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2. Board Game: Unbound: Endless War [Average Rating:8.86 Unranked]

Imani Thomas
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Posted Fri Sep 6, 2013 8:02 pm

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Steve S 4 out of 5 ratings are by new users who all rated it a 10.... you'll have to excuse me if I find that
(Shadoglare)
suspicious.

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Imani Thomas I know at least 2 of those are people I've playtested with and asked to Honestly rate the game. not
(lathomas64)
sure about the other two though. If you end up trying it and don't like it please rate it and possibly
leave some feedback.

edit: also it looks like 3 out of 5 to me.

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3. Board Game: Tactical GameX [Average Rating:8.66 Unranked] [Average Rating:8.66 Unranked]

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4. Board Game: The Legend of Zelda: Clockwork Realm [Average Rating:8.65 Overall Rank:11619]
Steve S
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5. Board Game: Doctor Who: Solitaire Story Game (Second Edition) [Average Rating:8.59 Overall Rank:6020]
simon cogan The classic PNP game is now available as a second edition!
(dragoncymru)

A solitaire paragraph-booklet adventure game where the player

 so ta e pa ag ap boo et ad e tu e ga e e e t e p aye
assumes the role of the intrepid Time Lord himself - the Doctor!

This web-published game is played using four booklets: Rules,

Adventures, Enemies, and Events. Two six-sided dice are also
required.

An Adventure begins when the TARDIS lands at a location, be it

modern-day London, the wilds of Sherwood Forest, or the distant
planet of Raxacoricofallapatorius. Through actions such as Explore
and Investigate, references in the Adventure book will lead you to
paragraphs in the Events book, allowing you to gather Allies and
discover the plots that are in progress.

Eventually you will reveal the Enemy, each of which has its own 1-
page section in the Enemy book explaining how you might
discover their dastardly Goal. New Actions then open up, allowing
you to Plan, Research, and (hopefully) defeat the Enemy. If you fail
to reveal and Defeat the Enemy within 12 Turns, the Doctor is killed
- maybe your next regeneration will do better (or at least be better
dressed)!

All 4 Core books have been redesigned for 2nd Edition with
content from previous expansions plus brand new material from
the 11th and 12th Doctor's eras.
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6. Board Game: Rusty Industry [Average Rating:8.58 Unranked]

Damian Sulej Rusty Industry Kickstarter 17th of April 2019.
(Entuzjasta)

Designer: Damian Sulej

Artist: Joanna Kropacz, Damian Sulej
Publisher: Yodeling Ogre Games
Players: 3 - 4
Play Time: 60 - 90 minutes
 Description :

* Buy buildings. Produce;

* Sell wood, iron, bricks and other goods to your opp
* Build and upgrade buildings to create an economy;
* Buy contracts and produce goods for export to score
* Trade with others by getting money for your goods;
* Exchange your goods.

In Rusty Industry, you are encouraged to trade by a special scoring

system.

Print and Play file:

http://bit.ly/rustyindustrypnp

Rulebook:
http://bit.ly/RustyIndustryRulebook
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Gareth Meney Does this link work?:

(gmeney)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/rustyindustry

They have the PnP files on the Facebook page in the files section.
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Katrina Lo It is working now. Thank you so much.

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7. Board Game: Pin-up Rummy [Average Rating:8.57 Unranked]

In Pin-up Rummy, you are a vintage pin-up painting collector, and

you want to have the very best collection that no one ever had.

Arif Nezih Savi

(ibiliss) The game is played over a series of rounds. In each round, players
draw fresh hands of cards, take turns playing cards until the round
is finished, and then do the scoring. First to reach 100 (or higher)
points, wins.

On your turn you have three things to do (in this order): Draw, Play
then Discard.

There are 4 different “Asset Cards” and 9 different “Type of

Women” cards, each card comes with a unique vintage pin-up girl
painting.
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8. Board Game: Merkez [Average Rating:8.53 Unranked]

Arif Nezih Savi Inspired by the local elections in Turkey and empty promises, in this
(ibiliss)
game you are an Urban Planner and your goal is to impress the
current Mayor by getting the most points with your blueprint,
showing plans to build schools with bike roads, animal hospitals,
fundings, provide free Wi-Fi, assign Civil Servants to hospitals and
schools. Every building needs civilians, you will get minus points if
you have unemployed people(a civilian not assigned to a building),
even if you can't build a building, you have to build a
road/pavement on every turn, whatever curve the die allows.

Eventually trying to be the next Mayor..

The game consists of several rounds. Each round the players take
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their turns one by one, starting with the first player and continuing
clockwise. During a round the following phases happen in this
order:

Throw dice
First Player claims a Promise Card (optional)
Players claim regions according to the dice and draw symbols

End of the round

Score points by drawing icons in the colored regions, the game

ends when no free spots remain on any player's player sheet. The
player with the highest score at the end of the game wins!
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Bill Nickeas
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Good little game 👍
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9. Board Game: Age of Sovereigns [Average Rating:8.43 Unranked]

Sergey Dembitskyi At its core, "The Age of Sovereigns" is a military strategy, but the
(Serj_Ukr)
game is not limited strictly to combating. An important part of
gameplay is the construction of buildings (common and special
buildings, 26 total). Due to these constructions players can multiply
their wealth and / or fame, along with the development of the army.
The game is divided into various stages. In the era of "Kingdoms
Rising" players gradually get bonuses specific to the kingdom. In
the era of the "End of Times" all events are resolved. These two
steps constitute the main part of the game, when the players give a
variety of orders and fight. In the era of "Destiny" victory points and
fines are scored.
The dice are not used during the battles, so the game is not that
much random
The game has low downtime and relatively short playing time (30
 e ga e as o do t e a d e at e y s o t p ay g t e (30
minutes per player).

GAME COMPONENTS (For Two Players):

A. PnP files include:
1) 3 sovereign cards for each player;
2) 5 destiny cards;
3) 40 combat cards;
4) 8 kingdom bonus cards;
5) 14 End of Times cards;
6) 2 sets of 10 order tokens for each kingdom;
7) 2 sets of 33 building tokens for each kingdom;
8) 2 sets of 15 army unit tokens for each kingdom;
9) 2 sets of 2 (Barbarians) and 3 (Paladins) special army unit tokens
for each kingdom;
10) 5 rebellion tokens;
11) other tokens: 6 revolutionary tokens, 9 plague tokens, 1 glory
token, 2 Great Conqueror tokens; 6 defend token.
12) 1 playfield for two players.
B. Components NOT Provided (May be Taken From Other Games):
Tokens to represent gold talents. Besides, it is preferable to
substitute the tokens of common and special army units by the
miniatures from other games (we use Risk: Godstorm).
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10. Board Game: 1849: The Game of Sicilian Railways [Average Rating:8.27 Overall Rank:1893]

Andre Viana A deep 18XX. All material in files section.

(Andre Viana)

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Ben Draper
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clearclaw wrote:

And Vellani (and Manzini) have been found...

Know if a third 18xx is in the works???

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J C Lawrence The last project was 1827 Jr. I'm not aware of any sign that's been picked up again (I have the rules
(clearclaw)
here -- it is pretty raw). Additionally AIR Vellani is entirely out of the game of 18xx and Manzini is only
slightly active these days.

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11. Board Game: Doomgloom Dungeon [Average Rating:8.22 Unranked]

Steve S
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Posted Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:02 am

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12. Board Game: Paiko [Average Rating:8.13 Unranked]

A 2 player strategy game designed to encourage changing tactics

and dynamic strategy to adapt to the other players moves. Perfect
information.

Marianne Waage
(yamaraus)

Posted Mon Feb 27, 2017 6:09 am

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13. Board Game: Root [Average Rating:8.10 Overall Rank:28]

Ivan Root is an asymmetric game of adventure and war for 2-4 players.
(ivan111)
PNP is available here http://bit.ly/RootPrintandPlay

upd. Thanks Martin (tawnos76)!

3rd public PNP release
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/105o0lXRfUkaHb0mskIIS...

upd2. Thanks Piotr Wołoszun (pwoloszun)!

Root Final PNP release
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1i9-iCUDzfGMs7HjFHhah...
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Steve S
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fugixi wrote:
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fugixi wrote:

Have the PnP files been removed?

The links does not seem to work for me.

The Google Drive link in the above comment appears to still work, just checked.

Edited Sat Feb 1, 2020 3:46 pm

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(fugixi)
Shadoglare wrote:

fugixi wrote:

Have the PnP files been removed?

The links does not seem to work for me.

The Google Drive link in the above comment appears to still work, just checked.

Must have been something temporary. They work for me now as well.

Thanks.
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14. Board Game: Project Nos [Average Rating:7.90 Unranked]

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15. Board Game: Star Trek: The Dice Game [Average Rating:7.81 Overall Rank:4364]

Steve S
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Posted Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:34 pm

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MARK FERGUSON There are so many files to download I am just lost. Can you please recommend which ones to
(larky1960)
download in order? sure would appreciate any input

Mark
Posted Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:08 am
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David Griffin Been a while since I downloaded them, but you need the rules. I think they are here
(carbon_dragon)
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/127058/star-trek-dice...

Then if you're not going to get a mat from Artscow, you need the game board
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/146810/colour-game-bo...

Then you need some deck of cards. The basic cards are
herehttps://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/146811/colour-game-ca...

Though you could get this deck from artscow I think and probably the Animated series deck and
the original series deck, and I think there is a next gen deck there somewhere.

Then you need dice so you either have to have some done or get Joe Propati (Kingspud on BGG)
 Then you need dice, so you either have to have some done, or get Joe Propati (Kingspud on BGG)
to do some laser carved dice for you or you need sticker dice which I suspect you will need this for
(haven't tried these, you can also make your own stickers)
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/132239/dice-stickers or you can use the dice normally
and refer to the rules.

I also see the other decks on the file section too. My favorite is the TAS deck (the animated series).

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16. Board Game: Space Miners [Average Rating:7.80 Unranked]

Steve S
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17. Board Game: Hidden Empires II [Average Rating:7.79 Unranked]

Greg Turner Hidden Empires II is a game for 2 to 6 players where each player
(Gregor)
assumes the role of an ant colony. You will guide your colony as it
attempts to grow and thrive in a hostile environment while
competing for resources with neighboring colonies. Your colony
will employ unique survival strategies based on those of real world
ant species. To win the game, you must give your species the best
chance of survival by producing more reproductive ants than your
opponents.

Hidden Empires II is available for free download, print, and play

from https://interformic.com/he/
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18. Board Game: Castle Itter [Average Rating:7.77 Overall Rank:4163]

Steve S
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Posted Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:12 pm

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19. Board Game: D100 Dungeon [Average Rating:7.75 Overall Rank:2867]

Steve S
(Shadoglare)

Posted Thu Sep 6, 2018 4:02 am

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20. Board Game: Valor & Victory [Average Rating:7.74 Overall Rank:4322]
Steve S Seems to run very high on the list of free wargames.
(Shadoglare)
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Ove Hillep
And now, after a while, the author - Barry - is on it again with new ideas and stuff. V&V D+1 will have
(hillep)
little bit modified armour values and new counter sizes.
It's game worth playing and it's good to see that the author is back in business

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Gary McCammon This is very much "Squad Leader Lite", and I mean that in a positive way. Lots of WWII squad level
(tog23)
fighting without all the cruft that a certain Advanced game loads on. And it's free! How can you
lose?
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21. Board Game: Tabernacle [Average Rating:7.73 Unranked]

Steve S Appears it was removed from the list for some reason... re-adding.
(Shadoglare)

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22. Board Game: Gunfighter [Average Rating:7.65 Overall Rank:13108]

Name: Gunfighter
Number of Players: Two players
Game Time: 15-30 minutes
Genre: Non-collectible card game
Theme: Wild West
Components: 54 cards, 6 paper clips
Derrick
(Sunseteer) Gunfighter is a light (15-30 minute) non-collectible card game for
two players that features high stakes dueling through simultaneous
action selection.

During each game, the player’s goal is threefold: increase two main
stats (accuracy and bullets), successfully land shots on the enemy,
and avoid the enemy's shots.

Although the game is easy to learn, the many combinations of

individual playstyles and possible card variations create high
replayability, tension during card reveal, and strategic depth.

Sign-up for the free print & play files here:

https://sunseteer.itch.io/gunfighter
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23. Board Game: Dicelantis [Average Rating:7.64 Unranked]

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24. Board Game: Rainbow Deck [Average Rating:7.63 Unranked]

Chen Changcai If you are interested in short filler card or board games, or portable
(ccube78)
boardgames to bring along on travel trips, then the Rainbow Deck
is for you! It is basically a 100-games-in-1 cardgame system.

The Rainbow Deck (RD) is a cardgame system that has a total of

162 cards. There are 12 suits with each suit having 13 ranks, and 6
Joker cards. The suits are represented by both colour and number.
The ranks are from 0 to 9, J to K. The cards also numbered from 0
to 119, and have letters from A to Z.
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25. Board Game: Chain Reaction 3.0 [Average Rating:7.60 Overall Rank:10424] [Average Rating:7.60 Unranked]
Mr Mahon Free introduction into the world of Two Hour Wargames.
(mahon)

Much improvement over the previous versions of the game,

streamlined rules, useble for head-to-head, cooperative, or solitaire
gaming.

It was intended to be played with miniatures, but you are free to

use tokens, meeples, card cutouts, paper miniatures, or anything
you can come up with, so it can easily be a free print-and-play
game.
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Steve S Removed Imperial Harvest - no longer available for download.

(Shadoglare)
Removed Kokono - fell below minimum rating.

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