DisgRace To The White House is a fast-paced, strategic, and satirical board game for energized progressives everywhere. In between protesting, marching, and crying into your pillow--why not laugh too? DisgRace To The White House provides catharsis and the roadmap to resistance during these trying, rights-depleted, tiny-hands times. Players brush up on...
Brian Train's District Commander is a series of operational games on counterinsurgency situations. The players alternate activation of groups of units (stacks) to perform discrete operations (missions) through the expenditure of Task Points (TP). Some missions are Tactical Missions - straightforward military tasks such as performing patrols, ambushing or...
District Commander: Kandahar simulates the problems facing insurgent and counterinsurgent commanders in southern Afghanistan circa 2009-2010. This is not Brian Train's first or even second game about this conflict, and you might be wondering, what does this one have to offer? We think that the District Commander system - with its emphasis on bluff and...
Brian Train's District Commander is a series of operational games on counterinsurgency situations. The players alternate activation of groups of units (stacks) to perform discrete operations (missions) through the expenditure of Task Points (TP). Some missions are Tactical Missions - straightforward military tasks such as performing patrols, ambushing or...
District Commander: ZNO centers on insurgent and counter-insurgent operations and tactics during the Algerian War of Independence. The game deals unflinchingly with the weapons with which this war was fought – terror cells, double agents, the forced resettlement of ethnic and religious groups – prompting uneasy questions about how governments obtain, hold...
Districts: Barcelona is a game for up to 4 players about the different interests and tensions that transforms a city over time and how they are related. The City works as an ecosystem and its citizens try to adapt and transform it to match their needs. Sometimes, such changes come as a by product of some direct actions, some other times it comes from...
Distrix is an award-winning game of skill in which two players, Red and Blue, battle to control a 6x6 region called The Matrix. The number in each square of the matrix equals power, and Red and Blue are equally powerful. During the game, players use colored tokens to group the squares into 9 districts, one square at a time. As districts are formed, power...
The presidential election of 1860 was one of the most critical in the history of the United States. With civil war looming as a near inevitability, the challenge was to find a way forward after years of degenerating political discourse in the increasingly divided American electorate. In the end, after months of contentious campaigning between four (!)...
Divine Right combines combat, diplomacy, and role-playing into 2-6 hours of fast-paced action as each player attempts to build and hold together an alliance of kings long enough to defeat the other players and win the game. The kingdoms of humans, elves, goblins, dwarves and trolls are pawns in the power games that absolute monarchs play. Ambassadors vie...
Two sets of variant components for Divine Right, and accompanying rules articles by Jon Freeman, published in issue 34 of The Dragon magazine (February, 1980). The 12 ambassador cards give names and diverse personalities to the ambassadors in Divine Right. Each player receives an ambassador personality card at the start of the game. The cards specify...
Starting in 1997, Glenn Rahman designed an extension to his fabulous game Divine Right. Scarlet Empire took place in a different period in that game's world, and further to the south of the original map. It was designed as a stand alone game that could also be played in combination with the other one. The campaign game pits most of the players against the...
Djambi, or Chess of Machiavelli is a game for 4 players that can be played with only 3. There also exists a 5-player version called Pentachiavel. It is a game of treason. Each player is the leader of a political party composed of 9 pieces: 1 Leader 1 Journalist 1 Assassin 1 Provoker 1 Necromobile 4 Activists who roam a 9x9square board where all squares are...