User:GorditaCrunch93

Hello everyone, your friendly, neighborhood Taco Bell delicacy here!

My foray into the hobby started with family game nights and weekends at a ski lodge in Lake Tahoe. Most household staples were in the line up: Monopoly, Sorry, Life, and other such titles. A couple odd balls were tossed into the mix, and I can remember playing 4-6 hours of Rail Barrons as a middle schooler and enjoying every moment of it. My senior year of high school I spent the summer working at the local gym by day, and playing Catan and Ticket to Ride: Europe by night. We probably played at least 3-4 games a week. Ahh, the good ole days!

I took somewhat of a break from table top gaming in college but really picked things up once I graduated in 2016. I began with the Catan expansions and played the heck out of Cities and Knights with Seafarers. It's tough to think back on which were for first games that really opened up the hobby for me, but I'm pretty sure a handful of my first "hobby" board games outside of the entry ones previously listed were Betrayal at House on the Hill, Galaxy Trucker, 7 Wonders. As many have probably experienced first hand, discretionary income and BGG can be a killer combo, so my collection exploded over the years.

Today my collection is 146 games deep if you include expansions. I religiously log my plays as I like to see how much I'm getting out of a game and if it needs to hit the trade stack. Did quite a few BGG direct trades before joining the BGB math trade and pretty much solely use that as my avenue of trade these days.

My current top 10 (which I probably update monthly at this point via Pub Meeple).

• Twilight Imperium
• Food Chain Magnate
• Spirit Island
• Brass: Birmingham
• Eclipse: Second Dawn
• Kemet
• Star Wars: Rebellion
• Blood Rage
• Anachrony
• Beyond the Sun

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