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Heard a guy at the game store say he'd never play a game with more than 3 pages of rules
I was at The Dragon's Hoard in Springfield last Saturday, picking up some sleeves, and this guy was talking really loud to his friend. He said, 'If the rulebook is longer than three pages, I'm out, it's not worth the brain space.' It really got me thinking about how we judge games before we even try them. That kind of gatekeeping just shrinks the whole hobby. Has anyone else run into this kind of hard line against learning new rules?
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casey8431mo ago
Used to be the same way, always grabbing the shortest rulebooks I could find. Then a friend made me try Twilight Imperium... that rulebook is a beast. But once we got going, it created these amazing stories you just don't get from simpler games. Now I see a thick manual and get excited for the possibilities. It's a shame to write off a whole world of games over a few extra pages.
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