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Comments on Tabletop Games

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Tabletop Games

Site Name

Tabletop Games

(Is this too confusing with TRPG?)

Description

Questions about all types of tabletop games -- board games, card games, dice games, and others. Questions about playing these games through online platforms are welcome if the questions are about the games and not the mechanics of those platforms.

Topics

Topics covered would include:

Q&A:

  • Questions that arise from playing games -- rules, house rules, strategies, etc.
  • Game components, e.g. "how can I fabricate or substitute for this important thing from an out-of-print game?".
  • Game design.
  • Promotion/publishing: how to, e.g. timing or structuring a KickStarter, but not promotion of specific games.
  • Game history, e.g. about categories or series of games (crayon rail, Catan, M:tG expansions).
  • Requests for recommendations if tightly scoped. (Let's explore this in the incubator.)

Blog (articles)

  • Reviews.
  • Session recaps.
  • Information about or reports from gaming conventions.
  • Essays about design, mechanics, or other gaming topics that community members want to share fleshed-out thoughts about.

Exclusions

These topics or types of posts would be out of scope:

  • Speculative questions about the future (e.g. when will X come out?).
  • Sports, even though table tennis technically involves a table.
  • Open-ended philosophy/"why" questions -- but these these might make great blog posts!
  • Solo puzzles like Sudoku? (How do we feel about those?)

Special Features

A blog category, as already noted. Is there a better name? It's not just reviews.

Overlaps

Some board and card games are rooted in RPGs. We'll need to work with the TRPG community on overlap. Broadly speaking, if it's about the role-playing/storytelling aspects it should go to TRPG, and otherwise it's ambiguous.

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Cards, Dice and Pawns (2 comments)
"Blog" section (1 comment)
Table sports (2 comments)
Table sports
trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago

I hadn't thought of table tennis. Now that you mention it, it also brings to mind snooker/pool/billiards and the grey area surrounding them. There are games using dice but that are about rolling them to land in scoring zones rather than just which way up they land, and they can be used to knock rival dice out of scoring zones, which makes them more like bowls or curling than conventional dice games.

Not suggesting we need to draw a definite line through the grey area though.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Oh wow, you're right. There are also tabletop shuffleboard-style games. This sounds like a job for Meta. :-)