[Source: I've been designing games as a hobby for the last 10 years)
Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)
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#33The peak board game experience to me is Blood on the Clocktower.
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#34If only playing board games didn't require colocating several friends for a non-trivial span of time... Everyone around me (including myself!) is busy with work, children, partner, running their household, and exercising. How do people do it?
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#36Amazing line.
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#37The reason why is: everybody there has board game ADD! I've been coming for 2 years, but we never play the same game twice; someone always brings the Hot New Game of the moment.
But I find that the first playthough is the least-fun one. That's the one where you're trying to remember what the grey cubes do, and whether they're worth victory points or not. And the game takes twice as long as it says on the box, because everyone needs to reason out their strategy from scratch.
I wish that I could convince my group to pick some set of N games to focus on!
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#38Any particularly complex or sophisticated board games HN likes to play? Curious what kind of games appeal to the HN mindset
18xx, hardcore economic train games. Think war games with money.
Re: Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)
#39If only playing board games didn't require colocating several friends for a non-trivial span of time... Everyone around me (including myself!) is busy with work, children, partner, running their household, and exercising. How do people do it?
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#40Twilight Struggle is my all-time fave although have to mention Diplomacy for its capacity to end relationships and practice war time negotiations and cheating is part of the game (IIRC it was a favorite of Kissinger and JFK)
My main problem with this is that if the other players are not in on this and just minimax, any such game becomes really boring.