Rule books – the Holy Grail?
Every tabletop game comes with a rule book.
Every tabletop game comes with a rule book.
If you have played a few tabletop games, you will have noticed how game length varies drastically.
If you have bought a number of tabletop games, you will have noticed how some games fill out every inch of space in the box, while other games are basically a large box of air.
With the advent of crowd funding sites like Kickstarter, it has become easier to fund a new project - and the tabletop games industry has been overrun by games designers launching their own games with the help of people willing to sponsor their ideas.
All games are a mixture of chance and strategy - Yahtzee is virtually pure chance, while Chess is virtually pure strategy, and there is a whole range in between of course.
Most of us will have played traditional tabletop games, such as Monopoly, Game of Life, Yahtzee or Risk.
In my view, themes very often make or break a game.
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