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<blockquote data-quote="lordabdul" data-source="post: 8032584" data-attributes="member: 6994956">RPGs and board games are totally different yeah -- I was just saying that my approach for deciding if I want to pick this new game I heard about are very similar.In my experience, the vast majority of board games we play in my social circles are invariably brought by someone who has already played it before, and therefore knows the rules and is going to explain it to the rest of the table.&nbsp; It's true however that you could open the game and discover the rules together, which is something we can do with board games and not RPGs because board game rules fit in a 5 pages booklet that takes minutes to parse, whereas a new RPG game is a 256 pages book that takes hours to assimilate. In that regard, yes, someone will have to spend these hours reading the book. But the overall scale is also different: the 5 minutes spent learning the board game rules are invested so you can play that game for 30 minutes. The couple hours you spend reading the RPG book are potentially for several sessions of play. That's why Quickstart rules and starter sets are super useful: you get one or two sessions of play for an investment of, say, 30 minutes maybe? (most Quickstarts are under 20 pages for the rules section)... and also, they're often free.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lordabdul, post: 8032584, member: 6994956"] RPGs and board games are totally different yeah -- I was just saying that [I]my [U]approach[/U] for [U]deciding[/U] if I want to pick this new game I heard about[/I] are very similar. In my experience, the vast majority of board games we play in my social circles are invariably brought by someone who has already played it before, and therefore knows the rules and is going to explain it to the rest of the table. It's true however that you [I]could[/I] open the game and discover the rules together, which is something we can do with board games and not RPGs because board game rules fit in a 5 pages booklet that takes minutes to parse, whereas a new RPG game is a 256 pages book that takes hours to assimilate. In that regard, yes, someone will have to spend these hours reading the book. But the overall scale is also different: the 5 minutes spent learning the board game rules are invested so you can play that game for 30 minutes. The couple hours you spend reading the RPG book are potentially for several sessions of play. That's why Quickstart rules and starter sets are super useful: you get one or two sessions of play for an investment of, say, 30 minutes maybe? (most Quickstarts are under 20 pages for the rules section)... and also, they're often free. [/QUOTE]

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