**ghost tentacle** @TipsyTentacle · 02 oct. 2017, 17:07

**ghost tentacle** @TipsyTentacle · 02 oct. 2017, 17:07

ghost tentacle @TipsyTentacle

02 oct. 2017, 17:07

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I feel like a lot of board games are traditional games. E.g. there is an explicit win condition and lose condition.
But what if you just want something a bit more relaxed? Like building a world or civilization with some friends?
I feel like tabletop RP games have this down, although the majority are character based. Like, let's have a story about our OC's going on an adventure.
But what if I want something more rigid, like 7 Wonders, but with a more relaxing goal (e.g. have fun, have a cute civilization, have over 1million people without anyone in poverty, etc.).

**ghost tentacle** @TipsyTentacle · 2017-10-02T17:10:35Z

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Like some of my favourite game sessions in Civilization 4 is not playing to win (although I definitely know how to win), but it's was the roleplaying.
There is of course an explicit win condition, but winning isn't always the most fun. I suppose an explicit win condition could guide a player towards certain paths (e.g. conquest victory drives players to be aggressive warmongers like certain irl historical states). But what if none of my roleplaying goals align with a victory condition. If anything, the malleability of board game allows a lot more flexibility in this realm.

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**ghost tentacle** @TipsyTentacle · 02 oct. 2017, 17:13

**ghost tentacle** @TipsyTentacle · 02 oct. 2017, 17:13

02 oct. 2017, 17:13

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I should take one of my longer form board games (since they generally have a larger possibility space of actions/roleplaying in my opinion) and try to make it fit this idea of mine.

**ghost tentacle** @TipsyTentacle · 02 oct. 2017, 17:31

**ghost tentacle** @TipsyTentacle · 02 oct. 2017, 17:31

02 oct. 2017, 17:31

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Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings are sandbox video games (Stellaris and Hearts of Iron are not because they have rather explicit win conditions). I suppose that is more what I want from board games.
(You can argue that EU and CK have victory conditions in that your state/dynasty has to be ranked #1, but that's doesn't give you a victory screen or anything).

**@Vann@glitch.social** @Vann · 02 oct. 2017, 17:21

**@Vann@glitch.social** @Vann · 02 oct. 2017, 17:21

02 oct. 2017, 17:21

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@TipsyTentacle When I played Civ 5 it pretty much always went like this:
I would focus on something like science or culture or just making citizens happy, but eventually someone would try to invade me, so I'd switch all of my cities to production, make an ungodly number of ships and military units, steamroll whoever just tried to invade, and then just go back to chilling and trying to make their citizens happy too.

**ghost tentacle** @TipsyTentacle · 02 oct. 2017, 17:24

**ghost tentacle** @TipsyTentacle · 02 oct. 2017, 17:24

02 oct. 2017, 17:24

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@Vann When I play to win, I am an aggressive warmonger that would make Genghis Khan proud (^_^)
But when I chillplay, I am just a Han Chinese Empire. I expand militarily and aggressively in the beginning, then I just build a tall wonderful Celestial Empire.

**@Vann@glitch.social** @Vann · 02 oct. 2017, 17:29

**@Vann@glitch.social** @Vann · 02 oct. 2017, 17:29

02 oct. 2017, 17:29

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@TipsyTentacle same, except I usually played Carthage and used the extra production from the free ports to make enough ships to blockade my entire empire.

Until I got bored and just took over the world.

**ghost tentacle** @TipsyTentacle · 02 oct. 2017, 17:33

**ghost tentacle** @TipsyTentacle · 02 oct. 2017, 17:33

02 oct. 2017, 17:33

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@Vann Carthage is to rule the world 👌