Re: What are some these co-operative games?

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Cosmic Encounters is both competitive and co-operative. Each player
tries to win, but most of the strategy is by allying with the attacking
player or against him. Many of the "powers" are also used in a
co-operative way.
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By this definition, Diplomacy is a co-operative game; I've done
temporary
alliances in Risk. ;->=

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Most role playing games that I have been involved in are co-operative.
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Now THIS I have no problem with; I was thinking board games, and most of
the older ones I mentioned fit the RPG group mold.

The Lord of the Rings, you are a party throughout, and while you may cut
off others' options with your moves, if you defeat them TOO severely,
you
can lose yourself to Sauron. (Warning, I only played once, and only two
boards before the big guy stomped us all. VERY limited research.)

While there may be multiple commanders of fleets, or even allied fleets
in
games, I'd say there's nothing inherently co-operative in any of the GZG
games or scenerios, but it wouldn't be difficult to make up your own.
'Dumb' monsters in space or groppo-land would work. Or, perhaps, a
non-battle, such as an FTII evacuate the colonists before a disaster
strikes, with the winner threading a dense asteroid field the most
times...

SFB sure has plenty of ideas in this area. You don't necessarily have to
kill the monster; there's always 'who can get the best sensor readings'.

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