Imagine the world is full of amazing board games, you go to whatever bookstore and half the board game selection is amazing looking stuff you’ve never played, but your friends only want to play this weird card game that combines the monotony of Mad Libs with the gatekeeping cliquishness and alienation of trivia games.
I mean, it probably that card games are generally cheaper and quicker to learn than a lot of the bigger board games. Cards you can whip out at any get together and people pick it up pretty fast. But try and pull that shit with Twilight Imperium.
Imagine the world is full of amazing board games, you go to whatever bookstore and half the board game selection is amazing looking stuff you’ve never played, but your friends only want to play this weird card game that combines the monotony of Mad Libs with the gatekeeping cliquishness and alienation of trivia games.
I mean, it probably that card games are generally cheaper and quicker to learn than a lot of the bigger board games. Cards you can whip out at any get together and people pick it up pretty fast. But try and pull that shit with Twilight Imperium.
There is a huge variety of card games that are easy to pick up, not vapid, and not purely a word game.