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Shoutout to the guy who says all deck builders need a timer
I keep seeing people at the local game store in Portland open a new deck builder and take 45 minutes per turn. Everyone acts like slow play is fine, but it kills the game for the rest of us. A 30-minute timer per player is plenty for something like Dominion, and my group has been using one for 6 months now. Has anyone else tried setting time limits at their table?
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veraw4722d ago
Honestly, that whole "slow play is fine" attitude is exactly why I get why you're using timers. My buddy Mark was in a game shop in Austin last year, they started a Clank! game and one guy took 15 minutes just deciding which card to buy. The whole game took almost three hours for something that should be 45 minutes. Mark said the guy kept apologizing but then doing it again the next turn. He literally stopped going to that store for game nights because of it. Timers would have saved that whole situation. People don't realize how much a single slow player can ruin the vibe for everyone.
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brookethomas22d ago
You know, I used to be one of those people who was all "let people play at their own pace, it's supposed to be fun" but that Clank! story honestly changed my mind a little. I had a similar thing happen with a friend of a friend during a game of Wingspan where he'd stare at his hand for like five minutes every turn and it just killed the whole mood. It's not even about being mean, it's that one person's indecision (or whatever it is) makes everyone else sit there bored and annoyed, and that ruins the fun way faster than a timer ever could. Timers on every turn feels like overkill, but having a gentle 2 minute limit for big decisions? Yeah, I get it now.
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