CW: article contains swears
Each one of these items and tokens and sheets is important. Each one of these pieces have been carefully considered by brilliant designers. Their role is clear. If I looked right now, I’m sure every token is explained somewhere in a game manual that unfortunately reads like a VCR repair guide that’s been run through Google Translate eight times. ‘Remember to put the second deck over the initial deck so the last piece from the regular meeples pool does not cross into the irregular meeples pool before the dice rolls a zero’. That’s not an actual line in the manual; I’m too lazy to dig through a board game box that’s larger than the ones I use to move furniture. Someone will get mad at me about this and, honestly, they are right.
I’ve made this realization with multiplayer-only games, but I play solo and have been slowly getting into the big box games I have lying around, it would take forever trying to complete that shit with friends. I learned awhile ago that it’s just too much of a hassle trying to get people together for a regular boardgame night, it’s just not in the cards for me. I play in a weekly rpg/d&d game, but there’s a never a chance in our group to pull people away from rpgs.
First thing I needed to do though was give up on getting anything new, so I’ve almost completely cut myself off from any new kickstarters, I don’t need anything else to add to the pile.