People who play board games seem to think the way to get new people into the hobby is to show them very boring and basic games first and I just don't agree with that stance at all
If you want to get people past "Oh like Monopoly?" you don't show them other games on that level, you show them the full potential of the medium
Like, maybe don't scare them away with ultraheavy eurogames or something but find a middle ground
@coriander some friends of mine in undergrad subjected me to Twilight Imperium
@wallhackio I would love to play TI one day but like
Willingly
@wallhackio The only time I played Arkham Horror was a Saturday in college and I was NOT prepared for how Much that game was going to be and it was kinda miserable. Like, I didn't find the rules that hard to parse, I just had rolled out of bed at 11.30, walked to the student center, and started playing what turned into a 6-hour board game session, by the end of which I was ready to go back to bed
@wallhackio lmao