{"id":2034,"date":"2019-02-25T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2019-02-25T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:51:03","slug":"a-place-at-the-table-say-what-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/a-place-at-the-table-say-what-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Place at the Table: Say What? Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are going to just jump right into part 2 of clarifying board game terms. So, away we go. You can find part 1 here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Resource Management games are games where you need to manage your resources in order to win. In most cases, you will need to have a required amount of some item in order to complete an action. This could be something like building a road or upgrading an element of the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drafting games are games where you will be given a hand of cards, and then you will draft a card for your hand before passing the rest of the cards to the person on your left or right. My favorite game, Terraforming Mars<\/a>, has a drafting element to it. When I\u2019m teaching Terraforming, I generally tell people that drafting is \u201cpick and pass.\u201d If you sit in on me playing (or teaching) Terraforming Mars, you\u2019ll more than likely hear me telling Number One to \u201cpick and pass\u201d because he\u2019s holding everything up. Rest assured, I only ever tell Number One that he\u2019s holding things up. I\u2019d never do that to other people. Well, maybe I\u2019d do it to Kyle, but he can get distracted sometimes while playing games because he\u2019s running the game night. (Sorry, Kyle, but you know it\u2019s true!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Terraforming Mars<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Engine building games are games where cards are activated. When the cards are activated you perform some action or gain some sort of resource. In some cases, the activated action on your card may benefit the other players. In most cases, you start at the right most card and work your way left. I\u2019ve found that it takes me a couple of plays to figure out the best way to maximize my engine building. There are some engine building aspects to Terraforming Mars. The most recent game to hit our table<\/a> that is a fantastic example of an engine building game is Wingspan<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wingspan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Deck building games are games where you build a deck a\ncards. Generally, the cards provide you with a resource or an action, and you\nplay those cards in order to take the action or gain the resource. I\u2019m not a\nfan of deck building games, so I don\u2019t play them on a regular basis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Role playing games are another big faction of gamers. In an\nRPG, you take on the role of a character and make decisions throughout the\ngame. RPGs don\u2019t necessarily have a \u201cboard\u201d, so I don\u2019t know if they\ntechnically fall under the category of \u201cboard games\u201d, but RPG is an acronym\nthat comes up in the board game community from time to time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of heavy games, you will sometimes hear gamers refer\nto game as heavy or crunchy. For me, heavy games are games that will require\nsome deeper strategy and planning out the next several turns in advance. Heavy\nand Crunchy can apply to different games based on the player. For some, a heavy\ngame might be a game that requires a time commitment of more than 2 hours. Yes,\nsome of us do play games that last more than 2 hours. It sounds crazy. If\nsomeone had told me 5 years ago that I\u2019d voluntarily be sitting down to play a\ngame that was going to take 3+ hours, I would have laughed and told them there\nis no way. But, here I am. You may reach this point as well, but it could take\nsome time. Or you may find that you are more of a social gamer who prefers\nparty games with a crowd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Feast for Odin: One of the “heaviest” games you will find. Literally and mechanically.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I hope that this helps you navigate the world of board games\na little easier. Until next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Need to know all the lingo at the table? Here are some more board game terms you may hear at the table. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272,277],"tags":[257,280],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-place-at-the-table","category-blogs","tag-a-place-at-the-table","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}