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Throwaway Legacy - legacy games as a symbol of our throwaway society (Topic Discussion)
Description
Legacy games have probably had their golden days. They were something new that hadn't been done before in our hobby. They promised a unique experience of a game that would change as you played it. Not only that, the change would be permanent, requiring you not to only remove components, but actually destroy them, or put stickers into the rulebook, onto the main game board or otherwise apply them to make an irreversible change to the game. However, as exciting as the idea was, it never sat comfortably with me. In this article, I want to talk about this in more detail.
Read the full article here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2026/04/28/throwaway-legacy-legacy-games-as-a-symbol-of-our-throwaway-society-topic-discussion/
Useful Links
- Risk Legacy: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/105134/risk-legacy
- Pandemic Legacy: Season 1: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161936/pandemic-legacy-season-1
- Dicebreaker article about the inspiration behind Risk Legacy: https://www.dicebreaker.com/series/risk-legacy/news/risk-legacy-inspired-by-clue
- The Waste Makers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waste_Makers
- Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/11/27/oath-chronicles-of-empire-and-exile-saturday-review/
- Sleeping Gods review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/03/27/sleeping-gods-saturday-review/
Music
Intro Music: Bomber (Sting) by Riot (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/)
Music: "Quiet", "Reverie" and "Success" by AShamaluevMusic.
Website: https://www.ashamaluevmusic.com
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