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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 5023581" data-attributes="member: 11821">Hah.  I can't get to boardgamegeek from work, but the comments bore all the hallmarks of a drive-by board invasion.I doubt if any of those comments are actually from locals. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  As such, I find it pretty hard to root for them, you know?  It'd be like if a group of us headed on over to a local paper's review of 4e or Pathfinder.IMO, it should be taken as instructive.  The reviewers basically said, "I really don't get this game."  They're not hobbyists, and they're not experts.  Their opinion means that - for people without a hobbyist friend - even the easier "geek" games are pretty tough to get into.  They're a niche product, and it's hard for connoiseurs of a niche product to understand that not everyone is like themselves.-O</blockquote>