"Podracing revisited" Topic

A generous and thoughtful present has allowed me to revisit my desire to play Podracing games. My initial ideas are covered in this post and I hope to present some test races soon.

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Cheers
Chris

If you are familiar with the racing boardgame, Formula De, I have a set of rules I wrote years ago and have run it successfully at cons. The Boonta Eve Classic. The rules do require a set of Formula De "Gear" dice

Just PM me and I'll be happy to e-mail the PDFs to you

I've also added in some random elements during the game like a roaming Jawa Sand Sandcrawler that acts as a mobile obstacle. Also an area of the map that each turn you enter, Sand People take a pop shot at you to possibly cause you a damage point.

Bryan. Thanks, but I sold my copy a year or so ago. I'm tempted to try modifying Snow Tails though, as there is a certain similarity between huskies and podracing! Hah.

For additional consideration:
Spin-Out – a set of SW pod racing rules
runtus.org/page11.htm

And a game from Faultline
PDF link

Thanks for those links. I was aware of Spin Out, but not the other one. Here's hoping my variant for Machinas will add something of interest to players of that game.

Dont forget Future Race. It was developed for such things though other genres are applicable. :-)

Grimm

I also have been worked on pod racing rules based loosely on the X wing game and I have all the available pod racers. I currently have rules for:

19 unique Pod racers
20 different modification cards
12 different skill upgrades
8 "dirty tricks" upgrades
33 card damage/critical deck

I have playtested 4 games so far and it is fairly easy to control multiple racers. It is about as complicated as X Wing.

Thanks for your comments. I have the 4 paired sets and one of the versions of the 'build your own' is on the way. I know there were three colour schemes available, so eventually I'd like to get them all for the variation they'd offer.

I also need the two with the launchers and the ones that come with the sets of figures.

But in any case, plenty to race with!

I wrote Spin Out years ago for a bit of fun at a display the club was doing. We still trot it out at the odd club meeting. You will certainly find out who your friends are… Enjoy.