Would you ever play an illegal board game?
>>44001301
D&D has been technically illegal in the town I grew up in since 1979. So yes.
>>44001301
What kinds of laws are being broken by this board game?
>>44001341
Bruh, what kind of town do you live in? And how the hell did that happen?
>>44001301
Yes
Nothing personnel, kid
>>44001347
A lack of racial and tranny diversity.
>>44001357
Small country town. The city's lawmakers are all housewives.
>>44001371
god dammit not even /tg/ can escape this shit
>>44001301
What? Why would a board game ever be illegal?
Dude I'm not to need some examples of "illegal board games" for reference.
Are are we talking pic related? Klux Klux Kandy Land? Throw me a bone here.
>>44001474
You have to use the body parts of a recently sacrificed person in order to effectively play it?
>>44001474
Presumed associations with human sacrifice, cults, and satanism because of "Satanic Panic" Christian mentality and small town politics run entirely by religious fundamentalists.
That or maybe it funds terrorism or something.
>>44001474
>Why would a board game ever be illegal?
CP?
Mocking the King?
Blasphemy?
Gambling requirements?
Rules require the losers to kill themselves?
>>44001301
>>44001301
>>44001301
>illegal board game?
What kind of shit are you playing?
Like, I remember there's a variant of chutes and ladders where instead of rolling a die to move, you play Russian roulette with how many spaces you move being how many times you have to pull the trigger.
>>44001301
Chances are, no. Most often, things that are banned aren't great works (though in some cases, yes), and instead banned because of some kind of sensationalism or it deals with subjects that are controversial to some group which has legislative power.
If the game was good? Sure, I might give it a go if it was easily accessible enough. If it sucks? I probably wouldn't bother.
>>44001301
TRIGGERED
Everyone ITT talking about what makes a board game illegal but I want EXAMPLES damnit
>>44001301
I don't know about "illegal", but I would play some rare/hard to find games.
I don't remeber the name, but there is one game that there is only one copy that floats between muse a or something. It starts by the players breaking a window then you try to move cubes into train cars. The big reveal at the end is that it's about the holocaust.
There is also one game that is supposed to be the best and most influential game for kings of something? People have to make there own boards and pieces and stuff. It's about placing buildings or something. I saw some of a documentary about it but it didn't make sense and they never explained the game so I stopped.
I don't know the name of either of these things so if you could help me out it would be appreciated.
>>44001390
I call bullshit. Source?
>>44001719
>>44001301
lel
>>44001444
>god dammit not even /tg/ can escape this shit
Even or especially? The self-flagellation of some content producers is really sad.
>>44003866
>muse a
Museums, being on my phone sucks
D&D on 60 minutes news show from 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN_nuxOhT2s
I try not to host pirated games at conventions.
This has the side effect that games which offer free rules for download get hosted at conventions more.
>>44001301
Why?Do you have one?
I remember some kids game from like the 50s, a kiddy nuclear testing kit. The thing being, it came with real radioactive materials.
>playing board games
I'm an adult
>>44003866
>I don't remeber the name, but there is one game that there is only one copy that floats between muse a or something. It starts by the players breaking a window then you try to move cubes into train cars. The big reveal at the end is that it's about the holocaust.
http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/11/brenda-romero-train-board-game-holocaust/
I don't think it was made as a marketable game, but yeah, there's an article about it
>>44004082
You're on the wrong board, buddy.
>>44001301
Of course.
I would play the most dangerous game.
>>44004074
>>44004082
>Being this eager to prove your maturity
I believe that you're an adult, but I refuse to believe that you've been an adult for more than a year or two.
What would a /good/ illegal game look like?
I mean it would be easy to get a game banned by violating sensibilities. But what would get it on the same list as the Anarchist's Cookbook? (Besides including the Anarchist's Cookbook...)
>Mechanics resolved not by rolling dice but picking locks
>Only documentation and forum on hidden service
>Real life Bitcoin stakes
>Fluff uses names and real rumors about politicians and heads of finance and industry
>...
Would you make such a game, /tg/?
>>44004275
It teaches you things that are highly classified by a government or military (Ideally one that is allied to a lot of other states so that it gets banned in as many countries as possible) or things that can really only be used illegally (Such as correct recipes for explosives and chemical weapons) and/or actively requires you to break one or more laws as part of the core game mechanic.
>>44004401
But which laws are ridiculous enough to break? I wouldn't consider the ban on explosives to be one.
Copyright wouldn't make it illegal, just open it to civil litigation.
Including some Snowden leaks could help. But it's a lot and it's hard to make sense of it. Not exactly a game mechanic.
>>44003959
I'd believe it that's all sorts of silly unenforceable and non-enforced laws in the UK thought far older than that.
For example you can kill a Scotsman with a bow in York and be let off for the murder, TECHNICALLY, and either across the country or in one specific part you shouldn't eat pies on a certain day Sunday I think.
>>44003959
>he never lived in the South East United States.
Their are still laws in towns and cities that ban D&D specifically, or anything considered "Morally reprehensible." Just loon at blue laws, I believe they are called.
>>44004595
My city still has the death penalty. But it will never apply since criminal court is at state level.
>>44004125
Shouldn't you be playing pretend right now?
>>44004595
I've read that from the early 19th Century to 1976, it was law in the UK that taxi drivers had to carry a bale of hay in their taxis.
>>44005229
Although that was only in London
>>44004595
>I'd believe it that's all sorts of silly unenforceable and non-enforced laws in the UK thought far older than that.
There's still active law against witchcraft and sorcery - yes, Harry Potter should have gotten arrested in the book.
>>44005260
Pff muggle laws
>>44004100
Okay thanks. Do you know anything about the other game I mentioned though? It's been driving me nuts for the last few days.
>>44004595
>Scotsman in York/Welshman in Chester
Nope, no such law. Repealed years ago.
>>44005229
>>44005250
They technically had to have "food for the horse", because cabs started as hansom cabs which were horse-drawn. When cabs became petrol-driven, having a fuel-tank became the modern equivalent. No-one was ever prosecuted for not having hay, and the law was repealed.
Interestingly though, I think the law against cabs carrying someone with any communicable disease (including the common cold) is still on the books.
>>44005260
Citation needed, I'm aware of no such law. Fraudulent Mediums Act, sure, but no law against wichcraft or sorcery in E&W. Maybe in Scotland, but that's a different legal system.
>>44001341
Paradise?
>oh but pathfinder is still legal
FUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKK
I think the Ouija board is illegal in some places because the local police are tired of daemonic incursions.
>>44004118
This shit is straight out of Fallout.
>>44005260
Actually, I think one of the little supplementary books (the one about quidditch, I think) briefly mentioned that those laws were left on the books so that people who break the masquerade are still technically criminals, even if they didn't break a "real" law.
Prisons in my state still ban D&D for "inciting fantasies of escape."
They also say the dice can be used to gamble, and at least once claimed that a die was made into the point of a shiv.1d4 damage
>>44005471
>Nope, no such law. Repealed years ago.
Oh that's disappointing, they sure liked to talk about it when I was there about six years ago.
>>44005628
Yeah, it's one of those lovely olde-worlde-looke-atte-oure-historic-towne things people keep telling their kids and grandkids. Like beating your wife with a rod no thicker than your thumb, and common law marriage.
>>44001301
Do you...Cataan?
>>44004016
TIL the 60 minutes guy always has had and always will have the same voice in my mind.
>>44005588
BY GOD!
FROM NOW ON ALL SHIV'S SHALL DO 1d4 DAMAGE!
SO SAYS QUAD DUBS!
>>44003959
It's still illegal to be ugly on broadway in New York.
>>44005588
>>44005588
checked
>>44005588
>>44005588
>>44009370
What's to stop you from making your own shitty role play system involving a coin?
>>44004118
dangerous radioactive materials aside why are todays childrens science kits so shit.
>>44004735
hes doing the next best thing talking about playing pretend
YOU KNOW THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF THIS BOARD YOU GIGANTIC FUCKING FAGOT
>>44005516
that and the bestiary were interesting books
>>44007141
>>44007714
fucking getfagots
>>44010179
Because everything remotely dangerous has been stripped out over the decades. Science is about exploration, which can be messy and dangerous, and parents are terrified of anything dangerous around their kids.
>>44001301
Does Russian Roulette counts?
>>44010470
Um, that gun is a...you know what, sure I'll play as long as I go second.
>>44010206
>bait that obvious
>>44010717
Dibs on last!
>>44010470
>>44010717
That's Polish Roulette, not Russian Roulette.
>>44011066
Red always wins?
>>44011082
Autoloaders are to Polish Roulette as revolvers are to Russian Roulette.
>>44010273
I'm surprised the dubs games aren't enjoyed across all boards, especially here. Why is that?
>>44004595
One thing I heard about was how while the slave trade was banned in the UK, and the slaves were granted emancipation, slavery was never made illegal until 2010.
In my particular state, it's required but not enforced for an electrician to be necessary to change lightbulbs.
>>44011145
Well, speaking of rules, dubs aren't allowed outside certain boards.
>>44004118
dang it, what could you do with this?
>>44011470
Get super powers
>>44011470
Well...
>>44001390
>The city's lawmakers are all housewives
Is it also illegal to leave the seat up, or criticize a woman's driving?
>>44011942
The poster boy for why "don't try this at home" is a household phrase.
>>44012254
Well, he is a special kind of nut.
When his shed came to the authorities' attention, his mom threw out most of his materials - in the household trash! She was afraid he'd get in trouble...
Killed herself couple of years later. So that was the woman who raised him.
He refused diagnosis after the incident, still does. But when he was caught 8 years ago stealing smoke detectors for their radioactive material (still at it!), his mugshot showed drastic signs of of radiation poisoning.
>>44001301
Yes.
Laws are for idiots who can't think for themselves. They are for kids, and those who can't morals+ethics, those who have misaligned chakras. They are how the Tyrant enslaves.
>>44012432
Anon, this may be /tg/ but this isn't that kind of roleplaying thread
>>44012360
Dammit, man. A-Grade super villain material
>>44009750
Sounds stupid, but that sounds like Justice Hobo's without all the fun of being and or getting drunk.
>>44001301
Does that even exist? How and why could a board game become illegal?
Also, yes.
>>44009370
I remember when this comic was still good.
>>44004016
Would you play it /tg/?
>>44011942
>>44012360
oh fuck, I've heard of this guy. I wonder what his endgame goal was if he even had one.
>>44014184
Obviously, duh.
>>44009750
Functionally nothing, and for that matter, nerds build their own rpg systems if they're in a safe enough prison for that kind of behavior.
Very few prisons ban cards, and it's a rather easy task to build a system with them.
>>44003973
The psychosis some people go into at the thought of non-___ people being visible is sad. They'll go to ridiculous lengths to explain how they're being oppressed by seeing homosexuals or whatever their latest grudge is.
>>44015229
>The psychosis some people go into at the thought of non-___ people being visible is sad. They'll go to ridiculous lengths to explain how they're being oppressed by seeing homosexuals or whatever their latest grudge is.
As a homosexual myself I can honestly empathize. The ratrace for representation is incredibly cringy at times and there is a difference between not being told that I'm some kind of evil freak and having everywhere go wink wink nudge nudge WE PANDER TO YOU COME BUY OUR SOULLESS PRODUCT.
I can't STAND that shit.
>>44015338
In my perspective I find all the fuss on both sides so strange. People take their ideas on peg and slot interactions really seriously. I don't see what's wrong with why not being picky about what kinds of slot i put my peg into and vice versa, but on the other hand I don't see the need to fight a crusade over it. I think if people want diversity or whatever the way to do it isn't LOOK AT HOW PROGRESSIVE WE ARE BUY OUR SHIT and more 'Hey, we made a game and we and the people who play it are chill, wanna play?'
>>44015338
I'm glad that it seems insane from your point of view too.
>>44001301
As long as I don't have to commit more crimes by playing, yes.
>>44001523
But at least in the U.S. laws like that would never actually hold up in court. Unless they're 100% unenforced, I'd have trouble believing no one ever got around to challenging laws like this if they were ever even passed.
>>44011235
The owning of slaves was never considered legal in the UK, we just never had a specific law stating that. The Human Rights Act of 1998 changed that.
>>44004100
Looked at the article, looked at her twitter. Looks like a Jewess, and an angry one at that. For all her talk about how 'people who discovered that the people they were shipping were destined to Auschwitz they were immediatley horrified and started subverting the game and breaking the rules etc to save more plastic humans' I doubt that everyone that played the game would be so married between the reality of playing a fucking board game and the alleged horror of discovering you were (according to the author) complicit with the Holocaust.
Its hard enough for me to feel like some kind of industrial capitalist in Monopoly, Power Grid or Ticket to Ride, to try to elicit a base emotion response of tears, horror or hatred. Depite what it may try to represent its still a fucking game, beyond its pretentions. Its plastic, cards and dice and people huddled around a table, not the attempted genocide of a people despite what the game deisgner may claim.
I don't know what I'm rambling about, I'm drunk, but fuck that kike, and her game.
>>44015609
Consider the setting. People are shown this /unique/ game by the author in some kind of hip cultural society situation. She's looking at you turning the card over that says Auschwitz. There's a lot of pressure, and it isn't because the game has a gritty scenario. It's a cheap version of No John You Are The Monsters. But put into a context completely devoid of taste or decency. She's basically tricking people into spending an hour telling her how special she is for what her parents had to go through. Bonus points if you cry.
The holocaust was phenomenally shitty. No way around it. So is Gaza. So is Afghanistan. So is Guantanamo. Be a person today. Don't cash in on your victim demographic.
>>44015338
>>44015444
I wait in utter dread for the day that they decide to "save" us poly people. Eventually trans rights is going to become too mainstream for them and they'll get bored, just like they did with gay people, and when that day comes they're going to choose polyamory as their next crusade. We're already getting the very first rumblings of it right now. After that, I suppose I'm in for 2 or 3 years of hamfisted pandering from shitty webcomics, followed by another 5 or 6 years of hamfisted pandering from the mainstream media, assuming I don't kill myself when the embarrassment I feel on their behalf becomes too much to bear.
>>44015718
>poly pandering
That's going to be hilarious. Not.
>>44015473
>I'm glad that it seems insane from your point of view too.
I'm a degenerate, not shameless.Hell, apart from the people I'm into I'd probably qualify as fairly conservative. Which get awkward when you either agree with people who hate you or hate people who consider you some kind of next level being because of something you were born with.
>>44015444
>I think if people want diversity or whatever the way to do it isn't LOOK AT HOW PROGRESSIVE WE ARE BUY OUR SHIT and more 'Hey, we made a game and we and the people who play it are chill, wanna play?'
Which isn't how it's being done, that's what people complain about.
Let's give an example from World of Darkness because that's a fairly 'progressive' game line.
Good inclusivity = an example text about a bisexual vampire and his buddy drifting apart.
Bad example = Demon: The Descent's sidebars snidely berating players OOC about not liking artificial gender pronouns and Mpreg.
It's about nuance, and that's what I miss a lot.
>>44015919
>violating sensibilities
Cheap shot.
>>44015875
WoTC Examples.
Good: That 5e Paragraph. I know it caused butthurt but it was pretty restrained.
Bad: All the shit I keep hearing about M:TG and some of the art getting censored.
>>44012360
>his mugshot showed drastic signs of of radiation poisoning
looks more like meth scars.
>>44015875
>That's going to be hilarious. Not.
Look up Kimchi Cuddles. I dare you. If you want a vision of the future, imagine awful, preachy webcomics smashing in a human skull- forever.
>>44016013
>Look up Kimchi Cuddles. I dare you. If you want a vision of the future, imagine awful, preachy webcomics smashing in a human skull- forever.
>webcomic
>political webcomic
I am weak.
>>44015956
>Bad: All the shit I keep hearing about M:TG and some of the art getting censored.
MtG is cringeworthy in their shit.
>Good: That 5e Paragraph. I know it caused butthurt but it was pretty restrained.
It was weird, but nowhere near the WoD preachiness, yes.
>>44001301
Depends on why it is illegal and what it does.
>>44015338
i'm really into the american media but here in europe its sounds the same, we've became a marketting target or an assert ("faire valoir") put in front to show how progressive they are but rarely included. the trans question is still taboo here tho
>>44016251
*not really into
god i'm tired
>>44016130
>Depends on why it is illegal and what it does.
It's addicting. Pretty sure the nature of the Games of Divinity in Exalted is never specified so I've always assumed they're Crack Chess.
>>44005588
My buddy was in prison and told me D&D and anything like it was banned there, but he and some guys would carve figurines out of soap or plastic, use paper charts for die rolls and play it on the sly or with guards who didn't give a fuck.
>>44015718
Polyamory is fucking disgusting and wrong on the most basic of levels.
Poly is GREEK for many and Amor is LATIN for love. The bastardized etymology of polyamory is a fucking abomination I cannot stand for.
>>44016403
Fuck you. Polyamory is natural and honestly I think it's beautiful. It represents the varied history of English's origin, England, and to an extent that of Europe as a whole; the infusion of Latin and Greek languages as a word to be used in a thirdarguablyGermanic one is an exquisite example of the ways that languages continuously evolve and change with the tides of history. It is the natural result of conditions found in England, and nothing you can say will change that; you may as well be angry that the mountains pierce so high into the heavens.
>>44016439
Polyamory is to normal relationships what a high school girl's social group is to actual friendship. It may be fun for the moment and it's definitely better than people outright lying about the normal thing (marriages build on mistrust and grudging duty). Ultimately though it isn't the same level of trust or implicit support as the real model.
>>44016504
Who gives a fuck about relationships? We're talking about language here you retard.
>>44016504
I don't see anything about etymology in *your* post...
>>44016521
I thought it was a given that any Hellenistic corruption of Latin was the worst sort of decadence. If you allow that it's only one more step before you're wearing makeup and performing submissive sex acts with other men.
>>44015338
kill yourself
>>44017398
>kill yourself
Naw bro.
>>44015718
>I wait in utter dread for the day that they decide to "save" us poly people. Eventually trans rights is going to become too mainstream for them and they'll get bored, just like they did with gay people, and when that day comes they're going to choose polyamory as their next crusade. We're already getting the very first rumblings of it right now. After that, I suppose I'm in for 2 or 3 years of hamfisted pandering from shitty webcomics, followed by another 5 or 6 years of hamfisted pandering from the mainstream media, assuming I don't kill myself when the embarrassment I feel on their behalf becomes too much to bear.#
I wonder when the SocJus crowd will turn to pedo apologism not out of conviction but because they feel like they gotta be more OUT THERE and RADICAL.
>>44017435
I feel sorry for (legitimate) paedophiles. I don't really know what can be done for them, though. At least, until we truly enter the waifu age.
>>44017422
kill yourself
>>44017443
>I don't really know what can be done for them, though.
Apparently some therapists say that an adjustement can be done by temporarily suppressing the sex drive, having them enter a platonic relationship with an adult and then getting them off the meds, but that seems like Pray The Gay Away-era hocupocus and money making to me.
>>44001301
i played a game of srtip poker that led to sodomy, which is technically illegal here
>>44017482
The strip poker or the sodomy?
>>44017490
fancy ass-sex
>>44017443
>I feel sorry for (legitimate) paedophiles. I don't really know what can be done for them, though. At least, until we truly enter the waifu age.
Shoot them.
>>44017524
Whoa, you're so cool and edgy, man.
>>44017540
Nice /v/ meme, /b/ro.
Upvoted.
>>44017467
Castration would be a simple, cheap, and effective solution.
>>44017524
chem-gelding works well enough
>>44001474
>What? Why would a board game ever be illegal?
I'll just leave pic related here...
>>44018993
Same for transexuals, really.
>>44004100
i want to play that game so badly.
>>44001341
some kinda nerdy footloose?
>>44019251
actually, not really
>>44019005
"Chemical castration" is one of the worst dysphemisms I can think of. All it means is that they give you meds to suppress your sex drive, but it makes it sound like they're dipping your balls in battery acid.
>>44019251
Half of 'em.
>>44001341
That's some fucking footloose shit
>>44001301
It depends anon, Do you Catan?
>>44014184
as long as I'm laying it with some bitch who wont pussy out the moment shit starts to go down
>>44001719
Yeah, she's got that pistol way too far forward.
>>44010470
Least you're not using 9mm.
>>44001301
I read that as "illegal border game"
>>44015716
I think it sounds cool, but honestly, I think I'd just laugh when I read the sign. I'm probably too young.
Like, that's pretty nifty, but I wouldn't think more about it. Most of the nazis were just doing their jobs, it's not like they enjoyed sending people to their certain death.
>>44004100
While I think it's a good idea and well executed:
>Some kids were playing it while drunk and being disrespectful. Romero stopped them.
Come the fuck on. They weren't getting emotional and blubbery playing your game? They made a joke of the situation or had a laugh and your taking it away from them? Fuck off.
Jesus they would chase me and my friends out with pitchforks.
>>44016439
Miscegenation is badwrongfun, son.
>>44024312
Some people.
I've got an Italian friend who won't play Bang with us because we all go full stereotype, but she not even she tries to stop us mid-game. Even when I go full blue-collar Irish Catholic family guinea eyetie mode.
>>44024542
What the fuck who doesn't want to play Bang?
People should get over themselves. I myself am an Irish Catholic and that sounds fucking hilarious.
>>44001557
jesus christ comrade
>>44015714
It's because you're autistic.
That's why you don't have emotional responses to imagination driven media.
It's because you are legitimately autistic.
>>44024169
Man, I still can't find that scene. Some people claim that the dialogue is real but the caps are wrong, others say that it's entirely fake, and nobody can point to the actual episode that it comes from and/or that the screencaps were pulled from.
>>44024595
She's Italian, I assume it gets grating quickly. Like if a black man were constantly bombarded by Uncle Ruckus, B from Naruto tier rapping, and watermelons.
>>44007143
As it should be, I paid good money to come to this stinking shithole to see a girl in green face paint sing my dick off, I don't want to also have to gouge my eyes out on the return tripmarcie dodd a cute
>>44019998
>All it means is that they give you meds to suppress your sex drive
Fucking Belldandy
>>44001474
I would consider sexual reproduction the original traditional game (combat, social interaction, waifus, what more could you want?).
So yes, I see how this game in particular could be conducted illegally.raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaape
>>44024845
Episode is Grandpa's Bad Bug.
Dialogue is from King of the Hill.
>>44009750
>coin
throw X coins, sum all taills, re-roll if only heads = equivalent of 1dX
>>44024990
>Subtle Racism.gif
I'm not seeing the subtlety.
>>44026632
I'm pretty sure that would create a probability curve, skewing results to the median compared to the flat probability of a single die.
I can't get AnyDice to simulate it properly and I'm too tired to work out the actual probabilities, so I may be wrong though
>>44027128
The subtleness is in the sarcasm
>>44027128
Hint: Look at his father.
