Descent: Legends of the Dark – Ghosts of Greyhaven can be incorporated as a side story in the Act I campaign included in Descent: Legends of the Dark, or it can be played as a standalone adventure, although presumably using components from the earlier standalone game. This expansion will add a series of additional quests to the base game revolving around a...
From the author's introduction: "To create the game I used an approach similar to that used by Carl Jung when he philosophized about the I Ching and the concept of synchronicity... To put myself in the right frame of mind for creating the rune game I first concentrated on Odin and Chess. In Nordic mythology Odin is a wise god who brought the runes to...
Massive board shows Ulysses' voyage from Troy to Ithaca. Players take on the roles of Minerva (helping him) or Neptune (hampering him). The latter secretes 8 perils about the Mediterranean. Then Minerva's wind blows the fleet of six ships from the shores of Troy. The fleet is driven hither and yon by the players' competing winds. There can even be...
Odyssey is played by two players on a hexagonal shaped board comprised of 91 hexagons, six to each side. One side of the board is the home row for black, the opposite row is home for white. Each player begins with six pieces on the board, one on each hex of their home row, and four pieces in reserve, which may enter the game later beginning with the far...
Of Stone and Wood is a quick, light, 2-player strategy game that takes 5 minutes to learn and 5-10 minutes to play enabling a "best of 3" competition to be easily played at lunch. Players are moving their pieces, swapping for adjacent opposition or mercenary pieces, or jumping adjacent pieces in order to form a line of 5 of their pieces, but be careful...
At the beginning of an operation, the commanding officer determines the point from which the operation will begin. This is referred to as the line of departure. In this game, players discover what happens once the soldiers under their command move ... Off the Line. Off the Line is a wargame of low-to-moderate complexity that depicts man-to-man combat...
Off the Rails is a strategic, competitive, tile placement, roller-coaster of a board game for 1-4 players recommended for ages 12+. Players control a team of gem-hungry goblins racing uncontrollable mine carts underground to retrieve the most jewels before the earth collapses into the deadly chasm below! Easy to pick up and play but with a compelling...
You (and possibly coworkers) go into work one day and come to find that your entire company has been taken over by robots. You must explore the office to find items fight robots, and defeat your regional manager. In this game you get 4 game pieces to choose from, The stapler, The Hole Punch, The Staple Remover, and The Binder Clip. In a room you have a...
This game dates back to at least 1861, when it was published by John Jaques & Son as The Royal Garrison Game. It is an extension of The Siege Game, a.k.a. German Tactics which itself seems descended from Fox and Geese. In this game, 17 points of its 67-point game board are set aside as a garrison. Three officers begin play in the garrison, and fifty...
Chess-like game but played with 11 pieces instead of 16. King is replaced by Quarterback. Queen is replaced by Fullback. Rook is replaced by Halfback. Knight is replaced by Center. Bishop is replaced by End. Pawn is replaced by Lineman. Capturing a piece is "blocking a man out of play". Castling is "quarterback protection". Check is "Quarterback under...