Reply To: First impressions vs sustainability. Are looks more important than rules?

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@limburger pretty sure, being friends with a lot of board gamers, that if chess were invented now it would be equally successful.   Board gamers don’t care about miniatures, they really don’t.   They do care about quality and wooden meeples tend to be a preference but they don’t care about miniatures.  So, invent the game and sell it with high quality wooden pieces and a pretty looking board and yes, 100% it would sell.   Chess is only odd if you see it as a wargame, which it isn’t.