I'd like to make a desperate appeal to all Board Game Designers and Publishers to include a List Of Contents in all the Board Games they create and/or market.
As a Board Game Seller for both new, old and vintage games, one of the worse things both myself and many of my customers find, is the lack of what is exactly included with a game.
Terms like "Deck of Cards", or "over 300 die-cut Counters" and other non-specific terms make it (in many cases) almost impossible to know if a game is complete or not.
Thanx
Chris.....a.k.a. Smorgy
As a Board Game Seller for both new, old and vintage games, one of the worse things both myself and many of my customers find, is the lack of what is exactly included with a game.
Terms like "Deck of Cards", or "over 300 die-cut Counters" and other non-specific terms make it (in many cases) almost impossible to know if a game is complete or not.
Thanx
Chris.....a.k.a. Smorgy
I can see how it's useful to include that. Unfortunately, except for those self-publishing, designers will rarely have much input into packaging. Another problem in the "over 300 counters" case could be that they do them by weight, to avoid counting, and thus don't know the exact number but just that there will be at least enough to play. This is the case with Puerto Rico's colonist chips, which are usually over-supplied by 2-6 per copy (woe betide people who assume they just have the number for the max. no. of players!).
Richard.