Renato Ramonda
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995 xp
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Small World
…now before you think I’m mad, I tried this.
Say you have some friends visiting, or staying after dinner, and they’re not much in the know about boardgames. They will probably know Risk (everybody knows Risk, just like Monopoly and Scrabble), they might even suggest playing it if you ask if they want to play a boardgame.
This is where you whip out SmallWorld. Pitch it as a “Risk where luck does not count, the game lasts much less, and nobody is ‘out of the game’ before the end because if you’re cornered you can come back strong and stab in the back your opponents.”
I tried this pitch a couple of times and it works like a charm.
They’ll learn of all the other cool features of SmallWorld while they play, it’s Ok. But the “kinda like Risk, but better” hook has worked reliably so far.
And once you make someone who likes boardgames in general know the modern kind of games… they’ll want more: Win!