I am interested in playing Faiyum if 1-4 of you guys want to learn a cool new Friedman Friese game. The mod my friend made is pretty great. Tomorrow evening, anyone?
Gary Sax wrote: Ah_Pook is a great game teacher, thanks so much! Looking forward to playing Marvel Champions again.
Appreciate it, was my pleasure I'm deep down the Marvel Champions rabbit hole, as you might have noticed heh. Hopefully it'll land with your nephew/brother.
I messed around with the Dawnfall TTS mod and it seems totally fine and functional. I'm free most evenings, and I am interested in playing Dawnfall with anyone who might wish to. It's a 2p skirmish game, should take about an hour a match, and the teach shouldn't be too bad at all. Message me here or on discord sometime if you wanna do the monster mash
I would be very interested in playing Space Empires 4x on TTS of there are other interested parties. I haven't messed with the mod yet, but if we've got interested parties I'll poke at it. It would be a long TTS game, do we would need to schedule probably a weekend day for it.
I've tried to host Tabletop Simulator games assuming - wrongly, I find out - that people have nothing better to do with a global pandemic on. Almost no one has shown up except the guy who recently got divorced. At first, I at least got a perfunctory message of apology after we started, but even that's dried up.
Honestly, I'm pretty gutted. This last year started on a bad professional note for me even before the pandemic started, and it's been downhill ever since. I had really hoped to be able to move back to an urban area and seek out new opportunities, but that's all been dashed with the pandemic in the meantime. It feels like such a personal slight that people who spend dozens and dozens of hours playing video games a week can't be bothered to try showing up. I had hoped that the pandemic would mean people would be more willing to reconnect using technology, but that seems to have been a foolish notion.
How have you all managed? Has anyone actually succeeded in starting a regular game group on TTS?
I vacillate. We had a most Saturdays TTS game going on here/Discord for a while. Then sometimes I can't think about playing an online game for a month or whatever. It really depends.
If I were you and I weren't overly concerned about the people I play with, I would seek out Discord communities of any reasonably popular game you like to play, Count. There are a bunch of Discord communities that are super tuned into TTS. You can get a game of any leder game release, for example, at the drop of a hat if you subscribe to the Woodland Warriors Discord. There are also other official versions of game on stuff like Boardgamearena that will have a vibrant community of people always looking for a game.
I think my group has met up on TTS 4 times since all of this. In the "before times", we would have met up probably 12 times.
It's just such a pain in the ass, takes twice as long, and frankly doesn't provide me any of the social interaction I play board games for in the first place.
Not TTS, but I've been running a Saturday night RPG of Dungeon Crawl Classics. Attendance has been okay with sporadic flakiness. It's not the same. I'm good for about 2-3 hours, tops, before getting tired of staring at a damn screen. I think people feel more willing to cancel on a virtual group than a real life one where, among other things, valuable snacks and beer might go to someone else.
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