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The Advantages of Lifestyle Games
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There was a time when I could give an educated opinion on almost every new board game release. I made a point of playing them all, and ultimately writing a review. But last week I watched from afar as my friends attended BGG.Con, and I realized that I didn’t recognize most of the games. It wasn’t that I hadn’t played them. I wasn’t even aware of their existence. At no point in my “gamer” years have I ever felt so distant from the hobby that once meant so much to me.
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What is funny is seeing folks attempting to sample lifestyle games as though they were just picking up the latest Feld game. The people that drop $500 on starter sets, boosters, terrain, paints, dice, deluxe tokens, and the whole shebang... only to figure out a week later that they aren't really into it, so they dump it on eBay for about a third of what they just shelled out at retail. (As an eBay bargain shopper, god bless those people!)
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Cost is a factor, for a start. They usually can't drop hundreds on games every few weeks or months.
They also, for all their supposed Internet savviness, aren't that into researching stuff let alone looking at forums and things to find out about different games. Often it's circumstantial but I've seen high schoolers just adopt a game and play nothing but that.
The games club where i work might as well be the High Society club.
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It is. Some nights my group will be like"We don't want to learn a new game!" I find that odd because I personally love learning new games most of the time.Gary Sax wrote: Learning games is its own almost separate hobby.
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Part of it is that RPGs are a very good fit for me personally. I generally function well in extemporaneous environments, and I come away from most D&D nights feeling recharged in a way I don't for a lot of board games. The other side of that coin is that RPGs require more focus and preparation, and I'm not always up for that.
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I like learning new games, too, but I think I've reached the point where I'm kind of tapped out and there are a few that I just want to play again on a regular basis now.
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