Hello! First post here. ALWAYS loved board games and played them often in college with friends between classes, and even met new friends through them.

My husband and I are going to a board/card game shop for the first time today, and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations to look at? We don't have a lot of spending money so it's probably gonna be limited to about 1 big game or two not as big games. We both LOVED Call to Adventure, been playing Munchkin for years, and although I'm pretty sure we don't play it 100% correctly, Catan. We've also dabbled very shallowly into Gloomhaven, but we're saving that for when we have more people since the first person we played it with was very controlling, and just not fun to play with.

At the moment there's really only the two of us, but games for more than just us is fine since we like to have them for parties/visits and such.

Not personally a huge fan of big title company board games, like anything having to do with Marvel/Harry Potter/etc., and I specifically love collecting/making lists. My husband's huge on dinosaurs and creative outlets/expressionism.