Brainstorming - PnP

Themes:

• Fantasy
• Strategy
• Mythology
• Could be mixed or specific
• Choose your own adventure?

Interesting games:

• Tetra Master
• Triple Triad
• Coin Breaker
• Quelf
• Dungeon Dice Monsters
• Dungeons and Dragons
• Maze
• Labyrinthus
• RoboDerby
• Landshift
• Risk

Things I want for my game:

• Modular board / Paths
• I really like the idea of being able to somehow modify the playing field. 
• Maze had a playing field that would shift due to PLAYER action.
• Labyrinthus has a field that can be obstructed by placing walls in specific areas
• Dungeon dice monsters makes it so that you have to make your own path to get to the other player

• Dice!
• If anything, certainly having different types of dice
• RoboDerby/Rally has dice that issue different commands
• Move right 3 spaces
• Move back 2 spaces
• U-Turn
• Hack
• Dungeon Dice Monsters actually has players create paths with unfolding dice...That's just a really attractive concept for me (but would of course, mean more unfolding dice pieces. Must look more into the feasibility of that)

commands

paths with a point indicating the summon point

• Combat
• Some of the games I played had a fun combat element-- however, this was pushed back in favor of making paths.
• Force players to battle instead of running all over the board
• Cards? 
• Not too many different cards
• Perhaps just instructional cards
• Could be tiles instead of cards...used for combat?
• Tetra Master style combat using arrows and stats

Current goals:

• Have some kind of modular board-- possibly modified via tiles
• must not make pieces too small and difficult to cut out
• Force players to battle
• Goal could be to make a path to reach another player while picking up useful modifiers along the way
• Story
• Commanding different forces?
• Summoners?
• Essentially roleplaying as mythical commanders?
• i.e. Zeus vs. Odin
• Summoning respective mythical figures to conquer the other
• Trickster god battle?
• Loki vs. Kuthk vs. Susanoo vs. Hermes/Mercury
• each could command a different entity...making it a possible 8 different designs (4 gods, 4 entities with color swaps?)

MUST HAVE:

• Limited Gametime
• About 30 minutes
• At least 2 to 4 player game
• Sometimes, playing with more than just another person can turn a simple game into a crazy shouting match