I have a metric ton of board war games and role playing games but unfortunately, all my gameing friends moved away a long time ago and the wife and the rest of the family around here aren't gamers beyond Monopoly (blech !)
Therefore, I never get to play games outside the computer.
Probably the closest thing to a game I play outside the computer would be ARG's (Alternate Reality Games). You use a computer to play them, but unlike a video game, the game occurs in real life all around you in real time. The people running the game (The puppet masters) organize everything so that you and the other players actually feel like you've really stumbled accross some kind of conspiracy plot or something. This will involve everything from finding and decrypting real codes hidden everywhere (From websites to actual physical items), interactions with game characters (If the plot demands it, you can end up having to go meet a game character face to face). You can get phone calls, emails, etc... from characters in the game.
Once one of us players were sent an email with a coded message in it. We deciphered it to read three numbers, a dot, two numbers, two letters, and an address. We checked the address and it turned out to be a library an hour or so away from me and we figured the rest of the code was Dewey Decimal Sytem. So I went to the library, hunted down the book, and found a slip of paper with an important coded document for us to work on....
Ultimately, we saved Seatle from being blown up by a nuclear device.
I havn't played a good ARG in a while now.. but it's something I'm considering getting back into. The best one I ever played was called AWARE. The Puppet Masters actually set it up so that multiple groups of players ended up working against each other. It was briliant. My group even went so far as to set up a fake website, leaked it to the other groups, and then filled the site up with information that would send them in the wrong directions.
