In the first Nice Games Jam in a few months (and we made it a long one!), your nice hosts explore the history of bicycles to develop a racing board game.

• Our last Nice Games Club episode:Eddies
• Two Wheels Good - Jody Rosen
• Safety Bicycle - Wikipedia

Map book

4-sided dice

Meeple to represent racers

• Choose a map to race on in the map book (only one made right now)
• Choose a starting point and an ending point on the map
• Draw a conditions card from the conditions deck (not made yet! We just used rain, where you have to make a Stability check each time you make a turn)

• Same area through time
• You choose your rider and bike (each with different stats) based on how the map looks
• You spend your resources to get new bikes or upgrade a bike
• We started with penny farthings (bad stats), you can buy better ones later.
• At the start of the race you draw a “condition”, affects the course to make more stability checks
• You also randomly get a start and end place (we just set it as corner to corner for testing)
• Types of stats:
  • Speed: how far you can go
  • Weight: how heavy your bike is, how hard uphill is and how fast downhill is
  • Capacity: how much you can hold on your bike
  • Stability: how easy it is to get past stability checks
  • Durability: how much failing a stability check affects you
    

Time is money, friend! Okay, not always. Sometimes time is a puzzle involving many interlocking responsibilities. That’s Beth’s situation, and she asks Mark and Stephen for advice on time management in the second half of this roundtable episode. During the first half, Stephen shares some BIG NEWS that will soon place some additional responsibilities on his shoulders. Beth and Mark offer suggestions.

• Narrative Nuance
• Verdant Skies

A previous episode relating to Stephen's big news!