Tabletop Games & Board/Card Games

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Is there a tabletop game fandom you've been trying to get people into, a board game you're trying to get people to play with you, a card game you just love and want to recommend to others? Rec your favorite tabletop, board, and card games and discuss. (Video games, phone games, and other digital games can be recced here.)

Please make a separate comment for each game, using this format:

Title:
Type of game:
Number of players:
Description:
Comments: [what you like about the game, why you think people should play it, any notes you have]

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Old School Essentials [free]

[taichara]

Title: Old School Essentials
Type of Game: tabletop rpg
Number of Players: 2+
Description: OSE is a retroclone of Basic Dungeons & Dragons, given a much easier to read and use layout and with a few bumps smoothed out. It's also available in a free online Systems Reference Document in a nice website, or to download from Drivethrurpg.
Comments: OSE doesn't have all the bells and whistles of more recent editions of D&D -- not that whipping up some homebrew adaptations isn't a thing -- but it's a nice neat system and Necrotic Gnome did a wonderful job on making the rules more intuitive. There's fancier layout + art versions (and expansions to bring in more AD&D materials) but the free SRD is all you need to get started; and, being freely accessible, anyone who wants to run a game in email or on social media or Discord can make sure everyone has the rules at hand, no strings or piratical antics attached.