Fermanagh 10 Share Posted December 9, 2021 (edited) The Classical Games of Almaris This is the megathread dedicated to all of the known board, dice, and card games in the world of Almaris (and the resources needed to play them while roleplaying). If you'd like to contribute with your own games or resources, please leave a reply and I'll be sure to add it to this list. __________________________________________ Backgammon Spoiler Backgammon is a two-player game where each player has fifteen pieces (checkers or men) that move between twenty-four triangles ( points ) according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to be first to bear off, i.e. move all fifteen checkers off the board. Its origins are clouded, as variations of the game have floated across the realm as long as the history to record it has, but modern Backgammon seems to have first taken root in the Kingdom of Norland, before spreading across the realm.It can be played from the following place(s):https://cardgames.io/backgammon/ Board Game Arena Briscola Spoiler Briscola is a tactical memory game involving the standard Orenian 40-card deck intended for two to six players. It's believed to have originated in the Holy Orenian Empire sometime between 1500-1700, as an evolution to similar games now lost to the annals of time. It can be played from the following place(s): Board Game Arena The game play is as follows: After the deck is shuffled, each player is dealt three cards. The next card is placed face up on the playing surface, and the remaining deck is placed face down, sometimes covering half of the up-turned card. This card is the Briscola, and represents the trump suit for the game. Before the game begins if a player has the deuce of trump he/she may retire the "briscola". This move may only be done at the beginning of the game or first hand. Before the first hand is played (in four player game), team players may show each other their cards. The deal, and game play itself, proceeds counter-clockwise. The player to the right of the dealer leads the first hand (or trick) by playing one card face up on the playing surface. Each player subsequently plays a card in turn, until all players have played one card. The winner of that hand is determined as follows: if any briscola (trump) has been played, the player who played the highest valued trump wins if no briscole (trumps) have been played, the player who played the highest card of the lead suit wins Unlike other trump card games, players are not required to follow suit, that is, to play the same suit as the lead player. Once the winner of a trick is determined, that player collects the played cards, and places them face down in a pile. Each player maintains his/her own pile, though the four- and six-player versions may have one player collecting all tricks won by his partners. Then, each player draws a card from the remaining deck, starting with the player who won the trick, proceeding counter-clockwise. Note that the last card collected in the game should be the up-turned Briscola. The player who won the trick leads the next hand. During game play and only before the next to the last hand is played, a player who draws the card with the seven of trump can take the "briscola". This may be done only if the player has won a hand. Before the last hand, people in the same team can look at each other's cards. After all cards have been played, players calculate the total point value of cards in their own piles. For multi-player games, partners combine their points. Chess Spoiler Chess is an abstract strategy game. It is played on a square chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player (one controlling the white pieces, the other controlling the black pieces) controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and there is no way for it to escape. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw. Much like games of a similar age, it's origins are a mystery lost to time. It can be played from the following place(s):https://lichess.org/https://www.chess.com/play/online Board Game Arena Draughts Spoiler Draughts, sometimes known as Checkers, is a strategy board game for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. The origins of Draughts is a mystery well-lost to time. It can be played from the following place(s): https://cardgames.io/checkers/Board Game Arena The game play is as follows: Draughts is played by two opponents, on opposite sides of the gameboard. One player has the dark pieces; the other has the light pieces. Players alternate turns. A player may not move an opponent's piece. A move consists of moving a piece diagonally to an adjacent unoccupied square. If the adjacent square contains an opponent's piece, and the square immediately beyond it is vacant, the piece may be captured (and removed from the game) by jumping over it. Only the dark squares of the checkered board are used. A piece may move only diagonally into an unoccupied square. When presented, capturing is mandatory in most official rules and where the player does not capture the opposing player can remove the opponent piece as penalty (or muffin) and where there are two or more such positions the player forfeits that/those he cannot move. Although some rule variations make capturing optional.In almost all variants, the player without pieces remaining, or who cannot move due to being blocked, loses the game. The Connection of Four Spoiler The Connection of Four (also known as Four in a Row) is a two-player connection board game, in which the players choose a color and then take turns dropping colored discs into a seven-column, six-row vertically suspended grid. The pieces fall straight down, occupying the lowest available space within the column. The objective of the game is to be the first to form a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of four of one's own discs. Its origin has been linked to the Cove of Freeport, where through its discovery or invention it spread across the realm by sea. It can be played from the following place(s): https://connect-4.org/en https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=connectfour Cribbage Spoiler Cribbage, sometimes known as Crib, is a card game, traditionally for two players, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. It can be adapted for three or four players. Cribbage has several distinctive features: the cribbage board used for score-keeping, the eponymous crib, or box—a separate hand counting for the dealer—two distinct scoring stages (the play and the show) and a unique scoring system including points for groups of cards that total fifteen. It's origins date back to the existence of the Commonwealth of Sutica, when it was a popular game in taverns. It can be played from the following place(s): https://cardgames.io/cribbage/ https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=cribbage Game of Ur Spoiler The Game of Ur, also known as the Game of Twenty Squares is an ancient game, the first known game to originate from the Qalasheen culture. It is a two-player strategy race board game, popular and accessible to the masses due to its relative simplicity. In modern times, the game has acquired spiritual significance among some, and events in the game may be believed to reflect the player's future and convey messages from deities or other supernatural beings. It can be played from the following place(s): https://royalur.net/game/ https://tabletopia.com/games/trgo-ur Go and its Variations Spoiler Go, or Weiqi, is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. It was developed sometime ago in the area around the Huang-he river, and is attested as the Li-Ren culture's earliest game. It can be played from the following place(s): https://online-go.com/play https://tabletopia.com/games/go https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=classicgo The game play is as follows: The playing pieces are called stones. One player uses the white stones and the other, black. The players take turns placing the stones on the vacant intersections (points) of a board. Once placed on the board, stones may not be moved, but stones are removed from the board if the stone (or group of stones) is surrounded by opposing stones on all orthogonally-adjacent points, in which case the stone is captured. The game proceeds until neither player wishes to make another move. When a game concludes, the winner is determined by counting each player's surrounded territory along with captured stones and komi (points added to the score of the player with the white stones as compensation for playing second).Games may also be terminated by resignation Pente Spoiler Pente is an abstract strategy board game for two or more players, played with typical Go stones on a board of varying size. In this simplified game, players compete to form an orthogonal or diagonal line of five stones, while being able to capture enemy stones by surrounding them with two of their own. This variation of Go is poorly documented, and its history has been loosely traced to the merchants of Talon's Port It can be played from the following place(s): https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=pente Blooms Spoiler Blooms is an abstract strategy board game inspired by Go, whose creation has been attributed to the Druids of the Druidic Order. In this game of territory capture and control, two players battle by capturing territory with warm and cold stones, or flowers, capturing the enemy's when surrounding them. Once no legal moves remain, the player with the most territory wins. It can be played from the following place(s): https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=blooms Haeseni Chess Spoiler Haeseni Chess, sometimes known as Ludo, is a strategy board game for two to fourplayers, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die. Haeseni Chess is perhaps one of the most well-documented games in the history of the realm, having been created by Robert I of Haense in 1678, before finding major popularity across the various human cultures, and trickling into the notice of a wider global audience.It can be played from the following place(s):https://tabletopia.com/games/classic-ludo Koi-Koi Spoiler Koi-Koi is a popular two player card game in the Jade State of Yong Ping, especially amongst people of the Oyashiman culture. The game is played with the traditional Oyashiman hanafuda deck, a deck depicting various flora and cultural scenes representing a month. In the game, players attempt to pair cards of the same month together, forming a yaku, or a set, which grants them points. It can be played from the following place(s): https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=koikoi Mahjong Spoiler Mahjong or mah-jongg is a tile-based game that was developed in the 16th century in the Jade State of Yong Ping and has spread throughout the world since the early 17th century. It is commonly played by four players (with some three-player variations found in some Oyashiman and Zhou cultures). The game and its regional variants are widely played throughout the Jade State of Yong Ping and have also become popular in foreign lands. It can be played from the following place(s): https://maque.games/ The game play is as follows: The game is played with a set of 144 tiles based on Li-Wen characters and symbols, although some regional variations may omit some tiles or add unique ones. In most variations, each player begins by receiving 13 tiles. In turn players draw and discard tiles until they complete a legal hand using the 14th drawn tile to form four melds (or sets) and a pair (eye). A player can also win with a small class of special hands. While many variations of mahjong exist, most variations have some basic rules in common including how a piece is drawn and discarded, how a piece is robbed from another player, the use of suits (numbered tiles) and honors (winds and dragons), the basic kinds of melds allowed, how to deal the tiles and the order of play. Beyond these basic common rules, numerous regional variations exist which may have notably different criteria for legal melds and winning hands, radically different scoring systems and even elaborate extra rules. A group of players may introduce their own house rules which can notably change the feel of play. Mancala Spoiler Mancala is an ancient turn-based strategy board game, played with small stones, beans, seeds or bones and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent's pieces. While its origins aren't clear, it's evident it was invented over a millenia ago, and spread from the ancient Orcish clans, who played the game by hollowing out pits in the dirt, and played with their enemy's teeth. It can be played from the following place(s): https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=kalah Mattock Spoiler There is perhaps no game more quintessentially Dwarven than Mattock. Mattock is a strategy board game played by two people, each controlling three miners. Your goal is to mine out a cavern carefully, without causing it to collapse, while trapping the enemy miners so they have no more space to mine. It instills the virtues of readiness and wisdom every Dwarf needs before embarking into the mines, and is a common staple in a Dwarven childhood. It can be played from the following place(s): https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=mattock Nine Men's Morris Spoiler Nine Men's Morris, otherwise known as The Mill Game, is a strategy board game for two players dating to the earliest days of the Holy Orenian Empire. The board consists of a grid with twenty-four intersections or points. Each player has nine pieces, or "men", usually coloured black and white. Players try to form 'mills'—three of their own men lined horizontally or vertically—allowing a player to remove an opponent's man from the game. A player wins by reducing the opponent to two pieces (where they could no longer form mills and thus be unable to win), or by leaving them without a legal move. The game proceeds in three phases: Placing men on vacant points. Moving men to adjacent points. (optional phase) Moving men to any vacant point when the player has been reduced to three men. It can be played from the following place(s): https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=ninemensmorris Savoyard Tarot Spoiler Originating as a means of divination, many of the various types of tarot cards have made their way into card games, as a fifth suit or trump cards. The most common amongst these is certainly Savoyard Tarot, a card game that originated in centuries past in the Orenian Empire, but was refined and given its distinct style in the Principality of Savoy, where it spread from the diviner's tents into the hands of commoners. The game of Savoyard Tarot is a trick-taking strategy tarot card game played by three to five players using a traditional 78-card tarot deck. It can be played from the following place(s): https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=frenchtarot Senet Spoiler Senet is an two player strategy race board game, an ancient game hailing from the earliest days of the Kharajyr culture. In lieu of dice, the players cast sticks to move their pawns across the board's 30 squares, yielding victory to whoever can bear their five pawns off the board first. It can be played from the following place(s):https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=senet Sternhalma Spoiler Sternhalma is a strategy board game of Hanseti origin which can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. The objective is to be first to race all of one's pieces across the hexagram-shaped board into "home"—the corner of the star opposite one's starting corner—using single-step moves or moves that jump over other pieces. The remaining players continue the game to establish second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-, and last-place finishers. The rules are simple, so it finds growing popularity amongst parents and their children. It can be played from the following place(s):https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=chinesecheckers Edited December 10, 2021 by Fermanagh added Mahjong 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaltaMoss 1773 Share Posted December 9, 2021 This is really nice. A good megathread for all those random card games you can challenge people with. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lomiei 1488 Share Posted December 9, 2021 thank you good sir 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadabug2000 3506 Share Posted December 9, 2021 These look super fun! We've been looking into games Yong Ping can do, namely boards that can be set up in the city - this gives some definite ideas! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timer 1434 Share Posted December 9, 2021 "Haeseni Chess" Smh my head, should be Ludo 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MochiHermit 68 Share Posted December 9, 2021 *cough Monopoly *cough cough 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamimiux 174 Share Posted December 9, 2021 The Elfess, demanded Mahjong! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainier 12 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Alright, now waiting for the LotC version of the Game of Life. But really, this is great! Can't wait to play them IRP! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fermanagh 10 Author Share Posted December 10, 2021 18 hours ago, Timer said: "Haeseni Chess" Smh my head, should be Ludo My hands are bound by pre-existing history on the server, but I added an alternate name as Ludo. 17 hours ago, MochiHermit said: *cough Monopoly *cough cough 3 hours ago, rainier said: Alright, now waiting for the LotC version of the Game of Life. But really, this is great! Can't wait to play them IRP! These may be harder to justify as existing on the server with the inclusion of certain immersion breaking components like Buying Electric Companies Visiting Hollywood Movie Premieres Touring Europe But that aside, if I could get/find a good resource to play them online with others I can slap them on the post, with suggestions for what to replace above things with (buying a dwarven mine instead of an electric company for instance). I was struggling to find resources to play these games with others online, but if you find any resources be sure to let me know. 15 hours ago, Mamimiux said: The Elfess, demanded Mahjong! I added Mahjong and the one resource I could find to play it with others online, if you know of any others please let me know! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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