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hyphz
Aug 5, 2003

Number 1 Nerd Tear Farmer 2022.

Keep it up, champ.

Also you're a skeleton warrior now. Kree.
Unlockable Ben
At the risk of feeding the trolls, board games are mostly about the in-person social experience. Plus, the fact that for a lot of people computers mean work, and so getting away from the screen is a break.

As for RPGs, though, I think that computer RPGs have had an interesting effect in that to some extent TRPGs have been forced to adapt to focus on areas that CRPGs can't deal with, and surrender those that CRPGs simply do better. Thus the larger number of story based games coming out and, while D&D 5e is still the most popular game, a lot of emphasis on "loose" DMing in that game.

Although there is also this:

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