Reply To: Will you ever be saturated?

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With so many genres (RPG, wargames, miniature boardgames) boiling down to “roll dice to equal or exceed a target number”, why bother spending another $200 on a game system you know is similar to something you already have — and taking up more storage space in the process? I have a fair number of RPG’s and dungeoncrawler boardgames (didn’t bother to get into miniatures wargaming because my friends were into RPGs and boardgames), and stopped buying rulesets above $20 decades ago. (Picked up some Osprey blue books during a holiday sale.) Gloomhaven’s the only game our group regularly plays, and it’s definitely a departure from the usual dice-throwing.

I’ve been buying miniatures because KS has not only made the more mainstream miniatures (eg. generic fantasy and zombies) cheap, but also made it easier to pick up niche miniatures (eg. Tiny Furniture’s Harvest of War corpses). It’s taking me only a few years to become saturated with dungeon terrain, but I’m still seeing novel miniatures I’d like to have (even at $100+ a pop) and would still like to create a 3D medieval village. I *really* like Loke Battlemaps as colorful background terrain I can plop my 3D stuff onto.

I know others still like dice-based games, and I’m not stopping them from spending another $200+ on another dice-based game system. But I’ve long run out of time to game, and am looking for “revolution, not evolution” in gaming.