It’s how they figure out who gets to sleep with who

It's really just about finding groups of people who can show up on time and stay focused for 1-3 hours, depending.

having tried board games and such, I can confirm that the straight hetro male nerds did not in fact lead to a poly love heap.

I did poly for a long time and wasn't that into board games. But yeah a lot of poly people are into them.

I'm more into tabletop RPGs, but never achieved the dream of a polycule party.

Nowadays I wouldn't even recommend crossing the streams that way.

It's because we know it isn't cheating to play within house rules so long as everyone agrees 😉

Maybe being into board games is the default state and monogamists have a board game deficit

Isn't that the guy from Bames Jond?

Tabletop gamers are very social, but still nerds. Typical tabletop game also has a lot of rules that need to be discussed and interpreted before playing, and if you want to regularly play you need 3-6 people who can consistently show up and focus for a number of hours.

Polyamorous people are the sort of people who have a very clear and precise picture of what they feel counts as cheating and what their personal boundaries are, and who before beginning a relationship will sit down and litigate the rules and boundaries of the relationship, revisiting them as needed later on or as people are added to or leave the polycule. The ones who don't do this tend to not be in poly relationships for long. Additionally, speaking for myself here as an ethically monogamous person, you kinda need to have the spoons to deal with lots of people having big feelings around you (good/bad doesn't matter, all intense feelings are intense) which weeds out the introverts.

The venn diagram of these two groups of people isn't a circle, but the overlap is really huge. Highly social, likely autistic, respects rules, likes learning. And add to that people who are dating are already spending a whole lot of time with each other, which removes one of the difficulties of board games.

Damn, I guess it's my turn to feel called out. We've got a floor to ceiling shelf that is filled with board games, and we're looking at getting another.

But is every huge board game nerd you've met poly?

FWIW, I know several board game nerds and one person who is poly, but AFAIK none of them are into the other thing.

I think they cum together 😉

I was into boardgames way before I knew I was poly.

Goddamnit. This is so fucking true. Gonna post this to our poly chat.

I mean, you can have a board game playing friend group where you only fuck one or two of them...

Easier & enough people are the same thing.

Much like two of the thruple having sex with me is just as easy as me creating my own thruple.

Listen, it's a really convenient date for four. Like, I highly recommend a board game bar for everyone who's got a four way date coming up.

Board games alter your hormones

Is it weird to admit I'm not a huge fan of boardgames...? Am I the only one?

That's like a chicken and egg question. I think the answer for that was dinosaurs

Me showing this to my girlfriends

¿por qué no los dos?

Humans are so busy looking for Cause->effect we often miss feedback systems Cause<->Effect

it comes from the same origin (the Zen character) which is interested in scientific exchange (board games are a stand-in for this) and organizing (which is significantly furthered by polyamory)

The egg

Once you find a good group, you do what you need to to keep the game going.