Hacks and Remixes

Toy Gaming is Criminally Underrated

11 toy game rulesets to play with during the holidays

I dislike X-Mas, and I refuse to make lists of gift ideas. However, this time of year is a good opportunity to experiment with toy gaming. To facilitate this, I made a list of toy gaming options. You don’t need new games. Just play new games with the toys you own or have access to. Even if a ruleset isn’t free, it adds value to whatever toys you have on hand.

STOP BUYING SHIT YOU DON’T NEED, YOU CONSUMERIST FUCKS!

BrikWars

If you have at least a reasonable amount of Lego, this may be your jam. BrikWars is The Lego Movie meets first edition 40K. The setting is a synthesis of ultraviolent slapstick and nonsensical geopolitics. Combat is moderately crunchy, but players can and often do tear out whatever rules don’t work for them. The campaign systems are in-universe excuses to wage terrible and hilarious war. Even if you never play it, you should read BrikWars.

Also, DO NOT BUY A KID KNOCK-OFF LEGO OR DUPLO! Clone bricks don’t stick together right! More is not better! Fewer bricks that actually fit is superior!