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Change the name of this board?

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theory:
There's a lot of non-boardgames that are included in this forum already.  There's also a lot of games topics in the General Discussion forum that would have to all be moved in here if this is expanded (e.g., Pokemon, roguelike, etc.)

What do we think?

Kirian:
I'm going to skip voting on this because the line--if there is one--is too blurry.  Assuming we take "board games" to include card games as well (and I'm pretty sure we're including Dominion, so yeah), Hearthstone and Prismata are card games just as much as Magic or Dominion are, despite the fact that their only playspace is online.

I've never even seen a physical copy of Through the Ages in the wild, but that doesn't mean it's a video game.

amalloy:
I'm with Kirian here: I think the name already does include other card games. I know Hanabi isn't a "board game", because it has cards and no board, but nobody would blink if you brought it with you to a local board-game night: it's the same kind of game, even with different physical bits. If you broaden the name to something wider than "board games", do you want it to include stuff like LoL? I'd be against that, myself: it's such a different type of game than what's currently in this forum. And if you don't want it to include that, the current name is fine already.

mpsprs:
I suppose one option is to have child boards of this board:

One for board games
One for non-board games
One for arguing into which of the above categories a particular game falls

Witherweaver:
Can we use the board for hide-and-seek strategy discussion?

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