• The Expert: You buy board games as often and as many as you can. You play them alone or with friends. It‘s your favorite hobby.

  • The Collector: You buy way too many games, but actually play only a handful of them.

  • The Hermit: Your prefered way of playing is playing alone.

  • The Specialist: You own a specific but small collection of games, carefully curated for every opportunity, heavy games included.

  • The Casual: You play from time to time with friends, enjoy it, but you are just getting started.

I want to get to know you better! Have I missed a kind of gamer here?

(English is my 2nd language, sorry for my mistakes.)

  • dpunked@feddit.deMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I would say I am a Specialist, maybe becoming a Collector.

    We do not have so many games and enjoy playing the games we have as much as possible. It is our favorite hobby and we do not shy away from heavy games, in fact, we prefer a healthy mix of some easy to get into games and harder games.

    We probably have something like 30 games. we thought about selling some but its almost more hassle than just keeping them around.

  • Dwarpheus@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m a specialist. I played a decent amount of different games, enough to know what I like. My collection is small, around 30 games, ranging from Boonanza to Frosthaven. I have a game for every occasion and I really like them ALL. I buy a new game every year or so and every couple of years I do a ‘clean up’ and sell a few game that I’ve lost interest in.

    I must admit: I keep a few games that I should part with, but I just can’t do it (Catan, Monopoly).

    • squidsarefriends@feddit.deOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Only about one game in a year? You own around 30? That indeed sounds like a refined collection. If you find the time you should post one of those „This is my collection“ pics! I‘d be interested!

  • Mutelogic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The poor fan: Watches all of the videos, reads through PDFs of rulebooks, joins communities… but has a very sparse collection and doesn’t have time to play.

    Wow. That was sad to type out.

  • tetha@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m more of a specialist and a rule lawyer.

    I mostly have a small collection of games ranging from easily explained to really huge. Like, I have Flashpoint, or Pandemic, or Betrayal at the house on the Hill. All of these are games you can understand well enough in 1-2 rounds of going if you know boardgames a bit. And then there are things like Junta, Arkham Horror, Eldricht Horror, Battlestar Galactica, considering to get the new dune game. Those are great, but a lot harder to get into.

    But that’s a quality my current gaming circle likes. I can pick up a lot of rulesets and digest them decently quickly, because I’ve played a lot of games, and a lot of complicated games over the years. Like, if you’ve dealt with MtG and Dominion, you’ve seen 90% of deck building concepts and rules. Some P&P RPG experiences in 2-3 frameworks cover a lot of ground for a bunch of game rules. You kinda learn how rules tend to be written, how rules tend to be designed, and how rules are usually intended to be and that helps processing rulesets quicker.

  • donio@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Apparently I am “Expert” but I don’t feel like one. I just like playing lots of games. I have too many games but very few unplayed. The “as many as you can” is bound by money, space and time to play.