Centre Rock is a free download and build board game from Rocket Ship games. It can be played with the included counters, but more interesting to me are the photos of the game being played with miniatures.
Board Games
The Battle of Midway Minigame
Lou Coatney offers a print-and-play minigame of the Battle of Midway.
Miskatonic Madness Board Game
Miskatonic Madness is a free downloadable board game from Richard Launius, the creator of the original legendary Arkham Horror board game. This is a two player game and is very well done.
Here’s what Richard Launius says about the game:
this is an update of a very simple game I designed years ago and gave out a conventions to people who play-tested Arkham Horror and my more robust game designs. It is meant to be simple and in no way is comparable to Arkham Horror or Trail of the Brotherhood, but in it’s own right is fun and there is a strategy to playing the game. Lastly like Lovecraft stories, the magic of this game is in the imaginations of the viewers. With imagination it is a fun little game
Marathon Fantasy Race Game
Marathon is a fantasy race game where
Players take the roles of Gods, secretly influencing six Heroes as they strive to complete the mythical Marathon race. You must be subtle as you influence your Heroes: once a God’s favorite Heroes are known the other Gods will work to thwart them! At the end of the race, the God whose favorites have moved the furthest wins the game!
Good Little Ninjas Card Game
Good Little Ninjas is a free print-and-play card drafting game. The author writes:
In Good Little Ninjas, players become inhabitants of medieval Japan. Each of the game’s seven rounds represent one day in the life of a bustling village, full of characters and opportunity.
Every day you have the chance to employ Farmers, Carpenters, Merchants and Peasants to harvest rice and construct buildings. The more daring might send Ninjas to raid the Palace Treasury, or recruit Samurai to prevent the predicted raids. You might even persuade one of the more powerful inhabitants to help you: the Daiymo, the Shogun, or even the Emperor himself!
Ultimately, the player who best uses their cunning to gain the most coins wins the game.