Got in a great 7P game of Ares’ The Thing. I was the starting alien. I infected someone and they, in turn, interacted with someone else.

Just as the rescue helicopter was to arrive, I decided to out myself as an alien. That instantly cast doubt on those two other players, one of which was actually human. The humans left him behind and we won. So fun.

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Amen.

I think there are enough tabletop games in the hobbiest game space for everyone. That means there’s a very wide range of games from the simplistic to the complicated. I think if expectations are not kept in check, it can be easy to bite off more than one can chew.

Moreover, everyone’s going to find different things complicated. I’ve been in this hobby for decades. I don’t find Gloomhaven particularly complicated. I very much enjoy hex and chit war games. But god damn, I cannot wrap my head around Oath. There’s just something about it in which the rules don’t click for me.

One of the first things I do when considering a new purchase is head over to BGG and read some reviews. If it looks up my alley, then I’ll give the game a go.

ASL would like a word.

I just buy wider shelves for the wide-box games: https://imgur.com/a/otbkAdm

I don’t think I have the gene which lets me blindly trust someone with a transaction, heh. I research every game I buy. My money is guaranteed to be worth something. I want to know my game will be worth something in exchange.

That said, Volko Ruhnke, Eric M. Lang, Corey Konieczka, Rob Daviau, and Vital Lacerda are some of my favorites who are still active.

Mage Knight. This game threw me in to an unbridaled rage with how much I loathed it. I couldn’t understand why it was rated so highly. So, I went to BGG to see just how so many people could like this awful game.

Turns out everyone plays it cooperatively. Not a soul plays nor recommends the competitive mode; the mode I was playing in.