By the 15th of every month, I send out messages to our different board game and RPG group chats to confirm possible game session schedules for the coming month. Gaming is serious business and it takes a lot of effort to find common time with other players whether it's an online RPG played over a Google Meet call or gaming together in person. And finding ways to optimize this effort is something I'll always appreciate.
After hearing it mentioned in many Watch It Played videos, I finally decided to sign up for Game Night Picks, which is literally a site that hopes to make it easier to plan game nights. As we have a board game night this Saturday, we're immediately putting the site to the test, although we don't have all of our players onboard just yet. One of the great things about it is how it integrates with my Board Game Geek data, thus I've managed to import both my board game library (which I diligently maintain on BGG) along with at least 5,000 of our tracked plays (this goes back to 2015 at least). It still doesn't solve some of the weirder quirks of BGG game tracking like how other BGG users can't see my logged plays when I've tagged their usernames, but there are still a lot of fun features.
More often than not, we figure out what games we're going to bring to a game night in the hour or so before we drive out to the gaming venue. Of course, we check with the group if they have any requests that we need to keep in mind, but more often than not, we just bring what we want to bring or just gamble on bringing. The site at least lets us "pitch" games to some degree since we can look at the group ranking to see if there are enough interested players. Our friends will generally be open to playing just about anything, but naturally, certain games will resonate with them more. And we might as well lean in that direction, beyond any games that we just want to get to the table for personal reasons.
Aside, we re-watched Rogue One because of Andor, and oh man, the movie feels even better with the full context of all the other shows that have reinforced things. Just look at Saw Gerrara, for example. When we first met him in this movie, he just seemed crazy and almost irrational. But after all the other stories in Clone Wars, Rebels, and now Andor, his mental state feels all the more justified. And given the last three episodes of Andor Season 2 and Rogue One, we now have a detailed timeline of events all the way to A New Hope. That is absolutely brilliant.
What a good time to be a geek.
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