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Message: [QUOTE="NotReallyHere, post: 408570, member: 81170"] Many of my friends who play(ed) D&D started with HeroQuest, which was more or less D&D disguised as a board game in the 80s. But, wow, did that ever blow the lid off of what us little kids thought a board game could actually be. So much more complexity than the Monopoly and Scrabble we were used to, to say the least 😅 We didn't discover true tabletop gaming until the mid-90s, when we tried out D&D, Shadowrun, and BattleTech. Of all of those, BattleTech was the closest to a traditional board game. Little cardboard stands for the robots, a pre-printed playing surface, and six-sided dice. It started off a lifelong obsession with the game and universe that I still have today 😇 While I do enjoy digging into traditional board games, I especially love the ones that blur the line between board game and RPG. And these days, there are plenty out there! The article makes mention of many of them. Makes we wish that 1) my original RPG group was still intact, and 2) I didn't live many time zones away from most of them, but such is life. Unfortunately for me, my screen time has been drastically reduced in my later years due to a series of head injuries causing me severe light blindness and photosensitivity, so if anything, I find myself more invested in tabletop games now than ever before. Even if I don't have anyone to play with. At least my wife likes jigsaw puzzles... [/QUOTE]

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