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.