BGG Avatars taken from games
Tom
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Many 'Geeks have taken their avatars from games. Here is a chance to show off your avatar, list the game, and tell us why you chose it! Please post!
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Tom
United States
Seattle
Washington
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I played this game so many times in high school, and always had a soft spot in my heart for the mascot, the Ook, who valiantly tries to warn the crew of the danger they are bringing aboard the Znutar. In the expanded rules, he even gets his own Ook Soot! You can see the origin of the Ook in the comic included with the pdf rules at http://www.sjgames.com/awfulgreen/img/rules.pdf .
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Steve Wilson
United States
Aberdeen
South Dakota
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The Twonky is cursed. It knows exactly what's going on. It knows there is no escape, and it knows that telling the other robots will only make things worse. Twonkys frequently contemplate self-destruction, but refuse to give the computers the satisfaction.
Kinda how I feel about my addiction to board games - with the exeception of the self-destruction thingy...
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howl hollow howl
United States
Oregon
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I like cats.
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shumyum
United States
♒♒♒♒♎♒♒♒♒ sloooowly sinking
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Two castaways are getting ready to jump off their sinking island. One of them is smearing vaseline all over himself. The other one asks, "Why in tarnation are you doing that?" Mr. Vaseline replies, "There's sharks in them thar waters. I need all the speed I can get!" The second one laughs sadly, "I don't care how much goop you smear on yourself, you ain't out-swimming a friggin' shark!" Mr. Vaseline glares at him, "It ain't the shark that I need to out-swim..."
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Dave VanderArk
United States
Coopersville
Michigan
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My Avatar is the Joker card from Frank's Zoo. You can see it in the top row in the picture I chose.
A chamelon can change his coloration to match his environment. In the game you can play the joker card with another card and the joker will change to match the card he's played with. Neat integration of theme and mechancis there, but it's sort of a joke.
I chose this as my Avatar because I love the game. It's on my list of top ten games of all time. Also, I love Doris's artwork (not just in this game, but in all the games she does).
I also like reptiles and lizards--I have two pet bearded dragons and three pet snakes. No chameleons, yet.
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Board Game: Tichu
[Average Rating:7.60 Overall Rank:119]
Jeremy Friesen
United States
Goshen
Indiana
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I really enjoy playing Tichu. In Tichu, I find that I am very good at assisting my partner (hence the dog). Oh, and if I'm not let outside, I tend to make a mess on the kitchen floor.
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Brad Miller
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Mine is the Camel from Through the Desert. Why? Because I believe that Through the Desert is the Greatest Game Ever Designed™
Now this is not to say that this is my favorite game, but the fact is that the game is just the cleanest, most well designed, and most elegant game I can think of.
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Sterling Babcock
United States
Longmont
Colorado
Winkles is here to help!
Please let me know how I can help you.
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Mine is from Mammoth Hunters, because for some reason I have always liked the imagery of a Mammoth, and because I like close up shots of game pieces.
This shot is one that actually occurred at a convention, the first time I played Mammoth Hunters. You see, it is good to have a majority of players in a space with many mammoths. I was fooling around with my guys riding the mammoths, one of them with a club.
Of course, not knowing the game, immediatelly after that pic, _everyone_ raced into that space, and upon scoring, most of my guys died.
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Roborally, one of the first games along with Settlers, to introduce me to the boardgame scene.
This widget is a self portrait, I have a big, fat head with almond eyes....
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Gil Hova
United States
Jersey City
New Jersey
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Ya know the icons on the sides of game boxes, where they list the number of players, playing time, and difficulty?
My icon is the "number of players" icon from the Power Grid box. The icon for minimum age is a picture discouraging one from sticking a finger in an electrical socket.
The same icons were used in the first edition of the game, listed in the Geek as Funkenschlag.
I think FF did the same thing for Finstere Flure, but I don't have the game...
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Brent Easton
Australia
Berry
NSW
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Well, my current avatar is from neither of these two games, but I'll gift 2 GeekGold to the first person who guesses which game my 12(18)/-1 horse comes from!
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David Fair
United States
Damascus
MD
Or maybe PowerGrid?
Yeah, that's me. Handsome devil, I know.
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I look alot like the guy in the picture, although my hair is a little bit lighter brown in color.
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Ray
United States
Carpentersville
Illinois
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I ran Magic Realm for many years at GenCon (mostly 87-97). After a few years I started to be called 'the Magic Realm guy' by people I didn't recognise from years prior.
Of all the MR counters I chose the tremendous troll for a BGG avatar because it most closely matched my BGG ID and email ID of wtrollkin (which in turn is a holdover from a troll character in a PBM game I played in the 90's called Adventurer's Guild)
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Malachi Brown
United States
Hermitage
TN
It's turtles all the way down.
“Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself.”
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Ricochet Robot was the first German game I actually played. It took a little while to really get it, but I love puzzles and I was hooked. It's still one of my favorite games... even if no one will play with me.
I took this picture because there wasn't a pic of the silver robot on the geek yet. I like it as an avatar because the robots are iconic to begin with, and the silver one is uncommon.
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Mark Evans
Canada
Ottawa
Ontario
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Clue FX - I have the image of Col. Mustard, perennial Clue character from the box. Though I greatly love the games I have found through the Geek, I will always have a soft spot for Clue. I'm quite fond of mysteries.
I also have a sub-collection of my collection trying to collect variations on Clue (not lame re-themings!). So I have Great Museum Caper, FX (this is my favorite version of Clue ever), the Card Game, etc etc.
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Board Game: Arkham Horror
[Average Rating:7.32 Overall Rank:237]
[Average Rating:7.32 Unranked]
Michael Fitch
United States
Garner
North Carolina
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It's the mighty Cthulhu chit from "Arkham Horror" - still one of my favorite games after all of these years. I mouse-brushed the '0' Movement off of it for aesthetic reasons. I'm not really sure why I chose It as my avatar...I think it came to me in a dream...All the kids say, "Ia, Cthulhu F'taghn!"
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Markus Bungartz
Germany
Bornheim
NRW
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My favorite Robot. Self painted.
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Duncan Gibson
United States
Will play any game... especially for wine or espresso.
An Australian in Africa.
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Scottish infantry block from Hammer of the Scots, but labelled with my own name.
There's no decent image of HotS's scottish infantry on BGG. This image has Etterick archers, Keith's cavalry and, obviously, the scottish king, Norse raiders and William Wallace.
HotS is one of the best introductory wargames around, IMO. I've also got a chunk of scottish ancestory.
In the past, I've used the AUS unit from Paths of Glory. PoG is one of the best non-introductory wargames, IMO. And I'm Australian.
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Mikko Saari
Finland
http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/ - the best Finnish board game resource!
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Mine is from St. Petersburg. Admiral, I think. It's to celebrate my latest 10-rating game. It's a wonderful game, and I like what Doris Matthäus has done with the art.
My earlier avatar was a skeleton cat from Dia de los Muertos.
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Chester
United States
Temple
Texas
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I'd grown stale on Twister until a very special friend of mine introduced the costume variant. Now...we have regular sessions where we come masked (mine is the Sleestak) and people have to give a password at the door just to get in. It certainly is fun....although I'm not so much a fan of the caramel sauce.
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Lee Williams
United States
Raleigh
North Carolina
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My avatar is from the 125th anniversary edition of Avalon Hill's Gettysburg. I chose it because I have been a wargamer since 1961 (10 years old) when I bought by first wargames: Tactics II and Gettysburg. I now have multiple versions of Gettysburg. The chosen piece also has my name. The reason for the "reduced strength" side being chosen is because it highlights the name.
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My avatar is a pizza plantation from Puerto Rico...
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Mike N.
United States
Brunswick
Maine
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My image is from my homemade version of Traumfabrik. Instead of Reiner I put myself in the game as the -1 actor. The picture is me wearing a wig and acting like Mick Jagger.
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H.J. Haapakoski
Finland
Unspecified
Unspecified
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My avatar is from the Mystery Rummy 4: Al Capone and the Chicago Underworld. I used to like the Mystery Rummy -series alot, but I made a mistake by playing them on a daily basis almost for a year. I've grown a little tired of anything rummy related.
Nevertheless, it's a fine chap on the picture, so I won't go changing my avatar  Not just yet.
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jefF, There are some who call me... DuneKitteh
United States
Wood Dale
Illinois
Dune Kitty really does love you, despite any asshattery.
Useless rollover, booya! Dune Kitty says, "deal with it."
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Mine is actually from two games, BattleBall and Clue (the new edition with the plastic pieces). It features Col. Mustard and Professor Plum looking over a murdered Ms. Scarlet, trying to assess what might have did her in... little do they know...
Sadly, the BGG icons are too small to get the whole picture in, but it can be viewed here.
http://www.midnightmadness.org/jeff/ljimages/battleballclue....
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