The current trend toward hybrid roleplaying miniatures game has been a lot of fun. I’ve played fun games that feature pirates, African safaris, Victorian street gangs, and of course, my own horror games tend in that direction.
Bump In The Night is a free RPG that I think could easily be modified for use as a role playing oriented miniatures game. At the very least, it has some good ideas.
Hidden Empires has got a pretty unique theme:
Hidden Empires II is a game for 2 to 6 players where each player assumes the role of an ant colony. You will guide your colony as it attempts to grow and thrive in a hostile environment while competing for resources with neighboring colonies. Your colony will employ unique survival strategies based on those of real world ant species. To win the game, you must give your species the best chance of survival by producing more reproductive ants than your opponents.
Jeremy Claridge offers “Bugged” a free board game of galactic conquest. The author writes:
Welcome to Bugged! The hex based wargame of the extraterrestrial kind.
Bugged! Will let you engage in the conflict for territory that has plagued humankind ever since it took to the stars.
In Bugged! You can play one of the four main races that inhabit the galaxy in an attempt to wipe out any opposition. You could be anything from the mutant bugs with their limited intelligence but powerful weapons to the more resourceful but heavily outnumbered human marines.
So lets get you started on the road to Galactic Conquest…………………………….
To play Bugged! You will need some figures to represent your units, a hex marked playing surface and a dozen or so six sided dice.
The Megaman Battle Network Board Game is a free print-and-play game based on the storied MegaMan franchise.
Occult World War II is a two player Warpspawn Card game. You need to make your own cards to play.