Black Death is a board game for 2–6 players that was published by Blacksburg Tactical Research Center in 1993.
Black Death, designed by Greg Porter, is a game in which players are diseases sweeping across medieval Europe in 1347.
[1] The game components are: Each player either takes the role of a historical plague (measles, dysentery, etc.
The rules suggest that this number be: There are also four variants: In the October 1993 edition of Dragon (Issue #198), Rick Swan called the game's premise "bizarre", and felt that, with relatively few rules, the game "walks a fine line between being simple and simple-minded".
He concluded that the game was unlikely to be a good candidate for the long term, "But for the first few plays anyway, the fun is, er, contagious.