[Taikonerd]

I'm thinking of breaking up with my local board game Meetup.

The reason why is: everybody there has board game ADD! I've been coming for 2 years, but we never play the same game twice; someone always brings the Hot New Game of the moment.

But I find that the first playthough is the least-fun one. That's the one where you're trying to remember what the grey cubes do, and whether they're worth victory points or not. And the game takes twice as long as it says on the box, because everyone needs to reason out their strategy from scratch.

I wish that I could convince my group to pick some set of N games to focus on!

[axus]

I always enjoy the first playthrough(s) the most, because learning the system and strategies is the fun part. Once everyone knows all the rules and how to beat me, it's only going through the motions as a social experience.

[almostdeadguy]

To me that’s a hallmark of a game that isn’t very interesting! If you can discover a dominant strategy in a handful of plays, the game probably isn’t worth your time IMO.

[Taikonerd]

It's interesting that you said "how to beat me." You also get better as you play the game more, right? So it could be you learning how to beat them ;-)

[ConceitedCode]

I ran into the same issue with my play group. I told them that I will only learn 3 new games a year.

Since I added the rule about a decade ago, we've never once hit the 3 game limit. Just having the rule made them rethink if it was worth learning a new game or playing one we had a lot fun with already.

[Tade0]

> victory points

TIL this is an established term and not a joke term invented by a certain YouTube personality.