We played board games during our last two tabletop nights: Chrononauts and Resistance. Both were excellent.

Played Settlers and Zombie Dice. Castle Panic is in the mail.

Just played Infiltration. It's the break-in-and-steal-stuff board (technically 'card') game that FASA, Gamepro and Catalyst failed to make under the Shadowrun license.

It has a nice random-two-story-office-building mechanic along with an alarm/alert status. When my wife and I played we both lost as we were too far into the building to escape the corporate mercenaries.

Not quite a board game, but it comes sort of close.

The Werefrog played Cthulu Dice last week, and it was pretty fun. The Werefrog even managed to win a few rounds.

Played some Robo Rally last week. Love that game.

I have Cthulu Dice, I don't know I thought it was far too random. I like Zombie dice more, you have the 'press your luck' thing going on and theres more thought to it.

Castles of Burgundy has been popular with my board game group recently. I think I might have to get my own copy.

Tonight I will be playing, or helping a group play, One False Step For Mankind, by Cheapass Games. For a board game it has a long run time (3+ hours) and the players are 8 and up. It's very nearly an adult-level-complexity game, but once they get going they are pretty good, and the game does move smoothly once you get going.

Got to play some Carcassonne and Last Night on Earth last night.

My son got Quarriors this Friday and we played the snot out of it over the weekend (ten times for me and twelve for for him.) We both loved the fact that its literally a new game every time because the rules change each time the monster and spell cards are laid out. Once we've gotten our fill of the original game, the expansions are a done deal.

A few cool things, last night we dragged Justin's GF into a game and she won first time ever! On the final game of the night, Justin was down by ten in last place and was destined to lose when he got a perfect roll and managed to ready and score 12 glory and win the game from third (last) place.

I'm sure some folks would hate that kind of randomness, but for a light party game with lots of strategy and chaos it means that it ain't over until its over.
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TAZ