It's always vaguely strange to hear someone enthused about a new trend that you're already in the middle of.
We've been doing Game Days (focusing on board games) for at least a couple of years now. It was a reaction to our increasing inability to get Role Playing Games going or sustained in our social circle — and to the many cool board games out there that so many of us owned (and, via Kickstarter campaigns, kept adding to).
"Betrayal at House on the Hill" is a pretty regular fixture for those Game Days, right behind "Settlers of Catan" and about as frequently pulled out as "Password." It's always a lot of fun.
But having folk over to play games is always a lot of fun, too.
Betrayal at House on the Hill and the Golden Age of Board Games
“One of your fellow explorers stoops, picks up a scrap of paper from the floor, then mumbles something you can’t quite hear,” a stranger sitting at the tab
Gotten Thunderbirds to the table yet?
My son and his friends have gotten into several lately.