Message from @Soulman
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Are you looking for miniatures tabletop, or pen and paper style?
> I'm mostly into abstract strategy games (AbStrats), because they tend to have rules which are easier to learn and easier to teach to normies.
I'm actually the designer of three such games, but I don't know what the server's views on shameless self-promotion for things being sold on other websites is. They're not quite pencil-and-paper games (like Hangman), and they're not miniatures games.
Okay, that narrows it down.
I know of Roll20, which is a site for pen and paper and board games online.
I've never actually used them, but I've heard good things.
In any event, the website I used to use had pretty much every board game that ever existed, plus sister sites for tabletop RPG's and video games. As a database, it's pretty useful. As a place to log how often you've played each game you own, it's also useful. I just prefer not to give traffic to the site anymore because of the wokeness.
The last RPG I ran was on here, about five years ago. I just used my own server room, we all met up, had a good time.
I've used Tabletop Simulator in the past for playing virtual board games. It's sort of a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none thing. Most games, in my opinion, benefit from being played elsewhere if possible because other sites and programs can enforce the rules more, but for games unavailable elsewhere, it's the simplest way to make those games playable.
@mathgrant promoting something is fine
As long as you don't beg or try o force people
Okay, here's one of the games I've had published, by a small publisher in Spain: <https://www.nestorgames.com/#mammalath_detail>
This publisher specializes in portable games that fit into pencil cases or other small containers.
He showed it to me earlier
Looks pretty cool
Neat! No clue how that'd translate to online, though.
It's actually playable on the website Board Game Arena (at least, the base game is). I paid a programmer to do it.
One game I've gotten to play on Tabletop Simulator and have bought to hopefully play offline is Letter Jam: <https://czechgames.com/en/letter-jam/> It's a very thought-provoking word game where players can't see what letters they have, and have to give each other clues to help each other figure out their letters.
These sound like neat concepts. Other than advertising, though, I don't know how you could effectively promote them.
If you know the game Hanabi, it's like that game had a baby with a word game.
I do have a friend that likes board games with his family, I'll be sharing your links with him.
@Peris_Arts specs?
On the topic of board games, my favorite aspect of chess is how easy it is to distinguish between a rook and a king. It’s good to know that this chess set I saw on TV a while back retains that great feature: https://www.chess2020.com/ (Note: I’m told that people outside the US may be unable to see this website.)
The makers of the chess set chose the Democratic figureheads to use as rooks, knights, and bishops long before the Democratic Presidential ticket was announced. For the rooks, they picked Obama and Biden. Now Biden is the presumptive nominee for POTUS (and hence the king). Whoops!
Also, Mike “The Electric Fence” Pence being a queen is highly ironic given particular connotations of the word “queen” <:thinking:726878987837636698>
Anyone here play ESO?
Am I the only one who has problems with most Japanese games
Let me explain
Most Japanese games tend to be animeyi
And they tend to have big breast and tight tigh and soft skins just like animes sure the story are great they always seems to exaggerate the feminine body while making them strong as fuck
An example of this Nier Automata 2b is a robot but she still has breast and sexy tights
Like what's the need for a breast for a robot
@Black Box Painting she needs them to make fat incels buy the videogame
<:thinking:726878987837636698>
Lets goooo
@Deleted User I'm using some cheat mods, a radio mod, and a zombie plague mod. I'm not good at the game, so I cheat to learn stuff better
Anime No Sekai for customization mod
TNO Kaiserreich and Endsieg
Real shit
Zombie plague?
Hang on