Starbase Jeff PDF

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Starbase Jeff is a game of deep space construction for 2 to 4 players. Players add cards to the ever-growing space station, earning money from other players who must connect to theirs.

This is the mostly-original version of Starbase Jeff, a duplicate of the 1998 edition from Cheapass Games. It includes PDF files for the envelope, cards, and rules. We have also included a color-tinted version of the same cards.

As with all our print-and-play files, the price for this product is strictly optional. You may also download it for free using the first link below.

Starbase Jeff is a game of deep space construction for 2 to 4 players. Players add cards to the ever-growing space station, earning money from other players who must connect to theirs.

This is the mostly-original version of Starbase Jeff, a duplicate of the 1998 edition from Cheapass Games. It includes PDF files for the envelope, cards, and rules. We have also included a color-tinted version of the same cards.

As with all our print-and-play files, the price for this product is strictly optional. You may also download it for free using the first link below.

Starbase Jeff is an unusual game of starbase building and enterprise. It was originally released by Cheapass Games, #017.

  • Release Year: 1998

  • Game Type: Tile-Building Card Game

  • Designers: James Ernest, Jim Geldmacher

  • Artist: Jim Geldmacher

  • Players: 2 to 4

  • Playing Time: 20 Minutes

  • Components to Print: Cards, Rules

  • You Also Need: Money, around 50 credits per player

Starbase Jeff was the first collaboration between Cheapass Games and an outside designer. Jim Gelmacher brought the tile-building game to James Ernest, who promptly added the “for money” element.

Players each have their own deck of cards, and each chooses a card simultaneously on each round. The cards are added to the station in numeric order, with duplicated cards being deferred until later rounds. Deferred cards can all be played together, so players can sometimes try to defer several cards in a row.

It costs money (which is paid into the pot) to build most of the pieces, but you can collect money by building endcaps, or by forcing other players to connect through your parts of the station. The bigger the connection, the bigger the penalty.

Whoever closes off the station collects the pot, but the real goal is to end up with more money than you started with.

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Note that the cards in Starbase Jeff are square, so we can’t put this game on DriveThruCards. We recommend that you make these into tile cards, explained above, for the best playing experience.

If you are printing with the original grayscale files, these are meant to be printed on different colors of cardstock (like the original). If you’re printing on white paper, you can use the newer color-tinted files.

Thanks for supporting Crab Fragment Labs, and enjoy Starbase Jeff!