What do you think of Tafl?
>>96665141I pretend to like it for nationalism reasons but secretly I think it sucks.
>>96665141I think it's really cool, but truth be told I don't play a lot of boardgames. Not because I don't enjoy them, just never comes up with my pals that I don't already prefer to play RPGs with. I think it's real neato though, and my sister in law is big into historical re-enactment, and threatened to get a set to play against me. I hope she does because I'd love to learn. I generally don't believe a game needs to be of infinite depth to be fun, most games are best played when all parties involved are fuzzy on the rules, and learn (and refine) them together. I also like the little guys.On a similar topic I'd like to try Thud as well.>>96665195Interpol notified. You will spend the rest of your miserable days on Svalbard, tagging and monitoring the birds, on a life sentence.
>>96665281>Living in splendorous Svalbard and doing important scientific work with little or no human contact.What part of this is a punishment anon?
>>96665755Insolence too, huh? You will be banned from working 3 days a week to reflect on your misdeeds!
>>96665141I've always wanted to try but never got around to it. I did try out latrunculi once, even won a couple games!I can see why it died out or evolved however.
>>96665141chess, tafl, drafts, basically any kind of simple table game like this is unironically very good and very popular in LARP.It gives you something to do with your hands that creates an ongoing visual scene while you have an in-character conversation. Gives people an IC reason to be watching other than just wanting to see your roleplay. Lets you reinforce the atmosphere of an area. You can pretend that moves were smart even if they weren't.It's not great for the pacing of tabletop games where small timeskips are the norm, but in LARP where you need to fill every waking hour of a weekend in a field full of nerds, it's a good thing to have some kind of game.
>>96666153What's next? Tax-free pay so I can experience the evil of money, in full?
>>96665141Cool game, I still have my copy and play it occasionally. Not surprisingly but most people are pretty bad at it the first few games, but Chess carries over very well and Chess players tend to be the most fun to play against. I like the asymmetrical set up, although I think white is advantaged. I like that the King is a powerful piece (especially compared to Chess) and that the game is objective based. I'm preferential to playing black even though I think its much harder, trying to contain the escaping King is just personally more enjoyable.
>>96669427White being advantaged isn't as much of an issue these days. Used to be extremely advantaged because the rules were based on a mistranslation.In the mistranslated version the king could capture other pieces, however it isn't supposed to be able to capture anything.In the mistranslation the king can escape from any edge, however, the king is supposed to only be able to escape from corners.Those two simple changes pretty dramatically alters the play of the game and makes white noticeable weaker. It is also thought that games used to have a bidding element before play where players would say they could escape in X moves. Whoever bids the lowest plays white and they lose if they don't escape by the bidden number of moves.
>>96669550>based on a mistranslationThe only known nearly complete rule set of a tafl game is tablut. In Smith's translation he doesn't mention the king doing a capture, and the rule as translated today is that the king need only make it to the side to win, just as it was translated by Smith.>the king is supposed to only be able to escape from cornersAs noted, only one mostly complete historical rule set is known and it allows escape from the side. Why are you saying that tafl, which is not one game but a family of games, is being played wrongly by allowing any side not only corner when not only don't you don't know every way tafl games were played historically but you're also contradicting the only explicit historical tafl family rules existing today, and what is this document you claim is mistranslated that reveals the one true way to play? It can't be the rules of tablut.The king must go to the corners in Brandub but that was never the subject of mistranslation and is only a reconstruction .
>>96665141Taft? Kind of a fat president, but he was alright overall, I suppose.
>>96665141I want to learn it but it's a hasl
