A Board Game for 5ish players - you didn't look at the box to closely, but it was on sale, and you think you can probably beat your sister at it if you fudge the dice a bit.

Your family recently started playing board games together, you see. At first, it was an attempt to bond, but it quickly got out of control. No one can ever agree on what to play, fights break out over what the instructions mean, and someone even accused the dog of being a spy. (The dog had a blue card, but all he understood was that people were yelling.)

So this game, Family Board Game Night: The Board Game, is yet another weapon in your arsenal to claw your way to the top of the happiness leaderboard, leaving your family crying in the dust in the living room.

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So we did it, we made a board game. There are 25 whole games-within-a-game (even before recursion), each with its own completely original, never-seen-before mechanics, and over 120 Action, Chaos, Trait, and Schedule Conflict cards. There are rules, created with the rule-skimming rapid-fire board game player you are playing as in mind.

In addition to the printouts, you need about 5 people, as many standard 6-sided dice as you can find, some pencils, and some tokens to keep track of your scores. Buttons work. Coins work too, and might just come in handy some day. If you have them, those mini post-it strips will make your life easier too.

We think a full game might take 1 to 2 hours to play, but we haven't gotten to test out some of the new, faster rules yet, so no guarantees either way.

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Most game-breaking errata, balance issues, and things I forgot:

- Adults start the game with half their income. (eg. An adult gets $30 a week - start with $15.) Kids start with no money.
- "Event cards" were the old name for "Action" and "Chaos" Cards but a few instances of the old name still exist. For a Heated Game, everyone draws an Action Card and plays an Action Card (doesn't have to be the same one), and the whole table plays a Chaos Card.
- For a 4-person game, remove all the games that require 5 or more players from the deck before starting. Also, take 1 permanent schedule conflict and 2 schedule conflicts per week instead of 2 and 3. (Also, do this for bigger games if it seems you aren't getting enough people each day to play games. Our numbers aren't necessarily fully tested and balanced.)
- You start out with the four Basic games already, but draw additional games until you have five for the first week (to last you to shopping on Saturday).
- Easy Going might say "no more than 1 morale a week" if you downloaded this right away, but should say "no more than 2 morale a day".
- If a game has a stat name in the corner (eg. TAC, WM, CRE), add that number to your rolls even if it doesn't explicitly state to do so. If it lists two and doesn't specify how to choose, it's player's choice which to use.

(We have more ideas on the way, but I wanted to keep that to fixes equivalent to the kinds of bugs I'd be allowed to fix in a video game.)

If you are playing and find yourself making changes like this, and find house rules that work better for you, let me know! They might become real rules!

Oh, and we've found the easiest way to pick which pre-generated stat block to use is, if you have one, to use a d% (two ten-sided dice - one for each digit from 0 to 99), because there are exactly 99 of them.

Edit: With literally hours left to go in scoring, I've finished a port to browser. Sorry it took so long, but ::handwave:: holidays and family.

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Oh, if anyone in Seattle wants to play it on a real board, we can arrange that.

I made this! Also,
Devin Helmgren: Co-designer -Or- Lead Recursion Designer.