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Originally Posted by Gaius
I would also recommend Tales of the Arabian Nights. It's similar to Betrayal in a lot of ways; you travel around a map and have a random encounter each turn. But unlike Betrayal, you choose how your character reacts to the encounter! Meet a handsome prince? You can offer to help him, or try to win his hand in marriage, or you can rob him blind. Encounter a mysterious creature? You can try to capture it, or you can follow it and see where it takes you. The encounters can seem rather disjointed and often the reactions you choose have completely unexpected consequences (for example, you expect robbing the prince to be easy because you have the stealth skill, but your character for some reason decides to charge right at him and attack even though she doesn't know how to use a weapon), so the game can get very silly. But if you like all the random events in Betrayal, Tales will not disappoint.
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I'm a fan of this one, too. My brother went treasure hunting and got attacked by bandits and then a monster. I punched an annoying barber in the face and wound up rich.
My brother has a large collection of board games and I've picked up copies for myself of the games that I've quite liked. He's working on designing some himself in his spare time.
My collection so far includes:
Pictionary (gotta have some classics around)
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Fury of Dracula (reprint)
Talisman (reprint)
Lord of the Rings (multi-board co-op game)
Citadels + expansion (probably my favourite)
Battleship
Settlers of Catan
Puerto Rico
Tsuro
Zombies!!
My wishlist right now is
Arkham Horror.
Not sure if they count as board games really, but I also picked up
Cthullu Gloom and
Aye, Dark Overlord to try out one day. Annoyingly, most games need either three people or take several hours to play (or both). Often, more people are up for a game of
Cranium over
Descent.
I've played a pile more than these but not what I've seen in the thread so far, except for
Pandemic. I'd probably own more games, too, if they weren't quite so pricey.