Okay long post incoming!! I enjoy playing tabletop games but man it is so hard to wrap my brain around all the rules when starting out. I pretty much just play whatever my husband picks.
Lately we've been playing these three card games - Struggle for Catan, Monopoly Deal, and Fluxx!
- I really love Struggle for Catan because I LOVED playing the full Settlers of Catan board game (despite having played it only once or twice), but we pretty much never have enough people to play the full game. Struggle for Catan works with just two players! And it's not a super long game either.
- Monopoly Deal is fun, like a more fast-paced version of the full Monopoly game. Wasn't too difficult to understand the rules since I already know how Monopoly works. And it was really cheap haha
- Fluxx is great, it comes in all different kinds of themes. We have a Cthulhu version and a Zombie version. The rules constantly change throughout the game as you play, so each time you play is a bit different.
Other board games I like.. Risk is classic but takes SO LONG and I will never win lmao. Pandemic, Scrabble, and Cluedo are a lot of fun! I haven't tried many more board games but I love going to the board game store and just... looking at all the art. If only we had more space and more money for board games
I am interested in Warhammer/Warhammer 40k; we bought a starter Warhammer set years and years ago and.. have assembled only 1 and a half figures lmao. I was surprised I managed to put this guy together and not mess it up:
Haven't painted him obviously, he's just been collecting dust unfortunately. But I think it would be a lot of fun to get into painting miniatures.. I probably wouldn't paint Warhammer miniatures the way they're intended to be painted though, I like the idea of making them pastel and cute, I think that would be so silly
We have a mountain of D&D 5E books; we did a podcast for a bit and I sewed quite a few dice bags. I really miss playing D&D, despite the fact that I am not good at even basic math (or doing voices) and the rules still confuse me. I attempted DMing my own homebrew campaign in an underwater world; it was difficult but a lot of fun, I loved worldbuilding. Never did finish the campaign though. A shame that COVID and Animal Crossing: New Horizons had to happen when it did
My husband and I also played a lot of Call of Cthulhu -- kinda similar to D&D but like.. way more punishing. I liked the Sanity mechanic in Call of Cthulhu, I think that would be fun to incorporate into D&D somehow!
Anyway yeah, I like card games, board games, TTRPGs! I just don't like the time it takes to learn the rulessss