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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dbm" data-source="post: 9682878" data-attributes="member: 8014">Perhaps, maybe this is a common thing. But there are many people who collect boardgames and play them over and over again, whether that is a flurry of plays for the same game or putting them back on the shelf to play again months or even years later. I think board games are in some ways more long lasting than RPGs because they provide a distinct play experience which you may want to come back to repeatedly and which another game may never provide as they will have a different combination of theme, look, mechanisms, and scoring. Board games are the ‘second hobby’ for my gaming group after RPGs and some of our best games we have owned for over a decade. In terms of RPGs, I always have a favourite but it has changed over time. My current favourite is Savage Worlds as it ticks most of the boxes for a game I want to play and is broadly applicable (being genre-flexible) so I can cover a wide range of campaign ideas with it. My previous favourite was GURPS for a similar reason, but Savage Worlds is more action focused and less granular than GURPS is by default, both of which are pluses in my book.Savage Worlds may not be my favourite forever, and the main reason for that is that while I really enjoy it a chunk of my regular group are cooler on the system. They will play it, but they don’t seek to play it. So if I can find a game which similarly meets my needs but fires up my group more strongly that might become my new favourite system.I have a short list of tier 2 favourites - these are game which I also enjoy but they typically are less flexible than Savage Worlds or GURPS so they wouldn’t meet all my gaming wants.</blockquote>

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