And let's say it takes 20 minutes to sleeve each game, that's ~80 hours.

A pack of sleeves costs what, $5? So, let's say I have 250 games and, on average, I'll need one pack of sleeves per game, that's $750 dollars. The costs of sleeving all of them would cost a lot. I've been playing and collecting board games since the mid 80s. But for me, even then, it doesn't justify the time and expense of sleeving. I don't bother telling people not to drink near my games or anything. Oh important note, player 2 took it upon herself to contact Awaken Realms and somehow get them to ship replacements for some cards. I think I only said see, I told you so! about ten times but I don't swear to that. Luckily the Scout player board avoided damage, I scooped that one up immediately and dried it off. Substantial water damage to about a half dozen item, objective and attack cards :( But all the player action cards (which were right in the middle of the puddle) were fine.

I'm not insane.'įast forward 90 minutes and player 2 knocks over a giant bottle of seltzer. Note: I had not yet gotten sleeves for any item cards, the attack deck, the objective deck or the event deck.Ĭomments included 'you laminated these? ' to which I replied, 'Of course not. Early on the game, got some hefty abuse for having sleeved all the player action cards and the contamination deck. r/tabletopgamedesign - Designer's subreddit.r/boardgameexchange - selling/buying/trading games.Game of the Week Calendar Related Sites & Subreddits The simplest use is to bold game names in your comment and add ' /u/r2d8 getinfo' at the end of the post, but this post/sub has other features identified. You'll see people using bold to highlight games, that gives the opportunity to interact with /u/r2d8, a bot that can be used to grab data from BGG on games included in a post. Please see the Rules-page for a full list of the rules. Join our community! Come discuss games like Codenames, Arkham Horror, Terra Mystica, and all your other favorite games! Rules Welcome to /r/boardgames! The #1 reddit source for news, information, and discussion about modern board games. Join us on IRC or via your preferred IRC platform via libera.chat #boardgames. If you're looking to schedule an AMA, set-up a live event post, or collaborate with us in any way, reach out via modmail! New user on the sub? Please make sure you read our rules below and check out our Contribution Guides since we have additional rules regarding specific topics. Flair icons are BoardGameGeek microbadges and are used with permission.

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