Yeah, so buying less… or staying below 200 games didn‘t happen. I failed although I do seem to have somehow managed to start limiting myself since November. I did finish some „easy“ auto-fill 10x10 challenges—with lots of solos as anticipated.
So for collection goals, my hope for 2022 is that I keep up the less-buying and squeeze the collection back below 200. With the way things have been going since November, I have hopes that I‘ll do better this time.
My secondary collection goal is to reduce my number of unplayed games. I do not think one year will be enough to get everything owned or preordered played (77 games are in that category). But I would be extremely happy if I got 50 of those one the table at least once.
As for goals for playing games: besides the unplayed games I want to play, I have also created a couple challenges that I posted about in the 10x10 thread. One for games that I hope my partner will participate in (plus whoever finds their way to our table) and one for solo gaming.
Mostly, I just hope that I get to play games with my friends in person more than in the last 2 years.
Yeah, not so much a “goal” because it isn’t really in my control… (and as far as it is I’m still going to prioritise wife’s and my health over my own enjoyment).
But I do intend to put a bit more effort into selling the games I don’t want any more.
I got into Keyforge with my wife a little bit, friends lend us The Crew and we played that a lot with another friend when we met for dinner every week.
And now he gave us The Crew 2 as a Christmas present
Still… when I look through my board games, I find way too many unplayed ones. I hope I can change that at least to some degree. I want to play them at least once before I sell them or give them away…
I did not manage to purge any of the games from my collection that I intended to.
I barely managed to play any of the games that I hadn’t played before and I wanted to.
I did play more in 2021 than I did in 2020, although not by much… but hey, I did manage to start an RPG campaign with my partner! And it’s been fun! So that’s one in the W-column.
I did manage to paint a lot. Not all my Infinity (a fair amount of it)… maybe about half?.. and then I stopped painting Infinity because it was frustrating me… but I managed to stay ahead of almost all my Legion (4 boxes left) and Battletech (3 boxes on the painting table right now). So calling that a win.
As for 2022? Honestly, it’s so hard to know until this stupid pandemic is over. I saw human beings outside of work once in the last 22 months (twice if you include a trip to my parents), but my partner has started playing more games, so that’s a nice upside! We will see, we will see…
Yes. Putting a number and not say “all of them” makes it more achievable. This is why I didn’t include “play all 102 unplayed games lmao”. I’ll second you on that. I’ll play 50 from my shame pile.
I didn’t manage to play all of them, but it has got me into the habit of playing new games rather than letting them languish on the shelf for months - I’m planning a learning game of Rallyman GT today so I can teach it on Saturday
Definitely failed. I might try and take a leaf out of @Captbnut’s book and buy no new games this year The fact that Kickstarter’s delivered to the UK have started to include ridiculous shipping costs and separate VAT should make it easier.
Surprisingly, we were making some progress on this before the whole Omicron thing, so hoping to pick that back up again soon…ish
From an aim to buy only 3, I bought 16. So that’s a big old fail factor in percentage terms however it doesn’t seem too big a number overall and 9 of them are light/family games as I realised my collection had gone heavy. I also sold 4 games so net plus 12. I’ll aim to get a bit more selling done this year and I hope to not get too agitated about buying games but it remains lowish. I’m not going to put a number in it. Single digits would be amazing but I won’t stress too much.
I’m stuck a bit on what I want to do about gaming goals. I’d like to play some titles more, go for deep dives but my unplayed count is 16. Which is 15 higher than when the pandemic began. That annoys me but getting deeper in to some games fits my pre pandemic desires more. So maybe I’ll focus in helping @lalunaverde with their 10x10 and nibble away at my unplayed games in between.
I’m going to try for a net reduction in my collection, just from a storage space point of view. Including kickstarter backing but not delivery in acquisitions, because I have no control over when the latter happens.
Well, in 2020, I added 554 items to my BGG collection (expansions / promos included). 2021 only saw 128… That’s a big win!
I also backed way fewer Kickstarter projects this year, and my waiting-to-be-received list is less than half as long as it was this time last year.
Hahaha, again. Oh well, by the time I’m out of the “newborn baby never lets you sleep” phase, my 4yo may be almost to the point of being able to play some interesting games.
As for 2022, I just plan to buy less stuff and enjoy more of what I have. No numbers at the moment
I want to run the Pirates of DrinaxTraveller campaign for at least one group and 3 one offs set in the Trojan Reaches.
I want to run at least one Mythras game set in mid 3rd century Syria.
Wargaming has to return to my table in 2022. A Song of Advanced Blades & Heroes (Ganesha Games), is my ruleset of choice. My friend has painted whole bands of Age of Sigmar minis and so we will play that, and I want to try some SF warship combat games, probably Star Eagles… A friend has Ronin from Osprey & someone has Kill Team.
In solo gaming I hope to continue to play the excellent Dragon Warriors solos from Red Ruin publishing, and 4AD from Ganesha as well as cracking open 5150 from two-hour wargaming.
Lots of boardgames need (more) playing, too many to list: Pandemic, Ticket to Ride, The King is Dead, Five Tribes and so on.
Late to the party here but for 2022 I’m trying to keep my goals a bit more realistic this year after I only finished one of my goals from 2021.
The first one is I’m going to try to play all the games I didn’t play last year that I own. This is less a thing I’m going to strive for and more something to keep track off because if at the end of this year I still haven’t played these then I need to start asking myself whether I should own these.
The second goal is to try to conquer my shelf of shame and to have no unplayed games or expansions at the end of the year. This one I actually really want to do and am going to try hard to achieve. But it also might be much harder as I have slowly built up about 20 games and even more expansions than that. It’s a bit too much I’ve let my completionist tendencies get the best of me and I want to try to have a clean slate for the new year. The big complication is that I have Kickstarters still on the way that might make this difficult but we’ll see.
Well, I sold Fog of Love, so that’s a tick, and bought way less games on the second half of 2021.
I should consider selling some more games. But I need to have my collection on display before I do that.
I received my first few KS games recently (including some I did not remember booking, oops) and hopefully I will receive a few more (I know Townfolk Tussle is on his way, somewhere on a ship or warehouse at the minute) I think last year was my biggest KS year, but I slowed down on the second half of the year.
I think I have improved a lot my collection, by one of my goals must be get a shelf dedicated to games. They have been too long perched on top of bookshelves or scattered between cupboards. Or like most of them are right now, boxed in the garage.
So, prudently saying I need to manage my collection better, pruning here and there, and with fewer additions, that should do the trick. According to BGG I am on 54 games, and I think my KS/Gamefound will take me to that sweet 70-75 figure, so it will be a matter of managing more the traffic in and out this year.
My collection size has been mostly stable despite some new acquisitions—thanks to some selling activities in January and February. However, I am not exactly a fan of this month’s streak of stress-buying… I think selling a few more games will alleviate some of that.
Overall though I am much more happy with what’s on the shelves. I got rid of a number of unloved boxes and it has become quite difficult to find games to sell. There are still a few I am undecided about.
Somehow missed this thread the first time around… My goals are as follow:
I want to play some of our unplayed games. I have an excuse for Bitoku (I want to see if the French rules become available sonewhere, as it would make the teach easier, although I will not wait if the mood strikes) and Pandemic Legacy 1 (we wanna try and figure out a way to make it re-usable), but Ghost Stories? There’s no real reason for that to sit untouched for almost a year. Yes, my shelf of shame is PALTRY. I’m quite proud of that.
We want to throw a board game night, maybe a whole week-end. Wouldn’t that be grand?
That’s it, really. I’d like for some of the games I got on order (French-language editions of Beyond The Sun and Spirit Island beimg at the very top of that list) to come in, but I have zero control over THAT…
I removed the 20 mid/heavy + 20 light big boxes distinction. Found it getting restrictive on how to mould my collection. Just 40 big box now. I’m now thinking that this seems impossible to strictly reach 40, but that’s fine. For as long as the number goes down.
From this target of 40, I had 120 from the end of Q1 (66 + 54). I’m now at 97. I also went on and start reducing on small box games as well, even if they aren’t part of my goal for this year…
Just before October comes around: I went down from 97 three months ago to 83. I haven’t counted how many light games I had before, but I end up getting rid of several.
The fact that Kickstarter’s delivered to the UK have started to include ridiculous shipping costs and separate VAT should make it easier.
it remains lowish. I’m not going to put a number in it. Single digits would be amazing but I won’t stress too much.