What BOARD GAMES are you TRADING?

So, not a record of a trade, as I don't have much left in my list, but a question of viability/value:

I played Arkham Horror, 2nd Ed. somewhere between dozens and hundreds of times. I had everything for it and we played that way. But finally I realized that it had reached the level of being more bookkeeping than game and traded all of it away. In contrast, I never played Eldritch Horror but I heard that some appreciated it for its condensing of AH situations that had become tedious.

So, is it worth trying to trade for Eldritch? I know it has half a dozen expansions, akin to it's predecessor that would also have to be tracked down at some point. I'm just wondering if it's worth the effort.

Sending out THIS WAR OF MINE. I played it maybe a half dozen times, had the experience, felt sadness and frustration. Then bought the video game while on a road trip and played that a bunch. It has been collecting dust for a few years. Trading it for LAST NIGHT ON EARTH with a bunch of expansions. Figure can't go wrong with some zombie bashing trash.


As a reply to the above I never played Eldritch Horror, but I loved (love?) AH 2nd edition and also have most of the expansions, but I am a play with one or two expansions and separate them out when done kind of guy. I think AH will be one of those games that will stay on my shelf and the kids can toss in the trash when I die. I have fond memories of having it set up when I had infants and playing a round or two with a baby strapped to my chest. So I'd recommend getting the base game and maybe your favorite expansions back

Yeah, if I traded it, it's highly unlikely that I'm going to trade back into it. It's just too large and there's not enough time to play it to what it should be. That's why I was thinking about trying something new.

have you played the AH living card game?

I've tried a couple times. I played one solo effort with the base campaign and it was OK with a narrow in. Then I tried it again with a couple friends and we got trashed (played both on Normal, rather than Easy.) The impression I've gathered from Gary Sax and others is that the actual campaigns are where the real fun begins, but I'm thinking it may just not be my thing overall. Part of the appeal of board games like AH is that each game is (usually) different. I'm not as interested in playing the same campaign steps over again and expecting difference by tuning a deck differently. That, to me, seems like more setup effort than it's worth in terms of entertainment.

I bounced off the AH card game despite enjoying the first few plays for the reasons you note. The deck building/tuning element is something too alien for me, I cannot connect with sifting through hundreds of card options looking for combos and the decks I build usually fare badly as a result. It was cool to move through the different stages of the campaign though.

(side note that I prefer the approach in Earthborne Rangers to deck building, which feels like a more organic way to do this; startup is simple and largely guided based on character choice then you find stuff along the way that you can choose whether or not to include, so you end up tuning your deck in incremental stages based on your adventures)

I've played Eldritch and thought it was fine but the experience wasn't so wildly different to AH2e that I felt the urge to get a copy. Feels like the kind of game you bring in only to send it back out again.

OK. I may just content myself with C: DMD, then. Appreciate the feedback, especially since I know our tastes tend to align on many things (Hope you two are well, BTW.)

Yeah! Not quite the right forum for it but my eldest has the last of his exams today so now we are just waiting for results to see which Uni he gets into. That and various other things closing out means we are putting a lot of stress behind us and can start having normal functioning lives again

I got a copy of The Adventurers: Temple of Chac finally; it's been years. Love it but I just played it so much I was done with it.

In a similar vein, I decided I'm done with Twilight Imperium. I played dozens of TI3 games and then finally traded it away years ago. When Twilight Inscription came out, I enjoyed that enough to trade my way into base game TI4 and then bought the expansion. We've played ~10 games of it since I picked it up and I've just had enough. I don't know if it's just our local group, but the last few sessions have been a stagnation for the last round that takes 1/3 of the time of the whole game while people look for answers in the secret objective deck and the game drags and... it just wasn't working. So, after the last time we played, I told the group that if they wanted to get together for a whole day game, it would have to be something else. One of them said he'd be willing to buy it off me if I ever decided I was really done with it and today I sold it to him (so, given the thread, not really a trade, except for cash.) It was a great game, but it's just not for me anymore.If I want to play a six-hour game, I want it to be something like Weimar or John Company (although six hours would be long for JC) or something else. TI was great while it lasted, but it has run its course for me.

Yeah, just based on watching TI4 game streams, the winmake merry go round at the end that seems to come from experienced players is just not for me.

Out: Amun-Re
In: High Society

One Knizia for another. Amun-Re just never worked well for us. There's a certain elegance to the good doctor's games in things like Samurai and T&E that just isn't reflected in Amun-Re, which simply always felt clunky. I traded for a much smaller (and faster) game that may not be that much of a climb in terms of said elegance, since High Society is a pretty obvious auction game that, from the looks of it, doesn't really compare to masterpieces like Modern Art. But I've never played, so I was fine with trading something I probably wasn't going to play again for something that will see a few plays; not least at summer festivals, where it will be much easier to transport and put on the table (Amun-Re was a complete non-starter in that respect.)

I think High Society is great -- but better with three than four or five. The rule that the player with the least money loses no matter how high their score really comes to the fore when played with three. Decisions that are easy when played with five become agonising with three (for me, that's a good thing).

I just put some games on Facebook marketplace, and they are not moving despite really low prices, so I guess I'll have to endure the torment of Ebay or send them to the thrift store

FREE: DnD starter set: rules and scenario only, no dice

Android: complete. I rebuilt the battered box

Robinson Crusoe: includes a bunch of player aids and FAQs I printed out.

Yomi

Earth Reborn: when I open the box it still smells new. Slight wear to outside of box

Edit: Earth Reborn is selling for about $12 on Ebay. Interesting.

I should just take these to the thrift store and make someone's day.

Not an actual trade, but a story: Sometimes, you wonder just how much people are lurking in various fora. I've long been a complainer about the culture among BGG traders and users, in that the system set up to create trades is the very definition of "minimal effort." If someone makes an offer that you don't want, it takes literally two mouse clicks- less than three seconds -to reject it. But so many people are unwilling to engage even that simply courtesy. So, the other day, someone made a post of similar complaints on r/boardgames and I responded to it: www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1oo...t/nn3dwrg/?context=3

A couple days later, I realized that I hadn't tried to move anything recently, so thought I might try to toss a few things out there and see what I can get back. I made four offers... and a whole three of the four got responses! Two of them were simple rejections (two seconds of mouse clicking!) and another was a rejection because someone had forgotten that they'd already traded the item I was interested in and stopped to write a note explaining why they were turning it down and kicking themselves because they would've been more interested in what I was offering.

Of course, it's almost certainly a coincidence. While I know there's a healthy amount of crossover between BGG and that subReddit, it would be assuming way too much to think that not only had people read that thread but also happened to be the people I offered trades to AND been convinced by my post to actually take the grievous amount of time and effort to respond to them.