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Reply To: How Many Game Systems Is Too Many?

March 8, 2021 at 3:24 pm #1620601

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I am pretty sure I have too many game systems on my shelf. Mostly because even before Covid I had more game systems then people interested in playing them. I too, like many of you, have multiple armies for all the big game systems. These seem to be the focal point for people in my local gaming group. Even those of us still able to get together to occasionally play, we only play the “main stream” games. It seems to be a combination of time, familiarity with the rules, and generally playing what is familiar.

Another challenge I have been noticing is that the more niche games come out, the more the group I play in gets broken down into those niches. From the pool of people there will only be 1 or 2 that play game X, then 1 or 2 different people who play Y and so on. Which in truth has helped with social distancing since I’ve been able to focus on this or that game a little and the group of people is by nature small. But back in the days of normal game play, it made it a little difficult to organize something outside one of the big main stream games.