"Gaming VD?" Topic

Valentine's Day, that is. Or, more generally, do you game on holidays?

0) Nope, never … :(
1) One or two holidays a year (name)
M) Theme games on (a few) military related holidays
!) Every day off and gathering is game day!

For me it's M and !

Every year we do a Cinco de Mayo game and a Christmas Truce Germans vs. British pick up soccer game (I am trying to get good unarmed WWI minis for this) and, yes, an occasional VD Massacre (or other gangster related dust up).

And pretty much any holiday where the gathering is chez moi, there will be boardgaming and wargaming. And most likely late-night euchre or whist.

Wow and here I thought the topic was gaming venereal disease.

I would say my answer falls between 1 and M. We always have a Halloween Board game playing Touch of Evil with all the supplemental boards and characters. Always a blast.

Of course Siege of August always falls during the MLK long weekend (for us government workers) so I suppose that counts. I've always wanted to do a Christmas or winter themed game during that time of year.

Basically when most of the gang can be off for a long weekend due to a holiday and we are not all heading for other parts of the country, yes we try to game around holidays.

Not sure what you would do for Valentine's Day other than perhaps a certain 1920's Chicago Gangster event.

I've tried to always do a D-Day game on or close to June 6th. So somewhere between 0 and M

"Wow and here I thought the topic was gaming venereal disease"

Flies spread disease. Keep yours closed.

Ok, my first thought was a short arm inspection, like I had in the Navy.

Sorry just give me a moment while my mind lifts itself out of the gutter and attempts to reexamine the actual topic …hmmm

Yes definitely a holiday gaming family but Valentine's (or Halloween as I call it to the annoyance of my wife) is an exception. My wife only tolerates board gaming especially mini based. She's a traditional regular card game person so maybe a game of strip poker. (the loser of the hand dresses and prepares one of our many many kids for bed) Yes it's really that exciting.

I'm Irish and living abroad so St Patrick's always brings out the patriot in me so I sometimes take out SAGA and let the Warrior Celt's get their asses handed to them by some casual Viking holiday makers (I really need to make some House rules for that game)

Easter will bring out lots of family board games. Some mini based.

Summer always brings out the Fantasy RPGer in me. Long summers as a kid at our lake cabin reading fantasy or writing scenarios to GM for my Warhammer buds has made the summer a time of high Fantasy.

Autumn begins to bring WW2 to mind. Halloween (not St Valentines) is Call of Cthulhu or Mansions of Madness time. Christmas time yes lots of gaming with whatever Santa brought.

Valentines Day ; probation Gang warfare and massacres

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There is actually an excellent renaissance game in which a player may give his opponent a card called "ill-chosen bedfellows." It lowers the resolve of one of the enemy's units for the duration of the game.

When I saw the heading, I thought maybe other rules writers were doing something similar.