I will tell you this before we get too far, I’ve played a fair number of games, and I thought Gloomhaven was a dense, clunky and unfun experience for the first couple of plays. A week later, Gloomhaven lands on your doorstep, probably slightly cracking your foundation in the process. So imagine being that person who just happened upon BoardGameGeek and wanted to find a great game for the first time. Gloomhaven is the number one game on BoardGameGeek, the number one source of all board gaming information on the internet. Why am I talking about rulebooks being an exclusionary thing for gaming? I should be talking about Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion, right? Well, I don’t think that you can really talk about Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion without acknowledging why it exists in the first place. I am thankful for my group and their desire to play games again, even if I completely screw something up. That’s after learning something close to 1200 games, and probably teaching at least, half of those. I’m not the best, and I still am never comfortable that I am going to get everything one hundred percent correct the first time. Most of us aren’t teachers for a living, and judging from some rules explanations I’ve gotten, I’m grateful that some of you folks aren’t teaching my kids in any kind of structured environment. Publishers are hiring competent writers and editors who are trying to open the door to more than just hobby gamers by using easier to understand language and instructions, but the barrier still exists.Īnother thing that really prevents folks from playing games is the dreaded teaching of a game. Rule books over the past couple years have gotten increasingly better, for the most part. There is a barrier of entry there that just prevents them from jumping in and playing. My parents can’t, or don’t want to, learn Ticket to Ride or Patchwork from the rule book. It doesn’t matter what the game is, or how easily understood by gamers the rules are, rule books just completely ruin board gaming for most people. Rule books just aren’t something that most people can easily digest and understand.
Sure, there are a lot of different things that can contribute to the refusal to sit and play, but the number one thing that prevents people from playing games has to be the rule books and how we learn board games. The biggest hurdle in getting people to play board games is pretty simple.
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If you would like specifics on gameplay or story or components, feel free to ask away in the comments and I can find a private way to share, this review is not going to get into that stuff.
#Gloomhaven jaws of the lion plus#
Pictures will be there to just show mechanisms involved in the game, plus the look and feel. Some of the photos may contain information that is unknown at the start, but I will tell you nothing about how any of it turns out. McDowellĭISCLAIMER: This review will be as spoiler free as it possibly can be. David Demaret, Alexandr Elichev, Jason D. Artists: Francesca Baerald, Cat Bock, David Bock.
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