I remember one time being over a friend's house, he had some board game they just dug out of the back of a closet somewhere and we were thinking about playing it. Can't remember which game it was, I want to say it may have been Diplomacy, but I'm not 100% on that.

We open it up, looked like all the pieces were there, and we started reading through what we thought was the rulebook, it was a fairly beefy book.

Then we realized that what we had wasn't in fact the rulebook, but some sort of secondary book that referenced the full rulebook, which it called "intimidating"

On reading that, we decided that this game was just too much trouble for how much effort we were willing to put in that day.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like Axis and Allies.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Nah axos and allies is basically risk with a few extra rules. It was probably some sort of daunting hex wargame thingy.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

just one thick book for rules? laughs in frosthaven

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Implied by "Cones of Dunshire"