Heroscape

People who like Aerospace. :(

.*

Literally anything I bring to our local game store. I have two dozen board/tabletop/miniatures/deckbuilding games, but when it comes down to it, most everyone would rather just play magic for the one millionth time.
I asked the store owner out of curiousity because I notice his stock doesn't ever really change- he told me that since they've been open, I'm the only person that has purchased anything non magic related, period.

Perhaps, but the last edition I read was impenetrably written once you got past the chirpy and overly optimistic introduction.

I get that game rules need to be written with some technical skill, but this was far denser and much drier than even SFB.

"Attack Vector" IS a cool name, though. Sounds science-y while also promising violence.

The "game" is an incomplete course in rocket science, though. You'll hate playing it and what you learn will STILL get you killed should you ever find yourself in orbit.

my homebrew...

Rural Australia son, I know these feels.

When I do go to meets...
>Arcadia quest
Looks too childish, the aesthetics are too kiddy
>Arkham horror
Dude, just like, dude, just play Edritch Horror
>BSG
>Descent
Nah, we have Imperial Assault...MUCH better game bro
>Lagoon
This game is boring, and confusing.

Only game that sees any good play is evolution...kill me now.

It sounds very math-y, and the quickest way to make most people run away from a game is to promise them a lot of math.

>is to promise them a lot of math.
You need alot of math, if you dont want tables.

>Insert Star Trek anything here

>pic related, also miniatures that are truly rare due to a one day print run.

i have the TSR/SSI Air War and Star Fleet battles. they are both quite similar.

i have a ton of old games.

heard of VOR?

Clan War?

Math gives me sweat on my brow, when I read that Pax Romana used percentages when calculating battles, it almost led me to not buy the game.

In practice it works fine, though, and the player aids go a long way to help you figure out stuff. But I'll readily admit that math (beyond addition, subtraction and their ilk) in board games scare me

>Be a fan of GMT

Fuck.

yeah......
i own twilight strugle as well, played it three times.....

...

To be fair, even you don't want to play that.

It's not tabletop, but there is flat out no store within a three hour driving distance that plays Vanguard. It's power creep as hell but it's fun.

Probably better off that no one wants to play though otherwise it would attract undesirables.

>>Arkham horror
>Dude, just like, dude, just play Edritch Horror
They're right, though. It's the better game.

Are they really so fucking jaded they dont want to play a game because it has a cartoony artstyle? oh yea because every fucking cartoon is childish.

now i dont play it because im fucking broke and board games are expensive (lookin at you huge-boxed board games that may or may not have been used to kill someone)

Obviously not.

They take one look at Arcadia Quest and go "Isn't this just a rip-off of SDE but worse? (it is)"

Then I like to think they just don't like it because it's cartoony.

oh yea i forgot they both look quite very fucking similar...theyre both super expensive anyway (probably im not sure) and no one will ever want to play it in my area since to them "board games" means chutes and ladders, cards or monopoly. except maybe my 2 cousins who fucking love munchkin since i showed it to them.

Anything except pathfinder and 5e. Pretty much everyone in town. I have to turn too roll 20 and irc for any other games, and we all know how much those turn out.

>any burning wheel rpg
>any lcg/ecg (only games played at FLGS are magic and dice masters)

playing RPGs in IRCs? can i get details im curious.

I've also been hounding after a UESRPG game. Only played three sessions of it but god damn I got hooked.

The one time I found a group online the DM had so many house rules it was a different game.

Don't they have a lot of games? Kind of interested in trying a COIN game myself.

Try me

I hate when people that don't know math claim a title sounds math-y. A vector is gradeschool shit, they only think it's intense mathematics because they recognize it.

>Talk about the subject of GMT games with a friend
>"I just don't have the same basis in ancient history like you have. When we play Commands and Colors it's clear there's more going on in your head than in mine. To me it's just a few guys stabbing each other with spears"
>I know he's read a lot about Al Qaeda and ISIS
>Start talking about A Distant Plain
>You can see his hype accumulating

It's weird how much an interest in history and politics can enhance your game experience. Likewise, when I explained to my gf how ancient warfare and politics actually worked, it really made her more interested in games about the time period.

And if you're from Scandinavia, there's just something about Pax Baltica...

>Tons of fun
>Surprisingly balanced
>No build is broken
>Never seen a single duplicated build at any event
>WizKids support of the game is a fucking joke
>Everyone would rather play the Star Wars version instead of the D&D ones with dragons and magic and shit
>sadanon.jpg

>Liking history
NEEEEEERD!

I couldn't really get history because I couldn't wrap my head around remembering dates to compare what was going on at different places at the same time.

You're making some pretty bold and arrogant assumptions right there.

My uncle always used to beat my shit in at Axis as Allies as a kid, learned all sorts of cool shit from him. I saw some friends playing it a few years ago and joined in the next 2 games. I guess they had never heard of operation sealion, or something and they never played it again when I was around.

Nomic games always die so quickly, even if you manage to trick someone into playing with you.

I kind of had trouble with this as well, but I eventually got around it by learning one date (in my case 1453) really damn well; then, whenever I learned of a historical event I would just place it before, or after. Then when I felt I knew what came before or after, I started adding dates (1066, year 0, and such), and mentally plotted historical periods.

Also, for some reason I can't post without adding a picture, so I'll post some more big historical games

>>No build is broken
>>WizKids support of the game is a fucking joke
These two points are strongly related. WizKids has a repeatedly earned reputation for breaking games with event prizes.

Which is funny, because the DDAW prizes are very hit and miss.

>God tier
White dragon
Solar angel
Earth gensai fighter

>Good tier
Drider
Red dracolich
Bronze dragon
Tiamat

>Okay Tier
Brass dragon
Air elemental
Black dragon

>Utter shit tier
Chimera
Vrock demon
Nalfeshnee demon
Hieracosphinx
Beholder

I'd play Attack Vector except I have a first printing where the text is kind of messed up, so I never bothered to sit down and look it over.

I just want to play classic Deadlands. Why won't they play? Why?

>I am actually retarded
Get out.

>high simulationist
sign me up for this

Have a taste.

I love star trek, but let's be honest; Star Trek Attack Wing is just a ham-fisted reskin of X-Wing with cocked scales, low tier models and less life to it.

Wish there was something better but it's just kind of pants.

Battletech (no one even remotely near me in michigan even sells it)
MtG board game

"Ken Burnside, of Starfleet Battles fame"
Hmm. I wonder if that lifetime ban from SFB events was ever lifted?

I'm surprised they haven't just introduced a mechanic that makes grade 2 sitting a more viable strategy. It would change the balance from flat creep into build rock-paper-scissors, with old G3 strategies scrubbing out to Legion and Stride, which scrub to 2-sitting, which scrubs to old G3.

Then again, making old decks have a niche is probably exactly why they haven't done it.

Dropzone: Bought the reasonably priced phr starter set, spent some time painting it up, bought the reasonably priced rulebook, learned all the rules, told my friends about it, they don;t even look at it and continue buying hundreds of euro of 40K.
Fantasy: One friend. Then AoS happened. Now I'm the only one still buying fantasy minis.
MtG: We were all really into it for a while and then out of the blue everybody else lost interest. Again, I'm the only one still buying cards.

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I'd play with you user, as long as you play Classic Battletech with me.

Why Classic instead of Reloaded?

I've only read Reloaded myself so honest question.

its also kinda trash

Fate except the players are Demigods in a golden age of Rome setting.

I need to put my history degree to use god damn it.

You have bad taste.