Seeking game rules assistance - anyone happy to read through?

Thanks for the comments!

Yes, we do sports games for one reason. The market never grows tired of sport. Events get bigger, fans remain passionate and merchandise sells.

This is our 4th year and these games will bring our range to over 15 (including limited editions etc)

The equation to keep games simple, fast and able to be renewed with each reprint, helps us move with the market....or that's the plan.

On our first game, I had to find a graphic artist and website designer. I decided to take a year course and qualify as a graphic designer to cover art myself. Then learning how to use a website builder combined the two jobs. Dealing with the factory direct after living in China for 9 years has also cut out the need for a middle man.

I hope I can keep on 'exploding' for years to come. BTW - I do plan to make non sports games :)

Thanks again

Thankyou Daniel for your input. Excellent advice and observations.

Reformatting the Cycling in the order you've suggested is a good tip and I agree it will read better and lead the new player through the game introduction in a logical progression.

SOLO mode can be just the time trial which gives you a starting position or a personal best race time. You can then take that position into the TOUR EVENT.

Mulitplayer format will still see all riders do a time trial and start in there assigned time position. You may be in 5th, I may be in 9th.

The BACK MARKERS are the 'ghost riders' in all other positions. When players are in sequenced positions (you 5th, me 6th) then I will be the BACK MARKER and have the extra threat of passing you.

A few games I have played through see these positions flip back and forth for some tense laps. I will be including some 'strategy' counters like a 'Double Move' to allow for an extra attack on a single turn, and 'Fan on the Track' that is an interrupt directly on rider to push them back one position. These will then be important on when to use them throughout the race and which rider to use them on.

I may have to put the counters and rules for their use onto the website as a PDF mini expansion. I've done this for a couple of other games as the A5 rules sheet size only holds so much info!

Peloton 1-6 is clearer too :)

The mentioning of DOWNS in Football. This can be cleared up a bit. 4 downs per attacking phase. Any reset, allows for 4 more. Any attack that does not result in scoring points, either a TD or FG, is counted as 1 down. After 4 downs, the opposing team takes possession and attacks.

I'll rethink how better to improve that.

The EndZone die has 4/6 immediate TD chance with a 1/6 chance a reroll for the TMO will occur.
The last 1/6 Out of Bounds forces another down, which is similar to your suggestion of a Goal Line Stop.

All super ideas and respect to you Daniel for taking your time to not only read through the rules, but to provide some great insight! Thank you kindly.

Someone (pretty sure Gregg @Jewell Games) mentioned audible plays in Gridiron.

Some of my other games have faces on some dice that allow two options such as Passing, or, Kicking a field goal. I already have that on the QB die in this game, but I think I can fit in the audible play option too.

One die face for the QB reads SET PLAY +1. He will have a reroll and see which position (WR,TE,RB or QB himself) the play will go to, with the bonus of +1 on the play value.

Adding a tiny graphic (like a mini speaker) will now allow for the QB to play as above or nominate which position he chooses to pass to in lieu of the +1 bonus.

A small change but simple choice in a dice game adds a deeper feeling of involvement, especially if he has called the play and the dice rolls are kind :)