Actually if you meet with people who are interested in rp and the like,
board and card games are as much known about and played as computer games.
My brother regularly plays both wii party games and fantasy board games like
Talisman with his friends, and if you go to sites like dwarfstar games, you
will see many are still being produced, indeed with access to printers often
by hobby developers.
And this is aside from the the rather more specialist interest in
collectable card games, ccgs, such as roar deal, Ufs, Yugio, and magic the
gathering, or miniture based war games like Warhammer 40 K or battletech.
Indeed the recent 4th eddition of d&D has a combat system based on table and
minitures and is at least partly a war game in it's own right, albeit one
with full rp mechanics.
Of course, you wouldn't sit down to do something as complex as battletech
with your family, but there are plenty of more low key games around of the
sort my brother plays, which often have a very fun theme.
For example, I recently heard of a game called monster city battle, where
basically each player has a giant monster such as godzilla, King Kong or a
huge robot, and the object of the game is to see who can destroy most of the
city, while not being beaten up by the other monsters. it played as a
slightly tactical but very crazy game with some rules like Draughts,
(checkers), but also some use of dice for calculating damage and the like,
and sounded pretty awsome!
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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