Granted, my bigger peeve is players who can't sit still and pay attention during the teach.
Teaching games is a skill. Teaching complicated games is a very specialized skill.
So, the secret to immortality is to read out loud incredibly long and complicated board game rules?!? Who'da thought...?
You'll certainly feel like you're living forever!
Another fan of The Campaign For North Africa.
An unjustly maligned, underappreciated piece of work.
I used to play Squad Leader by myself. My friend gave me his copy because he considered it unplayable. For his 40th birthday, I returned it with all the counters sorted.
That is an accurate representation of how I felt when no one showed up having done any prep for the first time playing Gloomhaven. Sent rulebook PDF and how to play video links over a week ahead of time too.
I don't remember Gloomhaven, but JotL and Frosthaven both had very good tutorial levels that got you started with the concepts without needing any prior knowledge. Maybe they learnt from GH.
Yep, been there, done that. The board game I am working on has currently manual that is 36 pages long. And I know it is too long. Working on it.
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