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Could you suggest a good board game that is playable turn by turn? We are a group of friends in very different time zone, and playing a turn based game, about o

• elemeno 14y ago
  Take a look at VASSAL (http://www.vassalengine.org/ http://www.vassalengine.org/) and the games it supports - between that and Dropbox, I find that playing turn based games over the internet is made a lot easier. How many of you are there? How much complexity and/or depth do you like? At the deep (deep) end, 18xx and specifically 1830 plays well as PBeM (with a Java app called Rails), or there are games like Here I Stand that play well PBeM, or war games. Pretty much anything which doesn't need much interaction between players during each person's turn works well (especially if you can trust each other to roll dice for each other where needed). If you want some more suggestions, feel free to drop me an e-mail and discuss further.
• RTigger 14y ago
  The games in that list that are turn based include Dominion, Lords of Waterdeep, and Stone Age. We stick to 1-hour games mostly because of the lunch hour restriction, if you're spacing the game out over a series of days it might be more interesting to play some of the longer games since it doesn't matter how long you take anyways.