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I'm double billing a role-playing game and a board game. The past few weeks I've been involved with a Play-by-Forum (pbf) group with the role playing game Diaspora. I secured it for our public library system and was preparing a kind of The Morrow Project prequel setting. I was thinking an adventure or two or three to get a nascent interstellar program running.
And then RPGG folks started talking a second round and critical mass was achieved and launched. The results are here in our [geekurl= http://www.boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/DiasporaRPG-Local_Gro...]Local Group campaign wiki[/geekurl].
-----Props to a local gaming friend. I've been cajoled, hostile traded, stock and company dumped and more in learning [geekurl= http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/19/18xx]18xx games[/geekurl]. If you've played Age of Steam or other stock games this is all of that, rolled up into one and a bag of poker chips.
I thought I was on the way out with 18xx games but I've been playing a few of them electronically lately. I can't recall the last time I played it live, but it's been good to get back. But nowhere near as fun to play live. Everything was reinvigorated with 18Mex and, just yesterday, a play of 1846.
I've turned a corner. I'm going to purchase my first 18xx game (and re-started work on 18AL/GA). I can't wait to sit down with my dad to play a recommended good 2-player version like 1860: Railways on the Isle of Wight or 1825 Unit 2.
Great gaming has just gotten phenomenal.
I still can't wait to get Battlestar Galactica!
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