Fantastic video, very insightful! Hopefully this will become the de-facto standard video on this subject.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Can't wait! 🎲

Splendor Duel is great as well (or regular Splendor, but Duel is even better with 2 players).

But our favorite is Dominion. Works great with 2 players.

These days, when I hear the name Michael Bolton I just think of Office Space.

Amazing! Cool cemetery, too. Never had a chance to see it myself. They were way ahead of their time.

Saw them live once at a festival in Germany. Very popular there, too.

Doors

Fun... 😩
Been working on my taxes this weekend as well, if it's any consolation.

Wow, that's quite a big spectrum of systems, genres, and play styles! Good luck!

Do board games count? Played a round of Clank! Catacombs with my wife.

Also this one. Turns out Douglas Adams was quite prophetic...
www.goodreads.com/quotes/72048...

Off to a strong start!

For me, the usability (making it easy to get the info I need) is a much bigger factor than the cost (having to get multiple books).
But there might also be a difference in perception: one approach would classify your game as a generic system, the other as concrete systems that share core mechanics.

OGA/OG is a good counter-example we're both familiar with. OGA totally works, and I get why they chose that route. But there's probably 50% overlap between the books, and it takes effort to pick out the new rules (e.g. extended rolls), to use them with OG. Now I need 2 books at the table, not 1.

I strongly prefer having the core rules and setting separated. I think it's cleaner that way, and easier to pick out the setting-specific differences and rules additions.
(But that might just be my software engineer brain speaking, which always tries hard to remove any duplicated information...)