Whats a good idea for a world history board game?
I have played many historically-based board games, and based on the ones I have played I think I can come up with a few basic ideas for you. Some of the games I like to play involve the game itself actually progressing through world history. Each player is ruler of an ancient people. The players must perform certain tasks to advance their people through historical epochs to the present day, or close to it. The winner is the player who is most successful at this. Other games involve time travel. Each player is a time traveler in a time line that has gone awry. The players must perform certain tasks to set the time line straight. Alternatively, the time line starts out accurately, but the time travelers must change the time line to open a portal to their futuristic civilization. Each time traveler is trying to get back to a different reality, however, so they are working against each other in a lot of cases. One of my favorite games involves a number of historical characters with differe
