History TabletopGame / FormulaD

!!Formula D provides examples of:

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: At the beginning of a qualifying round or a race proper, the die is rolled to determine the outlook which either means the entire session takes place in clear weather, rain or the weather can change during the race (overcast). When the weather can change during a race, the change occurs when a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual and then there's a roll that moves the weather scale upwards toward clear weather, keep it where it is or move it downwards toward rain in order to make the transition gradual and not where it can suddenly go from sunny to raining. When it ''is'' raining, cars in a corner move further than normal, increasing the chances of losing Tire WP by skidding past. A player can make a pit stop to change to dedicated rain tires but those have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when skidding past a corner, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires, skidding even further. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather (both for the outlook at the beginning of the qualifying rounds or the race and when the weather changes during a race) but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve in the rain. Tunnels, denoted by the roadway being a darker gray than the rest of the track, like the one in the Circuit de Monaco are unaffected by rain and movement through them are treated as if driving in dry conditions.

''Formula D'' is a board game released by Asmodee that focuses on vehicular racing in a turn based format. The game uses a system of gears for movement, such as first allows moving from 1 to 2 spaces, second allows 2-4 and so forth. The game also utilizes "wear points" that a player's car can lose if they move through designated corners too fast among other situations that invoke vehicle damage. The stock game comes with two tracks on a double-sided board, the Azure Circuit and a fictional "Race City", although expansion boards exist for just about every other real Formula 1 track as well as several fictional ones. The game is already complicated enough and it only grows more with the advanced set of rules that divide a players wear points into [[SubsystemDamage several categories]], adds weather patterns and introduces characters to play as.

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: At the beginning of a qualifying round or a race proper, the die is rolled to determine the outlook which either means the entire session takes place in clear weather, rain or the weather can change during the race (overcast). When the weather can change during a race, the change occurs when a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual and then there's a roll that moves the weather scale upwards toward clear weather, keep it where it is or move it downwards toward rain in order to make the transition gradual and not where it can suddenly go from sunny to raining. When it ''is'' raining, cars in a corner move further than normal, increasing the chances of losing Tire WP by skidding past. A player can make a pit stop to change to dedicated rain tires but those have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when skidding past a corner, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires, skidding even further. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather (both for the outlook at the beginning of the qualifying rounds or the race and when the weather changes during a race) but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve in the rain. Tunnels, denoted by the roadway being a darker gray than the rest of the track, like the one in the Azure Circuit are unaffected by rain and movement through them are treated as if driving in dry conditions.

''Formula D'' is a board game released by Asmodee that focuses on vehicular racing in a turn based format. The game uses a system of gears for movement, such as first allows moving from 1 to 2 spaces, second allows 2-4 and so forth. The game also utilizes "wear points" that a player's car can lose if they move through designated corners too fast among other situations that invoke vehicle damage. The stock game comes with two tracks on a board, the Monaco Gran Prix and a fictional "Race City", although expansion boards exist for just about every other real Formula 1 track as well as several fictional ones. The game is already complicated enough and it only grows more with the advanced set of rules that divide a players wear points into [[SubsystemDamage several categories]], adds weather patterns and introduces characters to play as.

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: At the beginning of a qualifying round or a race proper, the die is rolled to determine the outlook which either means the entire session takes place in clear weather, rain or the weather can change during the race (overcast). When the weather can change during a race, the change occurs when a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual and then there's a roll that moves the weather scale upwards toward clear weather, keep it where it is or move it downwards toward rain in order to make the transition gradual and not where it can suddenly go from sunny to raining. When it ''is'' raining, cars in a corner move further than normal, increasing the chances of losing Tire WP by skidding past. A player can make a pit stop to change to dedicated rain tires but those have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when skidding past a corner, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires, skidding even further. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather (both for the outlook at the beginning of the qualifying rounds or the race and when the weather changes during a race) but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve in the rain. Tunnels, denoted by the roadway being a darker gray than the rest of the track, like the one in the Circuit de Monaco are unaffected by rain and movement through them are treated as if driving in dry conditions.

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: At the beginning of a qualifying round or a race proper, the die is rolled to determine the outlook which either means the entire session takes place in clear weather, rain or the weather can change during the race (overcast). When the weather can change during a race, the change occurs when a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual and then there's a roll that moves the weather scale upwards toward clear weather, keep it where it is or move it downwards toward rain in order to make the transition gradual and not where it can suddenly go from sunny to raining. When it ''is'' raining, cars in a corner move further than normal, increasing the chances of losing Tire WP by skidding past. A player can make a pit stop to change to dedicated rain tires but those have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when skidding past a corner, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires, skidding even further. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather (both for the outlook at the beginning of the qualifying rounds or the race and when the weather changes during a race) but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve during the rain. Tunnels, denoted by the roadway being a darker gray than the rest of the track, like the one in the Circuit de Monaco are unaffected by rain and movement through them are treated as if driving in dry conditions.

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: At the beginning of a qualifying round or a race proper, the die is rolled to determine the outlook which either means the entire session takes place in clear weather, rain or the weather can change during the race (overcast). When the weather can change during a race, the change occurs when a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual and then there's a roll that moves the weather scale upwards toward clear weather, keep it where it is or move it downwards toward rain in order to make the transition gradual and not where it can suddenly go from sunny to raining. When it ''is'' raining, cars in a corner move further than normal, increasing the chances of losing Tire WP by skidding past. A player can make a pit stop to change to dedicated rain tires but those have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when skidding past a corner, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory and optional) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires, skidding even further. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather (both for the outlook at the beginning of the qualifying rounds or the race and when the weather changes during a race) but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve during the rain. Tunnels, denoted by the roadway being a darker gray than the rest of the track, like the one in the Circuit de Monaco are unaffected by rain and movement through them are treated as if driving in dry conditions.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Encouraged, driving safe may reduce the risk of elimination but they tend not to rank as high as say, driving hard enough to lose all but your single wear-point.
* GadgeteerGenius: Dimitri Tzarof's car is more robust at the cost of his tire durability, in the event that an engine would otherwise take damage, it only takes one point of damage and the roll to determine engine damage is reduced to 1-3 on the black die (1-2 in the rain).

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: At the beginning of a qualifying round or a race proper, the die is rolled to determine the outlook which either means the entire session takes place in clear weather, rain or the weather can change during the race (overcast). When the weather can change during a race, the change occurs when a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual and then there's a roll that moves the weather scale upwards toward clear weather, keep it where it is or move it downwards toward rain in order to make the transition gradual and not where it can suddenly go from sunny to raining. When it ''is'' raining, cars in a corner skid further than normal, increasing the chances of losing tire WP. A player can make a pit stop to change to dedicated rain tires but those have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when skidding past a corner, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory and optional) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires, skidding even further. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather (both for the outlook at the beginning of the qualifying rounds or the race and when the weather changes during a race) but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve during the rain. Tunnels, denoted by the roadway being a darker gray than the rest of the track, like the one in the Circuit de Monaco are unaffected by rain and movement through them are treated as if driving in dry conditions.

''Formula D'' is a board game released by Asmodee that focuses on vehicular racing in a turn based format. The game uses a system of gears for movement, such as first allows moving from 1 to 2 spaces, second allows 2-4 and so forth. The game also utilizes "wear points" that a player's car can lose if they move through designated corners too fast. The stock game comes with two tracks on a board, the Monaco Gran Prix and a fictional "Race City", although expansion boards exist for just about every other real Formula 1 track as well as several fictional ones. The game is already complicated enough and it only grows more with the advanced set of rules that divide a players wear points into [[SubsystemDamage several categories]], adds weather patterns and introduces characters to play as.

''Formula D'' is a board game released by Asmodee that focuses on vehicular racing in a turn based format. The game uses a system of gears for movement, such as first allows moving from 1 to 2 spaces, second allows 2-4 and so forth. The game also utilizes "wear points" that a player's car can lose if they move through designated corners too fast. The stock game comes with two tracks on a board, the Monaco Gran Prix and a fictional "Race City", although expansion boards exist for just about every other real Formula 1 track as well as several fictional ones. The game is already complicated enough and it only grows more with the advance set of rules that divide a players wear points into [[SubsystemDamage several categories]], adds weather patterns and introduces characters to play as.

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Cars run just fine even if they're one wear point away from elimination (be it the generic WP in beginner rules or any of the systems in advanced rules which includes Tires, Body, Engine and Road Handling) but they are eliminated and removed from play once they do. Only the wear points for the Gearbox and Brakes can be reduced to 0 and the car will still work fine, it simply means you can't perform the actions that damage those systems like skipping gears during a downshift. Tires can also be reduced to 0 without elimination but doing so spins you out and you have to spend a turn to turn your car around, skidding past a corner after that or skidding past a corner where it puts your tire WP into the negative will eliminate you outright.

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: At the beginning of a qualifying round or a race proper, the die is rolled to determine the outlook which either means the entire session takes place in clear weather, rain or the weather can change during the race (overcast). When the weather can change during a race, the change occurs when a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual and then there's a roll that moves the weather scale upwards toward clear weather, keep it where it is or move it downwards toward rain in order to make the transition gradual and not where it can suddenly go from sunny to raining. When it ''is'' raining, cars in a corner skid further than normal, increasing the chances of losing tire WP. One can make a pit stop to change their tires to dedicated rain tires but those also have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when skidding past a corner, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory and optional) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires, skidding even further. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather (both for the outlook at the beginning of the qualifying rounds or the race and when the weather changes during a race) but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve during the rain. Tunnels, denoted by the roadway being a darker gray than the rest of the track, like the one in the Circuit de Monaco are unaffected by rain and movement through them are treated as if driving in dry conditions.

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: At the beginning of a qualifying round or a race proper, the die is rolled to determine the outlook which either means the entire session takes place in clear weather, rain or the weather can change during the race (overcast). When the weather can change during a race, the change occurs when a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual and then there's a roll that moves the weather scale upwards toward clear weather, keep it where it is or move it downwards toward rain in order to make the transition gradual and not where it can suddenly go from sunny to raining. When it ''is'' raining, cars in a corner skid further than normal, increasing the chances of losing tire WP. One can make a pit stop to change their tires to dedicated rain tires but those also have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when skidding past a corner, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory and optional) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires, skidding even further. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather (both for the outlook at the beginning of the qualifying rounds or the race and when the weather changes during a race) but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve during the rain. Tunnels like the one in the Monaco Gran Prix are unaffected by rain and are denoted by the roadway being a darker gray than the rest of the track.

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: At the beginning of a qualifying round or a race proper, the die is rolled to determine the outlook which either means the entire session takes place in clear weather, rain or the weather can change during the race (overcast). When the weather can change during a race, the change occurs when a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual and then there's a roll that moves the weather scale upwards toward clear weather or downwards toward rain in order to make the transition gradual and not where it can suddenly go from sunny to raining. When it ''is'' raining, cars in a corner skid further than normal, increasing the chances of losing tire WP. One can make a pit stop to change their tires to dedicated rain tires but those also have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when skidding past a corner, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory and optional) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather (both for the outlook at the beginning of the qualifying rounds or the race and when the weather changes during a race) but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve during the rain.

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: At the beginning of a qualifying round or a race proper, the die is rolled to determine the outlook which either means the entire session takes place in clear weather, rain or the weather can change during the race (overcast). When the weather can change during a race, the change occurs when a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual and then there's a roll that moves the weather scale upwards toward clear weather or downwards toward rain in order to make the transition gradual and not where it can suddenly go from sunny to raining. When it ''is'' raining, cars in a corner skid further than normal, increasing the chances of losing tire WP, one can make a pit stop to change their tires to dedicated rain tires but those also have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when skidding past a corner, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory and optional) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather (both for the outlook at the beginning of the qualifying rounds or the race and when the weather changes during a race) but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve during the rain.

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: At the beginning of a qualifying round or a race proper, the die is rolled to determine the outlook which either means the entire session takes place in clear weather, rain or the weather can change during the race (overcast). When the weather can change during a race, the change occurs when a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual and then there's a roll that moves the weather scale upwards toward clear weather or downwards toward rain in order to make the transition gradual and not where it can suddenly go from sunny to raining. When it ''is'' raining, cars in a corner skid further than normal, increasing the chances of losing tire WP, one can make a pit stop to change their tires to dedicated weather tires but those also have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when skidding past a corner, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory and optional) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather (both for the outlook at the beginning of the qualifying rounds or the race and when the weather changes during a race) but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve during the rain.

''Formula D'' is a board game released by Asmodee that focuses on vehicular racing in a turn based format. The game uses a system of gears for movement, such as first allows moving from 1 to 2 spaces, second allows 2-4 and so forth. The game also utilizes wear-points that a player's car can lose if they move through designated corners too fast. The stock game comes with two tracks on a board, the Monaco Gran Prix and a fictional "Race City", although expansion boards exist for just about every other real Formula 1 track as well as several fictional ones. The game is already complicated enough and it only grows more with the advance set of rules that divide a players wear-points into [[SubsystemDamage several categories]], adds weather patterns and introduces characters to play as.

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Cars can run just as fine with one wear-point (either normal or engine, body, etc.) But they are instantly eliminated once they lose that one last point.

* SubsystemDamage: The advanced rules allocates the cars damaged systems into several categories. Which is: 6 tire WP, 3 engine/body/gearbox/brake WP and 2 road handling WP. Any damage event can damage one or multiple systems and characters in the advanced street race rules have their own custom allocations. Players can also allocate wear points to their own systems up to a total of 20 which is less than what the cars and characters have by default.
* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: Weather in the advanced rules can change which is whenever a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively, the roll for engine damage also occurs like usual. This also occurs at the start of a qualifying round or race which the black die is rolled and the weather chart on the board is consulted and it can start raining which makes cars in a corner skid further than normal, increasing the chances of losing tire WP, one can make a pit stop to change their tires to dedicated weather tires but those also have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when exiting a corner too fast, especially when it isn't raining. Conversely, a driver can change to smoother soft tires which allows them to add a space to their movement (this movement is not compulsory and optional) but the penalties for skipping a corner are also doubled and they handle even ''worse'' in the rain compared to hard tires. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve during the rain.

* CarFu: Players can actively end their moves next to another car to try and damage it (and themselves), Derek Manson forces the player they collided into to roll twice, potentially damaging an opponent's body two times. Stanley Washington takes it in a different form and, once per race, can toss his radio playing bad music out his window at an adjacent opponent which ''will'' damage a random system on the opponent.

* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: Weather in the advanced rules can change which is whenever a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively (the roll for engine damage also occurs), at the start of a qualifying round or race which the black die is rolled and the weather sheet is consulted and it can start raining which makes cars in a corner skid further than normal, increasing the chances of losing tire WP, one can make a pit stop to change their tires to dedicated weather tires but those also have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when it isn't raining. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the Weather Frog ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather but he also skids one space less than usual in a curve during the rain.

* CarFu: Players can actively end their moves next to another car to try and damage it (and themselves), Derek Manson forces the player they collided into to roll twice, potentially damaging an opponent's body two times.

* SubsystemDamage: The advanced rules allocates the cars damaged systems into several categories. Which is: 6 tire WP, 3 engine/body/gearbox/brake WP and 2 road handling WP. Any damage event can damage one or multiple systems and characters in the advanced street race rules have their own custom allocations. Players can also allocate wear points to their own systems up to a limit of 20 which is less than what the cars and characters have by default.
* [[WeatherOfWar Weather of Racing]]: Weather in the advanced rules can change which is whenever a player rolls a 20 or 30 in 5th or 6th gear, respectively (the roll for engine damage also occurs), at the start of a qualifying round or race which the black die is rolled and the weather sheet is consulted and it can start raining which makes cars in a corner skid further than normal, increasing the chances of losing tire WP, one can make a pit stop to change their tires to dedicated weather tires but those also have the disadvantage of wearing out faster than normal when it isn't raining. Julien 'Frogger' Marcellin not only has the ability to re-roll the die for determining the change in weather but he skids one space less than usual in the rain.

* CarFu: Players can actively end their moves next to another car to try and damage it (and themselves), Derek Manson forces the player they collided into to roll twice.

* NitroBoost: The advance street race introduces nitrous that boosts the player by several spaces dependent on the gear number (first for a single space and so forth), a certain character can even boost this by several more spaces.
* SubsystemDamage: The advance rules allocates the cars damaged systems into several categories. Which is: 6 tire WP, 3 engine/body/gearbox/brake WP and 2 road handling WP. Every event damages a certain system or multiple systems. Players can customize their car to allocate wear-points into the system they desire and characters provide advantages to their cars as well.

''Formula D'' is a board game released by Asmodee that focuses on vehicular racing in a turn based format. The game uses a system of gears for movement, such as first allows moving from 1 to 2 spaces, second allows 2-4 and so forth. The game also utilizes wear-points that a player's car can lose if they move through designated corners too fast. The stock game comes with two tracks on a board, the Monaco Gran Prix and a fictional "Race City". The game is already complicated enough and it only grows more with the advance set of rules that divide a players wear-points into [[SubsystemDamage several categories]], adds weather patterns and introduces characters to play as.

* AlwaysNight: Being a board game, Race City always takes place at night.