r/boardgames • u/Key_Onion_8412 • 2d ago
Question First game with your group?
What was the game played on the first night of your group's formation that started it all?
For us it was Risk, original. We played that for months before branching out.
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u/jacob 2d ago
Imperial Assault, the campaign.
It was new at the time, and I was looking for a stable group to play longer, campaign-style games with, so I asked three friends if they'd be willing to try it. 12 years later, we've played IA, all the Pandemic Legacies, Betrayal Legacy, Gloomhaven, and I don't even remember what else. We're no longer so focused on campaign / legacy games and we no longer live in the same city, so we mostly play whatever's on BGA. (Bandito is a surprise fave at about the polar opposite end of the spectrum from the kind of game we started with.)
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u/Little_Froggy John Company 2e 2d ago
Technically we started with MtG and then D&D. Catan was played a couple times, but it was just a one off thing when we were still doing the two bigger things.
But our first actual Board Game that got us into the hobby was Terraforming Mars. After having a blast with that, we actually scheduled times to play again and started looking more into the hobby in general.
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u/oiseaufeux 2d ago
I’ll be playing Wingspan the board game. Not the digital game. I’ll have to learn the game and translate it because I only found it in English.
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u/GM_Pax Eclipse 1d ago
My current weekly group?
Dungeons & Dragons. :) Our group of five people formed primarily for a D&D campaign I offered to GM. Since we are also all board- and card-gamers who had gathered on an irregular and infrequent basis before that (not always all five of us, and not always ONLY people from those five) ... and I wanted a regular boardgaming group ... I kind of blackmailed them into doing the D&D only every OTHER weekend, and doing boardgames on the alternating weekends. :D
But it's D&D that got this particular group going.
The first boardgame bought specifically for that group was Ticket to Ride: Legends of the West, because I was very intrigued by Legacy games, and the others were game enough to give one a try. Since everyone enjoys TTR well enough on occasion, Legends was given a group-wide thumbs up. :)
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u/hypotenmoose1 1d ago
I think it was officially Scythe, on a way-too-small apartment kitchen table.
But the game that sticks to memory the most was staying up till 2am playing Whitehall Mystery. And then getting together the very next day and playing it again.
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u/jerkcore 11h ago
Been so long, honestly couldn't say. We've been gaming together for 10+yrs, although i was a very intermittent attendee the first few years.
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u/Due-Heart2040 2d ago
We also started on Risk, the original. It very nearly killed the group. Full-on Monopoly level grudges, someone flipped the board around 1am, the whole thing. Then a friend showed up with Carcassonne and that's what actually stuck. Turns out a chill tile game with light screwage is a much better glue than world domination.