have you ever felt like. something once consumed your life so utterly. so completely. for so long. that when it disappeared, or you stepped away, it never really went away? It's still with you, and though you can't interact with it or do anything to help its eventual fate, you still want people to know about it? to spread what it once was? It's like. a malignant tumor that will never fucking leave you alone no matter what you do. it's impossible to get out of your mind even years later and maybe you try to find replacements to soothe that gaping hole in your chest, but nothing's ever really the same?
Anyways, you should play mspaint RISK:
The thing about RISK is there's no real way to describe it apart from, it's not anything like the board game it shares a name with. There are some central, recurring components sure (99% of maps have dice rolls, and involve you conquering territory) but apart from that? the sheer beauty in it lies in that you can invent and do literally whatever the fuck you want. And people have! In that archive there are thousands - and i really mean that, last i checked it was over 2000, maybe even closer to 3000 - maps, all made over the course of over a decade, with a shit ton of varying rules and rulesets, covering literally every IP and location imaginable;
the explainer document i gave above is an introduction, but it's genuinely only the top of the iceberg. But noone's playing it, right. the community is completely, and utterly, dead. And that's fucking insane to me because there's so much here! Like can you see why I'm going insane over this? I mean that literally! There are exactly ZERO players. I am the one carrying this burden! Like some fucking last of their species type shit!
I'm not asking you to love it. I'm not even necessarily asking you to play it, if you don't want to. It's a game that really requires a large friend group to play out properly and I can understand that not everyone has that - I don't, anymore, for one - but I'm just asking you to understand the toll that this game has taken on me. I don't think I can ever rest easy until the community is somehow reestablished again, hopefully a bit less racist than the first time. I will carry this burden to my grave.
It would be nice if you played it though, and told me of your experiences. And maybe, if you did so, shared this post too.
It really would.
I firmly believe that it's really fucking fun, and I'd like to share the experience I had during my teens, in some capacity, even if it can never really be replicated, with other people.
If you have any questions about anything whatsoever regarding this game please please please tell me I'd genuinely love nothing more than to answer anything on your mind, or if you have any concerns, or whatever - doesn't matter. I'm open to anything you want