When most people think of tabletop games, they think of
classics such as Monopoly, Clue, Scrabble, Life, Sorry, etc. This was true for me until just about four
years ago. Around that time my wife, Em,
and I found a card game called Munchkin at our local Barnes & Noble. Munchkin is a super-fun card game put out by
Steve Jackson Games. How can you not be
intrigued by a game that has a slogan, “Kill the monsters, steal the treasure,
stab your buddy”? The best way to
explain this game is that it is a card game that takes role-playing clichés and
somewhat makes fun of them. I simply
mention Munchkin because it is the first “designer game” that my wife and I
bought and it really opened my eyes to the different types of tabletop and
board games that are out there.
Lately I have become even more immersed in the world of
tabletop gaming and much of that is due to Wil Wheaton’s fabulous Geek andSundry show simply entitled “Tabletop”.
In this show Wil Wheaton (of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Big BangTheory fame) brings together a bunch of his friends to play modern and designer
tabletop games. Ironically enough, one
of the first games they play is Munchkin!
This show really amped up my interest in board games and the tabletop
world in general.
I decided to create this blog to share my interest in the
world of gaming. It has become a new
hobby and one that I hope to continue for as long as I have the mind to
play. Games really bring out the best
and worst of people and I find them to be a very interesting look at humanity
in general. Em and I have decided to purposefully have an
“unplugged” night each week to play games together and ignore our cell phones,
Facebook accounts and the online world in general.
Along with these personal game nights we also
are starting to have game nights where we invite our friends over and just have
fun playing together, focusing on introducing them to new tabletop games. After these evenings I plan on making short
posts about the night and I will include pictures as well. I truly hope that I am able to spark an
interest in others in the hobby as I think it can only benefit from more
fans. I also hope to show people that we
are in the best generation of board gaming and that they aren’t just old boring
time-sucks, but rather a rich tapestry of art in the form of entertainment.
My posts will include many different types. I plan to post about all of our game nights,
both mine and Em’s personal ones and our group game nights. I will also do some reviews and previews of
games that I am interested in but haven’t played, as well as those I have. I plan to post lists and also give some
general info regarding the hobby, including facts about designers and game
companies.
All in all I hope that this becomes a fun journey and that
others will join me. Please feel free to
comment below as I am absolutely interested to hear what others have to say
about gaming and the blog. If you have
something you would like to know or a game you’d be interested in me finding
out more about, comment! I look forward
to many more posts and many more years of a hobby that is becoming a very big
part of my life. Until next time, game on!
