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lori

Fedi I have a weird request that is hard to just search for, so I want to crowdfund some suggestions, because what I'm looking for is...weird to even categorize.

I want suggestions for things that are
- Competitive games
- That utilize toys or other physical components (besides, say, just cards or board game pieces)
- That can be customized or tuned in some way

Examples of what I mean, some of which these categories are really the only things they have in common, are:

- Slot cars, mini 4wd, RC car racing
- Bakugan, Beyblade, Bdaman
- Robot fighting

They can either be branded packaged goods, or homebrew/open/freeform kinds of things. But I really love these types of physical object games aside from traditional board games, and I like customizing them, either by having components that can be swapped around for different loadouts, or things that are completely custom.

27 July at 2:48 | Open on hackers.town
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lori

(this sort of description is why I refer to darts as Beyblades for adults, because at the end of the day you get the same fun of combining three parts that come in cool colors or whatever and affect the movement of the object)

27 July at 2:48 | Open on hackers.town
lori

I also thought about adding Subbuteo or Blood Bowl, but then I realized I was just adding a can of worms of miniatures games, and that's a much easier category for me to find on my own, so I didn't want a ton of miniature games flooding out other suggestions. Those two just feel more unique because they're sports not wargames lol. If you know of some really bizarre miniature games outside of the typical wargame stuff then maybe I'll allow it.

27 July at 2:51 | Open on hackers.town
lori

Also please boost the OP so I can get more spread, I really could not think of the best tags to put this in without kinda pigeonholing it some

27 July at 2:53 | Open on hackers.town
lori

On the topic of like...competitive toy games, Bandai actually did make the Beyblade of darts in the 2000s, it was called Battle Darts and it had plastic tipped darts for kids that had really anime looking designs. I have a small collection of them. They also have cards with abilities on them and the rule book did not tell me a single fucking thing about how those were supposed to be used lol.

27 July at 2:55 | Open on hackers.town
campbell

@lori Paintball guns and lacrosse sticks have these qualities, and I’m realizing that I was way into this exact kind of thing growing up because I wanted both despite having basically no real way to use them

27 July at 3:10 | Open on elekk.xyz
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