Matt's Mods

Welcome!  Please feel free to browse (with your cat, even) my collection of board-game mods.  Primarily, I fix broken rules.  Thus, typically, that is filling in cases the rules don't cover, clarifying contradictions, and balancing imbalances.  Occasionally, this then leads to variations, options, and full-on expansions.  Hence: "Mods."  Check out (or steal) whatever you want and return for more.

Both this itch.io page and BoardGameGeek (often in the game comments) are the official landing sites of all my board-game mods.

Released Downloads

📣 You'll find the download buttons near the bottom of this page.

Formula Dé (1997)

WIP

Sushi-Jalapeño War (SJW) (1994)

• Wasabi-Jalapeño War expansion and rules (v2024OCT)
• Wasabi-Jalapeño War quick reference "card" (v2024OCT)
• Wasabi-Jalapeño War player boxes (v2024OCT) can use with SJW too
• Better-fixed SJW rules (v2024OCT)
• Better-fixed SJW quick reference "card" (v2024OCT)
• Minimally-fixed SJW rules (v2024OCT)
• Minimally-fixed SJW quick reference "card" (v2024OCT)

One-liner Mods

The aMAZEing Labyrinth (1995)

1. To avoid stalemates, I recommend changing the win condition to one of:
   1. Get to any corner to exit the labyrinth and win;
   2. Return to within 2 tiles of starting corner (starting corner tile plus 2 tiles out) to win; or
   3. Don't require an exit move -- call the game at the end of the round in which a player collects their last treasure.

Carcassone (2000)

Stolen from an Amazon comment (as I recall):

1. To add a bit of skill, play with a hand of three tiles.

Die Siedler von Catan (2003)

1. The Longest Road and the Most Soldiers cards are worth 1 VP each instead of 2 VP each.  (Not a change I would set in stone.  Just an opinion.)

In-editing List

• Castle Risk (1990)
• Elfenland (1998)
• HeroQuest ([1989] 1990, US rules)
• Kingmaker ([1974] 1988, 2^nd ed.)
• RoboRally ([1994] 2005-2023, various mods for various editions)
• Three-player Mahjong

TODO List

none at the moment (note the big in-editing list -- which could take a while on a spare-time basis to prep for print [maybe I should release sloppier docs and clean them up later... will think about it])

My Unpublished Original Board Games

• Bushishima
  (awesome but thick rules; thinner family rules included)
• Monster Hunters
  (pretty sweet; family game)
• Rally Stages: 1962 British Rally Championship
  (okay-ish, no more room for improvement with base mechanic, not sure if ever worth publishing)

My Video Games

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