All Kinds of Fun!
I have all the boxscores from the 1985 season. I’m doing it as part of a quest to get more information than currently available online about the USFL’s final season. The various sources come from local newspapers. I will create a section of Sycarion that is just for the completed boxscores.
Game 1 in Tampa Bay [...]
I know, I know. Everything lately has been RPG stuff. Dice is in my blood, I guess. So now, back to a project I’ve been working on for the better part of 2007, the Pro Football Action project.
The software that I was using to create entire seasons had one small flaw that prevented me from [...]
Avalon Hill produced statistics based versions of the major sports. Baseball was the most enjoyable, especially because the rules for making your own players were included. The big, index-card-sized FAC cards that determined what happened were chock full of encoded information for any situation.
And then there was the dreaded, “Z”.
Some of the same things carried [...]
Thinking about a board game based on this machine. Just jotting down a few ideas:
Move proceeds around a board as player assemble pieces to construct their machine. The first to make it to the patent office with a working analytical engine wins. Players first make a difference engine and either patent it or build one [...]
I have been fascinated lately with variations on chess. The one played by many in Europe, including current Grandmasters, is Janus Chess. The board has two extra spaces (10 x 8 board) and each side has a Janus, a combination of a knight and bishop.
Having a combination piece means that a player can be [...]
In finalizing Takteek, mrtool and I had an idea to use dice to determine the outcome. Basically, there would be one die for each rank. If a 3 attacks a 2, 3 six-sided would be rolled by the attacker and 2 six-sided dice would be rolled by the defender.
The idea is a sound one that [...]
My friend, mrtool, has made marked pieces for Takteek. The pieces are black and silver and about 1″ round discs. Each is stamped with the appropriate rank, including demoted pieces. The Flag and Archers are specially marked to make them distinct.
Last Friday, we played on a square board with hexagons instead of squares. We did [...]
Each side has 26 pieces. Two 5 rank pieces, Four 4 rank pieces, Eight 3 rank pieces, Eight 2 rank pieces and Four 1 rank pieces(archers). Upon being attacked by a superior force, a piece is demoted one rank. If a piece has already been demoted and is attacked by a superior piece, it is [...]
Greed variation of Monopoly
Start the game with only $500 instead of $1250. To purchase properties, you can borrow money with interest to be paid back over a number of turns. The more turns to pay back, the higher the interest. How much you can borrow is determined by a scale. The first loan is $500. [...]
Latrunculi or Roman Chess is mentioned in many ancient documents, but the rules are speculative at best. These rules are based on suggestions made by Dr. Wladyslaw J Kowalski, an engineering professor at Penn State University.
The folks from Board Games Studies take issue with Dr. Kowalski’s suggestions. Their interpretation of the game is here. I [...]
Sycarion Diversions is a sister site of pinakidion.*. pinakidion.* deals more with religious and writing topics. This site houses information on games. Specifically, this has information on card games, board games, and role-playing games. Card games and board games are a collaborative effort with my friend Jeff. Jeff has created and briefly marketed one board game and has idea for lots of others. Role-Playing Games are my bailiwick. I've been playing since I was 10 starting with the Mentzer Basic D&D box. I stopped playing in college, but recently renewed my love for RPGs. In 2005, I discovered the Action! System from Goldrush Games. Since then, I have also found Microlite20 and OpenD6. It's a good time to game.
For what it is worth, feel free to use anything that you see on the site. It is not copyrighted or even placed under a Creative Commons License. Part of the reason for this is that rules for games cannot really be copyrighted. However, the main reason is that the value of this site is the community I am a part of. Restrictions on ideas and games can delay innovation, even simple restrictions can be an impediment. Sure, I'd like a link and to be given credit, but that's up to the person.
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