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What future shelf toads are you thinking about?
As y'all ALSO know I am endlessly tempted by big games that are far too clever to ever get played without a like-minded group---just look at my collection on BGG. I often buy those games knowing they will be toads. To be clear, I don't carry around much guilt about it, tbh, so this thread isn't really about that, there are more than enough threads on TWBGs about streamlining your collection.
Instead, I wanted to start a therapeutic thread about the toads you're resisting or really wanting to play on your shelf but can't. I'll start.
I won't buy it, but I just watched a Let's Play of Millennium Blades and it is just such a cool fucking idea. I know it has gotten solid praise around here too from folks I like. Even conceptually it is extremely meta and interesting. Playing the meta game of CCGs with niche rare cards, a local group meta, etc without actually doing it is so cool! It is just the sort of economic/interaction game with a markets, tons of cards, timed turns, etc that get my shelf toad loving attention.
I'm.hugely attracted to games that require you to satisfice and never allow you the time, space or options to perfect anything.
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I don't love a lot of efficiency games, but there are several that work for me, and I think Through The Ages might just be one. It's not the only civ game I want in my life, but it sits comfortably in my collection alongside Clash of Cultures and Innovation.
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Besides the Dune reprint I don't think I have any upcoming games that look particularly toad-y, but my list of new games to buy this year is pretty darn short.
List of hard-to-get-played: Millennium Blades, Dogs of War, Darkness Comes Rattling, The Borderlands (Gearworld). That last one is particularly shameful because I haven't even played it once yet. The rest are just amazing games that we don't play enough, though my wife was talking about breaking out Darkness last weekend.
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I actually just traded the US Civil War (big ole wargame, beautiful, will never play it, not sure I actually like it) for Churchill (big ole political game, charmingly homely, will never play it, pretty sure I'd like it). Maybe I'll break it out and do a solo game vs. bots when I'm grading papers.
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I'm really excited by GMT's Gandhi and I'm absolutely going to get it and I'm absolutely going to play it, even if it's only solo. But the fact is that unless it's on the low end for complexity and playtime for a COIN game - and signs are it isn't - it won't hit the table after I've written it up.
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Matt Thrower wrote: I'm really excited by GMT's Gandhi and I'm absolutely going to get it and I'm absolutely going to play it, even if it's only solo. But the fact is that unless it's on the low end for complexity and playtime for a COIN game - and signs are it isn't - it won't hit the table after I've written it up.
Oh Matt, if only there weren't an ocean betwixt us, I would play the ever-loving hell out of this with you.
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Be as subjective as you want in what's a potential toad, there's no dictionary definition.
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But eventually, after much soul searching, I was willing to overcome the siren song of that inevitable shelf toad. There's just no way that would ever get played at my house.
Instead, I walked out with a copy of The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker. Hope it's good!
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I would love to try out Millennium Blades. I've heard good things about it and the theme of the game really draws me. Sadly, I have no money for it and it doesn't seem anyone in my club owns a copy.Gary Sax wrote: I won't buy it, but I just watched a Let's Play of Millennium Blades and it is just such a cool fucking idea. I know it has gotten solid praise around here too from folks I like. Even conceptually it is extremely meta and interesting. Playing the meta game of CCGs with niche rare cards, a local group meta, etc without actually doing it is so cool! It is just the sort of economic/interaction game with a markets, tons of cards, timed turns, etc that get my shelf toad loving attention.
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