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Re: board games
Big boardgame geek here... Never played lords of waterdeep, but besides that one we have all in games your list amongst our regular group of players. Depending on whether or not you like the really long games you should check out Twilight Imperium, which sometimes takes us up to 8-9 hours for a six player game: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1249 … rd-edition
Slightly more manageable but in the same style is Eclipse: typically 2 to 4 hours, depending on how good the players are: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72125/eclipse
I personally really enjoy Arkham Horror, but that's because I'm fond of the Cthulhu lore: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15987/arkham-horror
Those are all fairly complex (definitely more complex than settlers and ticket to ride, game of thrones would come a bit closer) and you need to be in the mood for that of course. Some simpler beer-and-pretzel games I like are Dominion (although that is technically a card game...) http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion which still is quite competitive, or something like Dixit which works better when some of our less competitive significant others also want to play: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/39856/dixit
I'd never heard the term Eurogames before... I guess that's probably because we just call them 'games' over here? 
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There are some games thought up and created in various euro country...taking the simple Hasbro game rules and turning them on their heads so we get eurogames...things like catan 
There are 3-4 of us that play regularily, the others arent versed in the ccg thing so we've avoided dominion
I have a copy of axis & allies that I've borrowed but we haven't tried it yet
We also try to avoid games with too much conflict....lords of waterdeep is cool tho it seems to get a bad rap from hardcores gamers
What us ur group #1 game mole? Ours is prolly pandemic....but lords of waterdeep has a lot of play recently (we just picked up the expansion)
Also I can play catan, carcasonne and ticket to ride with my kids so its nice to have simple mechanics sometimes
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Well, we don't play Dominion as a collectible card game as such, it's nothing like Magic The Gathering or Pokemon where the more money you spend the more competitive you are. I'm not into that myself. It's perfectly possible to just buy the first full box and play only that for the rest of your lives... (actually, we have two compatible starter kits between two of our group, so thats pretty much what we do). So I'd say give it a shot, it's the sort of thing thats easy to pick up but deceptively hard to master...
Depending on the type of night we're looking for I'd say we have two top contenders: Eclipse for the hardcore stuff and Ticket To Ride with the extended, more casual crowd. Although we stopped playing the European map in Ticket To Ride; once you know how it's too easy to win and if everyone knows how it becomes purely a matter luck alone...
Besides that we also do some classic tabletop roleplaying once in a while. Great fun if you have someone in your group who is willing to spend the time preparing the sessions. I'm personally more of an overall atmosphere/fun kinda guy than a hardcore strategist, so RPGs and cooperative games in general are very much my bag.
- Me_Wise_Magic
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Haven't played many board games in awhile. Miss playing Catan. Played it several years ago with a bunch of people in this gaming club in high school. Need to pick it up again. I used to collect a ton of trading cards from various media and play some games with friends in the neighborhood.
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So I've been on a bit of a binge lately
For some reason I've picked up playing magic the gathering again...pretty decent following in my area so every 2nd Friday or something I go out and play "Friday night magic" sometimes I win...sometimes I suck lol
Fantasy flight games also released a starwars card/dice game called Destiny...it's pretty good but hard to find right now...there is not alot of supply to meet the demand
Another starwars game came out last year called rebellion...just picked that one up last night...looks pretty sweet...but long...u basically playou either the empire or the rebellion...the empires job is to find the hidden Rebel base...the rebel's job is to not die
- Randall Flagg
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Me and about 7 other guys rent a cabin for 4 days once a year and spend the whole weekend playing board games and boozing. Mostly Risk, but Munchkin, D&D and some other games make the rounds too.
