I’m a lazy network engineer. I program/script things because I’m too lazy to do it manually.
This is an accurate representation of my workflow:
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Well, yes. A good sysadmin is someone who will spend a week automating a boring 5-minute task.
(I do quite enjoy Lovelace and Babbage, even so. But I agree it would be better if it were “about” programming.)
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If you are ordering more despite being unable to play games that already arrived, I’d say that’s a problem.
(Assuming you buy games to play them…)
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Decided to follow the trend, and check out my outstanding games;
- Altar Quest
- Super Fantasy Brawl
- Dice Throne Season 1 Re-Rolled
- Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
- Hour of Need
- Conan the Conqueror
- Guards of Atlantis 2
- Relicblade: Storms of Kural
- Overlord: a Boss Monster Adventure
A couple I’ve backed at $1 and may up during the PM
- BlackList Fantasy Miniatures (primarily as a gift for my son to paint to his heart’s content, and use in D&D or other games)
- Merchants of the Dark Road
- Ankh: God’s of Egypt (the one I’m least likely to actually back)
Currently running campaigns that I’m considering;
- Perseverance Castaway Chronicles
- Ascension Tactics
Then there are the upcoming ones;
- Primal: the Awakening
- Massive Darkness 2 (shockingly excited for this based on the info coming)
- Freedom Five
- Mythic Battles Ragnarok
Plus others I’m sure…
Fortunately, I’ve not yet been burned. Street Masters fulfilment was a nightmare, but it’s being handled, and the game is fantastic!
There are a couple that may get moved on, but nothing that was a complete letdown.
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I am still pleased that I can count the number of KS’s I have backed on two hands, and a few of them were at my wife’s request. Everything I have backed has been fulfilled successfully, and usually close to on time. Only pending KS I have right now is War of Whispers.
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Because I like tabulating data: Kickstarters not yet fulfilled
- Raccoon Tycoon: The Fat Cat Expansion (Limited Premium Edition)
- Import / Export: Definitive Edition
- Millennium Blades: Collusion
- Root: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game
- 1861/1867
- Q.E.
- Arcane Alley: Moonstruck Market
- Viscounts of the West Kingdom (+Architects w/exp, +Paladins, +Tomesaga)
- Frosthaven (+Gloomhaven)
- GPS + Sequoia + Mountain Goats
- Pax Renaissance + Pax Viking
- Planet Unknown
- 1840: Vienna Tramways (+1824)
- The Ratcatcher, Solo Adventure
- Canvas
- Ausonia
- Mini Express
- 18DO: Dortmund
- Bullet♥
- A War of Whispers
- Railroad Ink: Kermit Green + Lemon Yellow (+all the things)
- 1822: The Railways of Great Britain
- Merchants of the Dark Road
- Mayday’s Crokinole Board (despite the warnings about their previous Kickstarters)
- Rallyman: DIRT
- (and, now) Whale Riders (+card game, +Yellow & Yangtze)
Don’t be like me, kids!
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We have only one in common - and you can probably guess which.
Kickstarters Roger is waiting for
Project L
Dice Hospital Expansion
Epic Jungle (Star Realms extra bits)
Thunderbolt Apache Leader Expansion 1
Aeon’s End Outcasts
Gladius
Ell Deck
Steampunk Rally Fusion
Railroad Ink Challenge
A War of Whispers + Dark Alliances
Rallyman Dirt
GURPS PDF Challenge
DVG Air Leader Expansions
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Laying out the boardgame KS projects I’ve been involved with, everything has eventually arrived (only two really big delays, High Frontier and D-Day Dice) or is plausibly expected to.
Boardgame kickstarters I've backed that have been delivered
- Flash Point Honor and Duty - no problems at all
- The Resistance Hostile Intent/Hidden Agenda - no problems at all
- High Frontier - a year and a half late, by which time my tastes in boardgaming had shifted. But once they supplied the errata-ed card, I was able to sell it for a decent price.
- Secret Hitler - it’s a lovely physical product, but I think the gameplay is broken (Hitler must play as a perfect Liberal until they can win) and I sold it on.
- Good Cop Bad Cop Undercover - I like social deduction games, but I don’t like this one, possibly because of the police culture. Sold it on.
- Space Race - I don’t play this often because it’s very hard to teach but I like it.
- Alien Frontiers - no problems with this apart from minor delays.
- Illimat / Illimat Crane Wife - this game is an underappreciated gem.
- Black Orchestra - a little late.
- War of the Nine Realms* - a little late.
- Deception Murder in Hong Kong - no problems here (apparently I was lucky).
- Star Realms Frontiers - no problems here.
- Flash Point Tragic Events - no problems here.
- Who Goes There - arrived all right, but I should have read the rulebook more closely. Sold.
- Dice Hospital - no problems here (Essen pickup).
- Space Race Interkosmos - no problems here.
- D-Day Dice - huge problems, but it has eventually arrived.
- Human Era - no problems here.
- Evil High Priest - no problems here.
- Darwinning - no problems here. Though I haven’t played it much.
- Imperius - no problems here.
- Grifters Nexus - no problems here.
- Small Star Empires - no problems here (except that some bonus they’d offered was missing from my packing list, but they supplied it in the end).
- Black Orchestra conspirator packs - no problems here.
- Rallyman GT - no problems here. Yeah, they screwed up and didn’t tell the shippers to retail to hold back when the shipments to KS backers were delayed, but I don’t have a problem with that; I didn’t back to have it first, but to have it reasonably promptly and with all the extras.
- Human Punishment Hell Gate - no problems here.
- Aeon’s End New Age - no problems here.
- Hostage Negotiator Career - no problems here.
- Sensor Ghosts and Assembly - packing problems as I mentioned above, made good.
- Dwarf* - no problems here.
* = I got a discount through working for the publisher
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Purchasing prospectively/aspirationally is a slippery slope!
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One of my friends has this problem. Games night always used to be, “Let’s try this new Kickstarter I just received!” I don’t think I’ve played any of his games more than once each. It also stops favourites from being taken off the shelf.
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I have kinda this issue but from the other side. I’d like to play the deeper games over and over so we can develop strategies and don’t have to constantly learn rules.
But it either ends up as:
a) “that sounds difficult, shall we play something else” immediately blocking playing it
Or
b) playing once and moving onto the next thing. With 3 or 4 people all buying games it’s a struggle to get any game on the table (not for want of trying).
I’ve found its easiest to get excited about other people’s games to get games replayed (call me Machiavelli), but that then further sacrifices my games. Part of the reason I have large library so friends can pick games without it being me forcing my choice on people. Getting it to work in practice is more difficult though!
The best is when a friend gets excited about a game I already own. Getting quite good at “oh that’s a good game, think I played it once a while ago”.
Think Brass is the only game we’ve managed to turn into more of a habit. Probably because it’s quite short for the depth. It’s great to leap straight into a game without the brain drain of rules explanations.
My old group was much more amenable to playing games without obstacles. Fingers crossed we can align our schedules again soon.
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I guessed correctly (Rallyman Dirt), but you are mistaken. Both of you also backed War of Whispers.
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And Railroad Ink.
I figured he must have been saying the thing we have in common is that we both like to tabulate data.
This is why I have been eliminating my games down, and still going. I want to play my faves.
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I haven’t got Space Alert or Galaxy Trucker off the shelf in years and that saddens me a little.
All I’ve bought in a long time is Flamme Rouge: Meteo as it was cheap and I figured I’d find some way to play it in lockdown.
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Hahaha I backed that one too
Yeah, I have the same problem. I continue to purchase games (just not really on KS) because they sound fun and interesting, but then that’s just more games to try to get played in the limited gaming time I have. There are plenty of games that I would LOVE to play more, but then I feel a bit compelled to get my new games to the table. And that is a challenge in itself as sometimes my group just wants to play something familiar or just don’t feel up for learning a new game.
I think I need to slow down on buying games, and limit myself to expansions for those I already own if I simply must buy something. At least that way it would encourage playing games I already have and know.
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I recently discovered Kickstarter ( I’m pretty new to boardgames) so I went on a bit of a spree the last few months. I’m backing
- Frosthaven- I have Gloomhaven and it’s great so this was an easy call also got the organizer so I don’t have to do it myself again
- A war of whispers - just the standard version
- Cloudspire Ankhars plunder - gameplay all in plus a few extras
- World builders Notebook already have ideas to put in them
- Mini Rogue
- Nemesis Lockdown - the first game
- Sea of Legends - the one on this list I feel I may have made a mistake with but we’ll see
- Railroad Ink green and first game blue
- Guards of Atlantis 2 - with the extra heroes
I’m excited by this whole process but I may have to curtail this for a bit until I see how these turn out
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Good thought, but no, I just didn’t notice. 
I tend to be one of the bigger game buyers in groups I go to - and at a convention I’m one of the people with the camping trolley full of games, so that whatever people feel like playing I’m likely to have something of the right general sort. (“Roger’s Portable Games Library.”)
I like playing a lot of games a few times each, but I’m settling down a bit more now.
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Along the same lines: I want to have the right game for any occasion. I curate a collection so I’m never put in the position of, “Well, this would be a great time to play Game X, but I don’t own it so we’ll play Game Y instead”. Obviously, I will never actually achieve a comprehensive collection.
Additionally, I live in a very affordable city and I bring home a very good salary, so collecting boardgames is certainly a vice that I afford myself.
Soon, my new house will occupy a good deal more of said salary; additionally, I will finally have a space to setup a woodshop, which will likely steal some funds from my boardgaming hobby. My partner and I have discussed limits on our boardgame collection and we will establish (once we move) a shelf-space-based limit (which I will hopefully explain with pictures soon, if everything works out with this house we’re currently trying to buy)
This also describes me. I bore of the same challenges and I often fear that my love of boardgames is actually a love of exploring new ideas – and most games I can buy just won’t hold my attention sufficiently.
But then I remember that there are many, many games with nearly unlimited depth to explore, and that gives me comfort.
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