Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Yo, I hear you like organizers. So we got you organizers.

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Pledge: continue work on my Heresy Miniatures minis

Answer: So from what I have written in the initial post you might have guessed where my stance on this is. For discussion sake I’ll try to make some short statements.

Tabletop miniature wargaming (aka “our hobby”): The need to organize the shit out of stuff comes as something that’s just backed into the DNA of the games. Army Lists, companies, rank and file. It’s all part of it. And for some it’s an enjoyable aspect of the hobby to have everything sit neat and tidy in some boxes or shelves.

Board games: Dear manufacturers, could you please fucking NOT? I get that people like different complexities in their games but when I get a game like Descent that has 3 books (one for rules, two for campaigns with even more rules), dynamic maps with tiles that are just not organizable in any reasonable way, a butt load of different cards and tokens… the sheer prep work for every game setup is mental. Also, while I’m at it, do a fucking prober index. If your cards and tokens all have different names that are not easily assigned to them (aka you read the text and can see what card it refers to) then do a bloody index and a list of “this is a card for such and such” and put a fucking picture next to it. That adds one, maybe to pieces of paper to each box but makes it much more easier to set things up if your not gaming 24/7 or something…

All in all I don’t mind organizing with miniature wargaming. It’s a collectible hobby. But boardgames… *sighs* I don’t want organizers in my organizers to organize my organizers so that I can fit some more organizers and bags…

I need a drink.