I always wince a bit when someone backs their first Kickstarter. Very few board game club members back Kickstarters but it is becoming more prevalent. So what differentiates your typical BGG member from a more casual player from board game club? Or playing down a cafe? Your $15 to become a supporter isn’t even going to touch the sides. I would have thought that advertising revenue must now be a significant income stream for the site. But even so it’s pretty obvious That one of the main objective of the site is to sell games. There are forum posts that explain how the site works and introduces new members. Obviously over recent years the owners of BGG have tried to make it more accessible. The BGG hotness or indeed the top one hundred would be a bad list to select your first board game from.

Ok it’s not a bad as Reddit but it’s a brave newbie that posts a comment on the general forum. A lot of posters use abbreviations and technical terms. Members of BGG are a subset of the people that buy and play board games and they have some specific biases and tendencies.īGG is a pretty unfriendly site for newbies. I would also suggest over recent years facebook groups like “Board game trading and chat” are having more influence. If they do they just use it for rules queries. Indeed I would suggest some don’t even know about it. Hardly any of the folks from board game club frequent Board Game Geek.

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