Where to ask about a game that straddles the line?

Question

I have fond memories of Wizards, by Avalon Hill. To me it's basically an RPG - your characters have stats and levels, roll dice for random encounters, etc. It has some issues, though, so I want to adjust the rules to make it more appealing to my pals.

If I said it was a board game, I probably wouldn't get much argument as there is a board involved. However, the specific question I want to ask SE involves homebrewing the rules to differentiate the spellcasting classes more, which seems like a topic people here would be better suited to answer. What's my best option here?

Answer 1

Wizards is unambiguously a board game. (A very cool looking board game!) It's not unlike more recent examples of games that contain elements that look like RPG elements, such as Descent, Mice and Mystics, and Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft Board Game¹, which are definitely board games despite passing resemblances.

The place to ask about house rules for Wizards would be:

• Board and Card Games SE, where they have a tag for house rules.

  It may be hard to ask an SE-appropriate question for what you're looking for though, as it may be more on the idea-generation side. In that case you might try…

• The forums attached to the BoardGameGeek listing for Wizards.

^{1. Castle Ravenloft and its kin have specifically been discussed before on meta: Are questions about role-playing derivative board games on topic?}