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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9270057" data-attributes="member: 7044704">Ah, memories of the south wing of my dorm in 1987.&nbsp; There was essentially a 24/7 game of monopoly going in the study lounge there all year.&nbsp; North wing had poker instead.&nbsp;&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Most RPGs do take significantly more investment of time to really experience than boardgames, though.&nbsp; That tends to lead to sticking with them longer, and coming back to systems you're already familiar with - although obviously how much you do so varies from person to person.If you want to see people who really pick a system (or at least subject/genre/time period) and stick to it like glue forever, the best examples are usually in the miniatures community.&nbsp; The time, effort and money involved in just prepping to play some of those games can be enormous, and once you've got an force of figures ready to go there's a real temptation to keep using them as much as you can.&nbsp; And then you start to paint &quot;opposition forces&quot; to lend out to get other folks to try your pet game, which also double as more factions to play yourself to keep things fresh longer.&nbsp; And new sculpts come along, and now there's 3D printing giving you more choices than ever.Most minis gamers IME tend to be easily distracted by new hotness and don't stick like that, but the ones who do can wind up with some impossibly huge armies.&nbsp; It's not really a joke that some people have more (say) Napoleonic Old Guard minis than ever existed historically, even in a system where the figure : head count ratio is one : one.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9270057, member: 7044704"] Ah, memories of the south wing of my dorm in 1987. There was essentially a 24/7 game of monopoly going in the study lounge there all year. North wing had poker instead. :) Most RPGs do take significantly more investment of time to really experience than boardgames, though. That tends to lead to sticking with them longer, and coming back to systems you're already familiar with - although obviously how much you do so varies from person to person. If you want to see people who really pick a system (or at least subject/genre/time period) and stick to it like glue forever, the best examples are usually in the miniatures community. The time, effort and money involved in just prepping to play some of those games can be enormous, and once you've got an force of figures ready to go there's a real temptation to keep using them as much as you can. And then you start to paint "opposition forces" to lend out to get other folks to try your pet game, which also double as more factions to play yourself to keep things fresh longer. And new sculpts come along, and now there's 3D printing giving you more choices than ever. Most minis gamers IME tend to be easily distracted by new hotness and don't stick like that, but the ones who do can wind up with some impossibly huge armies. It's not really a joke that some people have more (say) Napoleonic Old Guard minis than ever existed historically, even in a system where the figure : head count ratio is one : one. :) [/QUOTE]

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