If you listened to our podcast, eps. 000, available now (plug) we talked about what we enjoy about board games. One of those things is just the smell of the contents. It's a box opening tradition for me and I'm sure (hoping) others. This is the same as that new book smell, or new comic book smell, new car smell, new carpet smell ... you get the drift (pun intended). There have been a few occasions though were my olfactory senses were bombarded with a VERY nasty smell. This was the case for me when I opened the World of Warcraft miniature game box.. and every subsequent miniature booster box from Upper Deck's game. I don't know if you remember this game and it gave me a fairly reasonable play experience (yes.. this means I played it 2 x -- that's all 'reasonable play' experiences give me). I'm pretty sure it was the paint on the mini's that attacked me. It was nasty!! You might as well of shoved my head into a vat of latex paint can. I'm pretty sure that's why this game didn't take off at the time, not that it was bad, just the death toll on players was high! I jest of course, but I'm sure some of you have had similar experiences. What is your WORST miniature/board game sensory overload?
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