Board Games

[SheikhJahbooty]

Quick question:

Which RPGs use boards. They could call it play sheets or whatever, just so long as it is an image of some sort that one interacts with, not by writing on it, but usually through placing or moving tokens on it.

So far all I can think of are:

Dream Merchants - Petrasko's Star Chart
Society of Dreamers - The Ouija-like board that determines scenes
Walkabout - The Waking / Dreaming graphic that Secret Tokens are placed on

Lately I've been discouraged by the difficulties involved in making mock-up card decks, so I've been making wooden game boards, for things like Tock, Go, Arimaa, Backgammon.

Partially I would feel too cool for school if I owned an ornate wooden shellacked board for playing Dream Merchants. And partially I'm hoping that owning attractive paraphernalia related to one or more RPGs would make it easier to start up a game with non-role-playing friends.

[koipond]

One of the games I'm working on right now, Air, uses a couple of board like mechanics.

The first is the space station, you build the rooms and then move your token on the board in order to show where you are. The second board like element is a downward spiral which gives you an actual representation of where you are in the narrative, how close to the ending you are and how close the Ghost is to you currently.

I think it's a couple of great idea, though I do have an aversion to fiddly bits in a game, and I think maybe more RPGs should figure out how to incorporate them.

[SheikhJahbooty]

Apologies to Sebastian Hickey

Hell For Leather is one of those games that I regularly find I should be talking about.

"I want a game that uses a clear physical representation of increased tension, is played on a special board and incorporates player skill into the competence of the characters."

"You mean Hell for Leather?"

"I hadn't thought of that, but yes."

[koipond]

Dread. It uses a Jenga Tower and when someone knocks the tower over then they die.

There's nothing else involved with it really. Just a questionnaire, and a Jenga Tower.