A mercenary company is stranded within a star system as a cold war heats up and results in the destruction of the only wormgate in and out of the system. Not wanting to stick around and get caught up in an unprofitable war, they take a 100-year loop out into deep space and back in stasis. They awake to find no new wormgate, fractured civilizations, and...
Dark Stars is played on both the Interstellar and the Interplanetary level so as to place the full range of space exploration and conflict possibilities in the hands of the players. At the time we did Dark Stars, I played a lot of board games, but almost none of them SF because they were so bad. They routinely ignored pretty much everything having to do...
You play a ranger who is trying to save villagers by navigating through a wilderness that is rapidly being taken over by a dark force. Luck and strategy are required to survive the journey and fight the monsters. You must navigate by rolling a dice and filling in the hex grid with the corresponding pathways. Every round one hex is eliminated making it...
Dawn of the Battleship: Monroe's Legacy is a scenario supplement for the Admiralty Trilogy Nautical wargame Dawn of the Battleship. Twenty-nine scenarios cover not only historical battles, like Manila Bay (“There Came Upon Us Numberless Projectiles”) and Santiago de Cuba, but hypothetical scenarios based on historical disputes that almost led to war, and...
The Earth was recently attacked by aliens, and all defense systems seem ineffective against alien weaponry. As a result, governments worldwide have recruited explorers to venture into ancient ruins scattered across the globe in search of lost civilizations, hoping to uncover methods to resist the alien invasion. In this game, players take on the roles of...
Dawn of Worlds is a game where a group of players take the role of gods creating a fantasy world. The game begins with a basic map drawn on a large piece of paper and one player is assigned to record the changes to the map as the game progresses. Each turn players roll dice to gain points and spend those points to alter the landscape, make creatures or...
Party game that has correct answers but I expect the wrong answers provide more amusement. Each guest is given a card that tells the story of a day's outing to a zoo. However the story is punctuated with blank words and the players must hand in a card with all the missing words added correctly. Each missing word is the name of an animal. For example; "......
It’s time for a break! Daydream is a cozy roll-and-write. Fill your cloud grid simultaneously adding the values of the dice. Make the right choices so that each cloud line contains only different numbers. Even better, if the numbers are consecutive, you create a perfect line. However, if a number appears more than once, the line is lost. Draw items on the...
Description from the publisher: Daydream Dungeon is a single-player dungeon crawl played entirely with a single piece of paper, a 6-sided die, and a pencil. A key feature is that the game requires no erasing, so once an adventure is completed, the player can see every action they took on the page. Players begin by designing a character using the games five...
From the Designer of Maze of the Red Mage: A Solitaire Dungeon Adventure! and Tower of the Dread Mage: Dead & Alive is a solitaire game of survival in a Zombie infested town. It is a stripped down travel version of a multi-player boardgame I created. It all went wrong driving into town. A kid stepped out from between two parked cars. I tried to stop in...
Dead Planet Ceres is a print-and-play tactical team-building game, pitting players against one another in battles to see who is left standing by the end. Players create teams Frames and Modules through collecting and printing out 'Pattern Groups'. Then, each player constructs a team of three Frames- powerful exoskeletons inhabited by the ghosts of the dead...