Drop In Drag Race

A game for 1 to 12 players

Components:
1 deck of 12 vehicle cards
1 play deck of mod and event cards
12 six sided dice.

Played in short rounds, each a quarter mile on an infinite drag strip.

Each player takes a random vehicle card on their first round. Vehicles have an acceleration and a speed stat, different for each one.

Each player places mod cards they wish to play. Some mod cards are permanent mods to the vehicle and remain in play, while others are single use then discarded. Mod cards may be held until needed.(eg a nitro is a single use card, giving a boost in acceleration and speed for one round, but extractors are a permanent mod to the vehicle.) Some mod cards require the vehicle to have stats over a certain amount, so if acceleration is low, you need to improve it before playing a card requiring higher acceleration.) Other mod cards can effect events, such as event immunity, which could be played if you knew you had to play a wipe out event, to protect yourself from the disaster while other players are ruined!

Each player then rolls their dice, and their scores are calculated. This is done by multiplying their speed by acceleration as well applying any modifiers. The result is then multiplied by the dice roll.

After this, any event cards in hand MUST be played. Such things as a crash (player with card nominates the player effected), or Wipe Out (all vehicles destroyed, start from scratch), or Track Inversion (swaps scores, last player wins). When crashed or destroyed, discard vehicle and mods to start fresh.

Once all events and mods are taken into account, the highest score wins the race. The players then draw a card from the deck for each player they defeated (unless they crashed or their vehicle was otherwise destroyed). So, if you have four players, the winner takes three cards, second place getter takes two cards, etc. If playing solo, you draw 1 card for every twenty five points in your score for the round, with the goal of boosting your score and your vehicle stats.

Anybody leaving the game discards their vehicle, their hand and all their mod cards in play.

Anybody joining the game collects a vehicle from the newly shuffled vehicle deck, and commences from the start.

Events can and will destroy your vehicle or mods at any time! A crash event card in solo play must be played against yourself. Try to counter events with event immunity, instant repair, airbag, mod salvage and other cards to to survive!

The game can end at any time, winner decided either as the person who owns the highest total acceleration and speed from vehicle and permanent mods, or the vehicle with the most wins. The winning condition should be chosen at start of play.

The object of the game is to score points by making words and logging time. The game is scored and tracked on a leader board. The goal is to have the most points at the end of the night.

Components: *Several sets of Scrabble tiles *score sheets for each player *master tracking sheet *clock *game board

The game board is a traditional clock face. At each number are blank spaces equal to the clock position. (1 blank at 1, 2 blanks at 2, etc.)

When a player joins the game, he logs his entry time on his individual score sheet. He then spells out his name (as much or as little of it as he cares to use) in letter tiles and contributes them to the pot. He places his name on the master tracking sheet next to the current game board. A player may only contribute his name to the letter tile pot once per game board.

The group must work together to form single words or phrases using only the letter tiles that have been contributed to the pot. Starting at 1, players must make a word or phrase on the game board with exactly as many letters as the clock position. Numbers must be filled in order and may not be skipped. When position 12 has been filled, the board is cleared and play begins again. No letter tiles are saved between game boards.

When a word is completed, every active player scores a number of points equal to the total value of the letter tiles used. (Scrabble tiles have a number value on the letter tile.) The word is then placed on the master tracking sheet next to the current game board. If a completed word is already anywhere on the master tracking sheet next to any game board, the clock position is filled but players do not earn points for it. When a player leaves the game, he fills out his exit time and scores a number of points equal to the number of minutes spent playing. He then updates his score on the leader board.

A player may join the game, contribute his name to the letter tile pot, and then leave the game. He may rejoin at any time, and will score points for any words completed while active as well as the time spent at the game.

Eternal Quest

Number of players: varying Components required: A Hex grid for all players, a sheet to track a party’s stats per player. 1D12 to explore the map, 5D6 per player, 20 Life tokens per player.

Gameplay: Before joining the game, a player creates his party of 4 Heros, if he does not have a party from a prior game already. A Hero consists of his race and his class. Race and class give a modificator to the attributes as well as a selection of skills. Attributes are: Physical (for physical combat), Mental (for magic), Social (to influence encounters) Races are: Human, Dwarf, Half-Orc, Gnome, Halfling, Elf, Half-Elf Classes are: Adventurer, Cleric, Mage, Paladin, Soldier, Thief, Warlock Depending on class, a Hero has got access to 1 armor set (e.g. scale armor) and 1 mainhand/offhand set (e.g. sword and shield). Starting on level 1, a Hero has access to 1 skill. During his adventures he will learn more, but he will only be able to „equip“ up to 5 skills for a quest. A Hero has 5 life. For each life he may roll 1 die for all kinds of checks. Checks resolution is based on the number of successes rolled. The hexmap is generated randomly, by a roll of the D12. Possible terrains are: Plains, Forest, Desert, Hills, Mountains, Steppe, Swamp Depending on the terrain you are currently in, there is a table stating, which terrain can be found at which probability in the surrounding hexes. The whole game starts in a plains hex in a city. In a city there are always questgivers as well as skill trainers, as opposed to villages, where there is only a questgiver. It is up to the player to name and to breath life into the cities and villages.

Quests are selected randomly from a questgiver. Quests may be

• Travel to next village/city
• Kill X monsters
• Kill certain bossmonster (unlocking the „dungeon“ option for encounters)
• Explore area

It is up to the player to invent a story around the quest. At skill trainers you can buy skills. Moving into a hex, you have to resolve an encounter, such as: Nothing, roaming monsters (depending on terrain), dungeon (depending on quest), city, village. Monsters‘ reactions start at a certain level (agressive, hostile, neutral, friendly, questgiver). A certain number of successes rolled may change the reaction. Questgivers give random quests (see above).

Combat takes place on an abstact level with dicepools of the Heroes pitted versus dicepools of the monsters. At any time players may join in or drop out. If more than one players plays Eternal Quest, players have to agree, where they move to. Each party bayond the first raises the difficulty level of encounters (mostly by raising monsters‘ life points).

Players may leave at any time, too. They no longer participate until they join in again. A party of a player not playing Eternal Quest does not gain XP or gold, of course.

First off to make this challenge work we need easy setup and cleanup. There's a large supply of square tiles kept in a draw bag, plus 5 meeples and 3 connection tokens per player. To start you just grab the draw bag and a baggie of pieces and off you go. To cleanup, just quickly throw everything back in their bags.

Next we need short turns. Each turn is a simple choice of one of four options: Play a tile, play a meeple, move a meeple, or play a connection. We'll get to more details shortly.

Now we need fluid scoring and the ability to resolve the game at any time. The scoring is goal based relative to the number of tiles played, the more tiles out, the higher score you need. Of course with multiple players, you also need to stay ahead of everyone else.

The game will end either because everyone agrees to stop, or more likely, because it's triggered. A selection of tiles will say things like "one more turn for all players." Therefore, the game can end anytime, so you're always forced to try and stay ahead of the scoring curve.

Lastly, since there's a solo option we need an element of fighting against the game itself. There are several tiles that may end up forcing you to lose tiles, meeples, or connections.

Ok, let's get to some specifics. There are three types of territory: city, country, and forest, and three types of links: road, river, and railway. The tiles have varying combinations of territories and links on each side. As tiles are placed they'll have to match on all sides. Each tile indicates a good it makes and a good it needs. The goods are: food, wood, equipment, and raw material. City makes equipment and needs raw material. Country makes raw material and needs wood. Forest makes wood and needs equipment. Additionally, every type of territory might make or need food.

Meeples can be played on any tile, but only one per tile. Each meeple played scores points for every tile it is linked to that makes what is needed by the tile where the meeple is played. 1 point if linked by road or river and 2 points if by rail. Some city tiles generate pollution which, if you're not careful, can negate what an adjacent tile makes.

Connection tokens allow you to continue link lines where they're blocked. For example, serving as a bridge connecting roads on opposite sides of a river.

Finally, we need to talk about players jumping in and out. When someone leaves, she adds things up to see how she fared and everyone else keeps going. When someone joins, he immediately places as many meeples as the least played by another player. It's easily fluid because of the common play area and the constant pressure of the scoring goal, whether or not anyone else is getting in your way.

Jackpot

Jackpot can be played with one to five players; there will always be a total of five positions, regardless of how many actual players there are. Players can join in, abandon, and even change positions at will until the Jackpot hits and scoring begins.

Components

• Deck of 60 cards
• 50 poker chips in 10 sets of 5 colors:
  • Gold: VIPs
  • Red: Honeymooners
  • Blue: Professionals
  • Green: Weekenders
  • White: Locals
• 21 Star tokens
• Jackpot track with 13 spaces

All cards consist of an effect (examples below) and a poker chip icon of one of the five colors.

Objective

The first player to earn five Stars, or who has the most Stars when the game ends, is the winner.

Setup

Each position begins each round with one White and one Blue chip, with the remaining chips in the common pool. Live players are dealt five cards. All positions begin the game with one Star. The Jackpot marker begins at position 1.

Gameplay

Live players choose a card and play its effect. Many effects pose a choice (“Take two White chips from the pool OR one Blue or Green chip from another player.”) and are often balanced between gaining guests (“Take one Green chip from every other player.”) and advancing the Jackpot track (“Return one Blue chip to the pool AND advance the Jackpot by three spaces.”). Each type of guest behaves differently; Honeymooners are always gained or lost in pairs, and Weekenders are highly erratic (“All players give their Green chips to the player on their right.”). VIPs are hard to gain or lose, and Professionals often trigger special effects.

Live players then choose a second card from their hand to discard into the facedown pile in the middle. The color of the chip on the card is their secret vote to determine which type of guest will determine the winner that round. Live players end their turn by drawing two cards.

Empty positions randomly play a card off the top of the deck. When an effect card played this way affects or targets another player, live players take turns determining which position is the target of the effect. A second card is then dealt off the top of the deck into the facedown pile.

Scoring

Once the Jackpot marker reaches the 13th position, or when the game is declared to be over, the round ends. Immediately flip over all cards in the facedown pile; the poker chip color that appears the most often is the only one that scores that round. Whichever player has the most chips of that color earns a Star. If there is a tie, use the color that appears second most.

Additionally, whichever position has the most of the color that appears the least in the facedown pile loses a Star. If this player has no Stars left to lose, or there is a tie for the color that appears the least, no penalties are incurred this round.