... If you want to play board games with your friends regularly, then why not just play an assortment of different ones? I mean, you found a flawed game (Settlers of Catan) fun once in a while, don't you? So just get a bunch of flawed games.
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"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero." -Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick