Board Game Bliss has their Labour Day sale on, which was advertised as “over 240 items”, about half of which were dice!
That said, there were a few good deals, the biggest one for me was Nanty Narkingfor 45% off. Considering that I almost backed the KS, and had been considering it at regular retail, it was too good to pass up.
The game has mostly positive reviews. Some find it a little too random, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue for most. We don’t play a ton of 3+ games, but the theme, complexity, and game length of this one all lead me to think we’ll be able to table this.
I know, I know. Can’t wait to visit the FLGS (I managed to postpone the visit for a week)…
Maybe we should have a thread about “How to not buy games” just to share a little bit about how to convince ourselves that we do not need that specific game. I think there was one on the old forum started by the expert of not buying new games.
Aeon’s End Outcasts (aka AE 5) has arrived. In normal times I would have been demoing this at Essen, so there’s a bit of sadness there, but I’m still glad to have it.
and in normal times I would be going to Essen and have visited the booth
Have fun! My partner actually inquired when we would play our Aeon’s End 1 again. So it seems that it left a good impression.
I had a thread about throttling game purchases, intended as a kind of counterweight to the consumer frenzy of most threads about boardgame transactions on forums full of people obsessed with boardgames. Obviously, it didn’t really fill up with posts all that quickly - the idea was to leave as long a time as possible between posts!
Well, that can be the problem. Instead of sounding like an advocate for moderation, it’s easy to end up sounding like sour grapes. If I had more money and space (and time), I would probably buy more games. But, and this is the big but, I probably still wouldn’t be able to play them all as much as I’d like, because of the shortage of other people’s time!
Where no money is the only “real” issue because the other two can be meddled with as any Dr Who fan will know. (I mean the dopamine hit still comes when you spend the money, whether or not you get to play the game or stack it on top of the huge pile cluttering up the remainders of the living room.)
It’s funny - I’m at crunch time for a kitchen rennovation so I’ve just cancelled a number of game preorders as quite frankly I’m buying games that look interesting to play at some COVID-controlled future meeting.
I’ve payed most of my games less than 10 times and they’re great so why not play them. I love playing a few games over and over that everyone knows.