One False Step for Mankind PDF

One False Step Home was one of the original Cheapass Games, #037.

• Release Year: 2003

• Game Type: Board Game

• Designer: James Ernest

• Artist: Phil Foglio

• Players: 3 to 6

• Playing Time: 3 Hours

• Components to Print: Board, Cards, Rules

• You Also Need: Resource chips in Red, Green and Yellow; about 40 counters and one paper clip for each player; two 6-sided dice; and one master token

It’s the California Gold Rush, and your little corner of the world is so rich that you’ve decided to engage in a race to the Moon. Will you make it? Probably not. But what good is being rich if you can’t launch a few poorly-made moon rockets?

One False Step for Mankind was the first Cheapass boxed Game to have full-color components. It comes from a time when color printing was becoming almost as cheap as one-color printing, when the costs of manufacturing shifted from color separations to materials.

The game is fairly long, at three hours. Players bid for control of cities in a modular Old West landscape. Each turn, the cities make people, which spread out into the local mines and farms, making food and gold. You’ll need them both to build your rocket and race to the Moon.  

This bundle also includes the expansion, One False Step Home, which does actually manage to speed up the game a little bit (down to maybe two hours). But the expansion boards are in black and white, which makes them harder to read. So, pick your poison.

Links:

• Print-and-Play PDF package (Zip)

• One False Step Cards (PDF)

• How to Make Cards Video

• How to Make Boards Video

Note that the main ZIP file above was too big with the cards inside, because everything is color (woo), so the cards are a separate download right below it.

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