>Board games based on books or movies Yay, or Nay

Why not?

>>51006167

Artistic conversions dilute the essence of a property.

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>**VomitS**

>>51006230
This is one of those sentences where I understand every word individually but can't figure out how they fit together. What is even "essence of a property"?

>>51006349
That's Christopher Tolkien, the current head of Tolkien estate, who says the books should have not been turned into movies, and they should never be turned into movies.

>>51006349

The spirit of a thing.
Conversions tend to be 'lossy'.

Something in its original format tends to have valuable features that can only exist in that format. These are lost when the conversion occurs.

Battlestar Galactica board game is fucking amazing, so yay?

>>51006444

Could it have been even better had they not been beholden to the Battlestar Galactica setting and story?

>>51006437
Okay, that I understand. But a game doesn't replace the original format, it's still there, unaltered. So I don't see how adaptions existing is a problem.

>>51006460
Well, thats probably subjective, but I thought that the fact that it was BSG helped me get into the game a bit more.

>>51006152
>>51006255

Sweet Jesus

>>51006460
Nah, I think shouting "COLLUSION! CYLON COLLUSION!" at other players and "So say we all" at the end of a turn is pretty key. So is rolling a hard six.