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My game group tried a 12-hour session of Twilight Imperium... it ended with a pizza box fort
Last Saturday, we started at 10am in my buddy's basement in Columbus, thinking we'd be done by dinner. By hour eight, the galactic council votes got so heated that Dave actually built a wall of empty pizza boxes between him and the guy who broke their trade agreement. We called the game at 10pm because the 'Letnev player' refused to move his fleet unless we gave him the last slice of garlic bread. Has anyone else had a board game turn into full-on, silly roleplay like that?
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hayden_ramirez5mo ago
Remember my friend's Catan game that turned into a full-on cold war. He traded all his wood to one guy early on, then the guy refused to give him any brick later. My friend spent the next two hours just quietly moving his robber to block that player's tiles every single turn, never saying a word to him. The rest of us were just trying to build roads while they had this silent feud going on across the table. It got so tense his wife finally made them shake hands.
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nguyen.blake5mo ago
So @hayden_ramirez, did the handshake feel real or was it super forced?
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phoenix_lewis5mo ago
A pizza box fort is the only logical response to a broken trade deal! That level of commitment to the bit is amazing. I'm just impressed you made it twelve whole hours.
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gray_morgan3mo ago
Ngl this whole story is basically just a metaphor for adult life in general. We trade our time and energy with people, somebody breaks the deal, and suddenly we're all building emotional forts instead of fixing anything directly. The fact that a silent feud over board game resources feels more real to me than half the workplace meetings I've sat through says a lot about how we handle conflict.
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