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cardboard ahoy!
Aug. 11th, 2006 10:31 pmSo here's the deal..
I am a gamer at heart. I enjoy games in general, which includes computer games. But what I really, really, enjoy is playing card games and board games against other people. And by board games I mean not Risk or Diplomacy, the other ones like Settlers of Catan. And by card games I mean not Munchkin, and both regular cards (bridge, poker, etc) and collectible cards a la Magic. In short, not the games that most people bring to games nights. I also like roleplaying. But not the kind that goes until midnight at uni and leaves me unable to get home.
So in short, I am a gamer without a gaming group. My uni friends.. well, all too few of them are willing to play, and its getting hard to meet up with them these days at any rate. There's no point in my joining the Gameplayers society at uni because in my (albeit limited) experience they don't really do anything except roleplay, and the roleplaying invariably happens at times I can't go.
Alison suggested that maybe I should consider starting a new club on campus, since gameplayers doesn't really do much in the way of board or card games. It would be the card playing and boardgames society, aka... CardBoardSoc! Pros: I would have a group of people I could actually play games with, my friends would probably join too I expect, I could use the memebership cost to buy more games. Cons: Organisation involved, need 15 people to affiliate with Casoc, Gameplayers probably wouldn't be happy since I would be in fairly direct competition with them, and I would probably have to deal with one of my exes who is an avid gamer and still hangs around unsw on occasion.
It seems like a lot of effort just to have a gaming group, but gaming really is my drug. Last Sesoc meeting was spent playing hold 'em in preparation for the upcoming poker night, and it reminded me of how great the feeling is. Incidentally, I'm quite a good poker player since I'm having so much fun that I tend to wear a demented grin no matter what my cards are like.
Opinions?
I am a gamer at heart. I enjoy games in general, which includes computer games. But what I really, really, enjoy is playing card games and board games against other people. And by board games I mean not Risk or Diplomacy, the other ones like Settlers of Catan. And by card games I mean not Munchkin, and both regular cards (bridge, poker, etc) and collectible cards a la Magic. In short, not the games that most people bring to games nights. I also like roleplaying. But not the kind that goes until midnight at uni and leaves me unable to get home.
So in short, I am a gamer without a gaming group. My uni friends.. well, all too few of them are willing to play, and its getting hard to meet up with them these days at any rate. There's no point in my joining the Gameplayers society at uni because in my (albeit limited) experience they don't really do anything except roleplay, and the roleplaying invariably happens at times I can't go.
Alison suggested that maybe I should consider starting a new club on campus, since gameplayers doesn't really do much in the way of board or card games. It would be the card playing and boardgames society, aka... CardBoardSoc! Pros: I would have a group of people I could actually play games with, my friends would probably join too I expect, I could use the memebership cost to buy more games. Cons: Organisation involved, need 15 people to affiliate with Casoc, Gameplayers probably wouldn't be happy since I would be in fairly direct competition with them, and I would probably have to deal with one of my exes who is an avid gamer and still hangs around unsw on occasion.
It seems like a lot of effort just to have a gaming group, but gaming really is my drug. Last Sesoc meeting was spent playing hold 'em in preparation for the upcoming poker night, and it reminded me of how great the feeling is. Incidentally, I'm quite a good poker player since I'm having so much fun that I tend to wear a demented grin no matter what my cards are like.
Opinions?
