Category Archives: Board Games and Game Accessories

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Sovereign: Open Source Board Game logo
Sovereign: Open Source Board Game $42.99

Available for sale at TheGameCrafter.com

Included are all the rules, victory cards, units for three players and charts to play Sovereign.

NOT included are any maps.

Add units for 3 more players (for a total of 6) by ordering: Sovereign (Players 4-6) [www.thegamecrafter.com]

Sovereign is released under a Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
— CC BY-SA 3.0
[creativecommons.org] license and is created by
Ruben Hopmans of http://opensourceboardgame.org/ [opensourceboardgame.org]

Add a fourth, fifth and sixth player with: Sovereign (Players 4-6) [www.thegamecrafter.com]

Flip the Table logo
Flip the Table™ $9.99

Available for sale at TheGameCrafter.com

A card-based version of the classic game Shut the Box with a wooden table theme.

Included are rules for many different variations of play and rules for different methods of scoring.

Will you be able to flip over all the face-up cards and 'flip the table'?

The backs of the cards are all the same to encourage new variants with revealing cards.

Final Decrees logo
Final Decrees $30.99

Available for sale at TheGameCrafter.com

Final Decrees is a board game based on a monstrous incompetent bureaucracy. Players play the upper echelon of the various departments. The player with the least blame at the end of the game wins. The game is for 4-5 players and takes 60 to 90 minutes to play.

Note that this game does not come with scorepads. Scorepads are available at: Final Decrees (Decree Scorepads) [www.thegamecrafter.com] or you can download the score sheets to print of to use.

Blame Counters not included, use pennies or dice that you have on hand. You can order Blame Counters for use in this game at: Final Decrees (Blame Counters) [www.thegamecrafter.com] .

Based of Final Decrees by Carl de Visser and available at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~devisser/ [homepages.ihug.co.nz] The original work is available under a Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 New Zealand
— CC BY 3.0 NZ
[creativecommons.org] License.

Elevation of Privilege logo
Elevation of Privilege $34.99

Available for sale at TheGameCrafter.com

Elevation of Privilege (EoP) is the easy way to get started threat modeling, which is a core component of the design phase in the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).

The EoP card game helps clarify the details of threat modeling and examines possible threats to software and computer systems.

The EoP game focuses on the following threats:

  Spoofing
  Tampering
  Repudiation
  Information Disclosure
  Denial of Service
  Elevation of Privilege

EoP uses a simple point system that allows you to challenge other developers and become your opponent's biggest threat.

Developed by Microsoft and Published under a
CC BY 3.0 Deed | Attribution 3.0 Unported
| Creative Commons
License.

No scorepad is included, buy a score available at Elevation of Privilege Scorepad or downloading the scoring sheet is recommended.

Piecepack: Poker Suits logo
Piecepack: Poker Suits $43.99

Available for sale at TheGameCrafter.com

The piecepack is a set of boardgame parts that can be used to design and play a wide variety of games. Anyone may design and publish a piecepack rule set.

What differentiates this piecepack from others is that this piecepack has four suites that are the SAME as a regular Poker deck:
Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Spades.

Each suit has:
1 colored Pawn
6 mats (null, ace, 2, 3, 4, 5)
6 coins (with null, ace, 2, 3, 4, 5)
1 die (with null, ace, 2, 3, 4, 5 for faces)

You can get a discount on three complete sets by buying Piecepack Triple: Poker Suits [www.thegamecrafter.com].

The following webpages lists the rule sets for use with this game.

Piecepack Games [www.piecepack.org]
Piecepack games that have their own page here at BGG | BoardGameGeek [boardgamegeek.com]
Games that can be played with (or have been adapted to) the piecepack system | BoardGameGeek [boardgamegeek.com]