Play as your Sonic the Hedgehog OC with these fan made tabletop games

in the days after that Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Posted, I’ve been trying to find the best Sonic inspired board game There. Folks, I found them. Surprisingly, there is no official Sonic the Hedgehog tabletop RPG yet. Thankfully, fans are here to save the day. After some digging, I found two fan-made Sonic games for two different types of players. rings and running shoes and Sonic Tag Team Heroes They sit at opposite ends of the board game spectrum, but both can fill that ring hole in your heart – and importantly, they’re both free.

For the more tactically minded fans of the series, Sonic Tag Team Heroes It is a more traditional board game, crunchy, Dungeons and Dragons– Inspired grid-based combat played out through heroic boss fights. Players can choose from one of four character types, which determine their attribute set: Speed, Flight, Strength, and Technology – each type follows the path of the main Sonic protagonist. The game itself uses a dice pool of d6 and d10, and a series of corresponding skills. These include the melee, movement, stealth, deception, and more you’d expect from most attribute-based systems; but there are some special abilities like Spin, which lets your character roll into a ball to get through tight spaces or attack enemies. The details of the game mechanics aren’t overly complex, but are certainly suitable for more experienced players who want to capture the urge to fight.

If you want to play in the world of Sonic but want to focus more on the story than the combat, rings and running shoes is a game based on the apocalypse, set in Anthropomorphic hedgehog and echidna. Like all PbtA games (System designed by Meguey and Vincent Baker) rings and running shoes Designed to deliver brief, two-hour long sessions while packing all the emotional punch of your favorite Sonic comics, games, and movies. Instead of a list of skills to choose from and assign points, PbtA games operate from a playbook, a collection of moves and skills centered around a specific archetype. The game prioritizes two things: teamwork and doing cool stuff. One of the basic moves in the game is called butt kicking, need I say more?

Most importantly, I appreciate how rings and running shoes Make it a priority to teach new players what board games are and how to play them together to tell the best stories. While the text is a bit dense, mostly just black text on a white background with the occasional original character art sprinkled throughout, the accessibility of the language isn’t as Sonic Tag Team Heroes.

Whether you want to get involved in the tactical combat of Sonic Battle or just want to be a cool hedgehog saving the world from Dr. Eggman, the fan community surrounding the series has you covered. You can get both games absolutely free at sonicth.com and Ringsandrunningshoes.itch.io. While the design of these games may differ from professional games Studio-produced tabletop gamesthey have enough heart and enough foundation to make you go fast.