Incompetech

 https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/

When I need a quick grid, this is very convenient.

Deep Future

 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/194986/deep-future

Deep Future (2016)

Designer: R. Winder

Card-driven board game. Difficult.  I played several games solo, lost most of them.

The White Box (Game Design)

 https://atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG2903

Game design in a box.

This looks interesting.  And I need all the help I can get.

The Lost Expedition

 https://ospreypublishing.com/the-lost-expedition

Played the game for the first time, solo. Brutal.

Game 1 = Lost, all dead on Expedition Track 4

Game 2 = Won with one adventurer at one health

Game 3 = Lost, all dead on Expedition Track 5

Horrified

 https://www.ravensburger.us/products/games/strategy-games/horrified-universal-monsters-60001836/index.html

Horrified

I played a two person game against Dracula and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

It was fun, and we won.

I appreciated the sort of Grade B movie, campy humor aspect of the game.

Simple mechanics, easy to learn, but some interesting choices to be made.

Looking forward to playing again.

Deadwood 1876

It gets good reviews, but I am having doubts that I will ever play this social deduction game.

Merry Men

Testing continues on the bootlegging game.

Game design in progress

Game design in progress

Castle Ravenloft

Castle Ravenloft board game. Still in the original shrink.

Got a good review from Tom Vasel on the Dice Tower.

50/50 on playing it or selling it.

Roll Player

https://www.dicetower.com/game/169426/roll-player

Roll Player, board/card game reviewed by Tom Vasel.  Seal of Excellence.  He liked it because it is a thinky, puzzley game with lots of interesting choices.  After playing it solitaire a half dozen times, I am less positive than he is.  It is fiddle, gamey, and lucky.  The pasted on backstory mechanic does not work for me.  The very different rules for armor vs. weapons also do not work for me.  The alignment limitations on using skills are egregious., especially in light of the very different rules on skills vs. traits.  Going to need a lot of tweaking with house rules for me to continue to play this.

Wargames Atlantic

https://wargamesatlantic.com/

Lots of hard plastic 28mm miniatures.

Gay Guys board game

Gay Guys board game.

The tentative title was Merry Men, but it turns out that Merry Men is already taken.

Gay (adjective) = happy, cheerful, etc.

Gay Guys is a cooperative board game about a band of cheerful persons who rob from the rich, give to the poor, and oppose a tyrannical, corrupt, and morally bankrupt government.

Gay Guys is set in a fictitious England circa 1192 AD.

Copyright 2020 Ben Smith.  All Rights Reserved.

Gute Freunde board game

Gute Freunde AKA Good Friends

This is an extremely simple game.

I think it is intended to be a child's first game where they learn some basic game mechanics.

There are no decisions to be made, it is all luck.

Old Joe Clark

Old Joe Clark is one of my favorite folk songs.

I do not always follow the traditional lyrics.

Old Joe Clark he had a house
40 stories high
And every story in that house
Was filled with chicken pie.

Fare thee well Old Joe Clark
Fare thee well I say
Fare thee well Old Joe Clark
For I'm a going away.

Old Joe Clark he had a mule
His name was Morgan Brown
He hitched him up to his wagon
And drove him into town.

Fare thee well Old Joe Clark
Fare thee well I say
Fare thee well Old Joe Clark
For I'm a going away.

I went down to Old Joe's house
He invited me to supper
I stubbed my toe on the table leg
And stuck my nose in the butter.

Fare thee well Old Joe Clark
Fare thee well I say
Fare thee well Old Joe Clark
For I'm a going away.

Orleans Stories board game

https://www.dicetower.com/game-video/orle%CC%81ans-stories-review-tom-vasel

Not recommended. 3/10.

He points out some serious flaws.

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