Today’s word was ‘conch’, as in the shell. I had googled a nice reference, never seen one in person.

The colony game had me thinking about a straight up table-top role-playing game, using cards instead of dice so we can use resource allocation as well as pure randomness, and keep randomness low, not just with a d6 but with face value and four or five suits if using a tarot deck and treating the major arcana as an additional suit...

The name of the game is Starships and Aliens, a play on Dungeons and Dragons, Tunnels and Trolls (or Mazes and Monsters, for that matter). Therefore it must have rules for Starships, building, flying and fighting them, as well as Aliens, their strange new/old worlds and civilizations, as well as characters, of course.