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• Along similar lines, Wizards of the Coast has set up a Dungeons & Dragons remote page with free material that you can download, primarily adventures for those playing the game and coloring pages for youngsters who love fantasy material.
• Designer Mitsuo Yamamoto of Logy Games has designed dozens of games that use ceramic or wood bits — that is, items similar to what you might find around your house — and in response to the current situation, he's been designing lots of games that use precisely those components you'll find around the house. You can find all of his home made games here. Says Yamamoto, "I have already created twelve games and will finally have a total twenty games at least. All ideas are free to make games by yourselves. I am sure and hope this suggestion will be helpful for all people who are protecting to coronavirus all over the world."
• Do you want another roll-and-write game to play at home or via cameras with others?
If so, then designers Mike Mullins, Ben Pinchback, and Matt Riddle are happy to present Tiny Farms to you, this being a game for 1-4 players available in a print-and-play format here on BGG courtesy of publishers Dice Hate Me Studio and Motor City Gameworks. Here's an overview of how to play:
Each round, roll dice equal to the number of players, plus one. Players then take turn drafting a die, moving either the red or blue farmer meeple that number of sections, and placing the two animals from that section onto their farm that matches the color of the farmer. The last die remaining after all players have taken one is used to rotate the wheel.
Players also start with some milk tokens that can modify the values of dice by ±1.
The game ends after ten rounds (with your farms hopefully now being full), and players score points. Each animal has a different scoring conditions, such as sets of adjacent animals of the same kind or different kinds, or the most animals of a kind between all players. You also get points for unused milk tokens, and lose points for any size difference between your two farms.
You can purchase just the expansion — or the base game, the extension, and the expansion — and for each copy of the new Covid-19 expansion backed, Viard has promised to donate €10 from his personal funds (up to €15,000 total) to Institut Pasteur and Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Update, April 22, 2020: In Germany, Oktoberfest — which was scheduled to run Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 — has been cancelled. Here's an excerpt from an NPR article about the closure:
Munich's mayor, Dieter Reiter, described the cancellation as a "bitter pill" for the city but said that officials had no other choice. "You can't host a folk festival in a time like this," he said.
That said, these announcements coincide with Germany relaxing some of its stay-at-home restrictions. Again, from the NPR article:
"The increase of infected people is slowing down, and our medical services are not overrun by people requiring hospitalization," German MP Jürgen Hardt told NPR last week.
Germany reported 1,775 news coronavirus cases on Monday, which was the lowest number of new infections since mid-March.