Oddly Specific Board Games

About

Oddly Specific Board Games is a three-person collective in Eau Claire, Wisconsin - designers Scott Dyar, Drew Seveland and Phil Huebner - that publishes its own board games in small, self-produced runs instead of using crowdfunding. Components are largely made locally, so games ship with hand-painted wooden pieces and assembled parts, with printing for boards and cards outsourced. The catalog is deliberately niche and local-history themed: Ten Hours or No Sawdust (a 2023 release about the 1881 north-woods labour dispute), Gales of November (pickup-and-deliver shipping on the Great Lakes), Eau …