# Second City

Second City is a board game.

- **Complexity:** 2 out of 5
- **Year published:** 2012
- **Categories:** Scenario / Adventure / Module, Accessory (dice, maps, screens, cards), Campaign Setting (game world)
- **Mechanics:** Skill Based (buy or gain skills), Class Based (Pilot, Wizard, Scientist, etc), Attribute/Stat Based (STR, CON, PER, etc), Trait / Aspect Based (personality affects gameplay), Roll and keep (4k2 means roll 4 and keep 2), Dice Pool (Roll multiple dice vs target), Dice (Primarily d10), Exploding Dice (Die may 'explode' into a second roll)
- **Owned by:** 1 Ludoya players

**Designers:** Dave Laderoute, Robert Hobart, Daniel Briscoe, Nancy Sauer, Maxime LaMaire, Shawn Carman, Robert Denton, Ryan Reese, Seth Mason, Yoon Ha Lee, Kevin Blake

**Artists:** Ed Cox, Jeff Hill (I), Michael Phillippi, Jason Engle, MuYoung Kim, Patrick McEvoy, Ramón Pérez (I), Wen Juinn, Edwin David, Mike Capprotti, Jeff Himmelman, Hugh James, Alex Drummond, Dan Moenster, Britt Martin, Alberto Tavira, Llyn Hunter, Aurélien Hubert, Drew Baker, Jorge Matar, Luis Nuñez de Castro, Glen Osterberger, Fares Maese, Edward Fetterman, Isuardi Therianto, April Lee, Marc Scheff, Carlos Nunez de Castro Torres, Noah Bradley, Ben Peck, Jon Hodgson, Stefano Baldo, Luis Vasquez, Gemma Tegelaers, Sergio Camarena, Isaak Lien, Aaron Miller, Mario Wibisono, Charles Urbach, Tony Foti, Oliver Specht, Diego Gisbert Llorens, Franz Vohwinkel, Lake Hurwitz, Steve Argyle, Erich Schreiner, Asier Martinez Lopez, Thomas Denmark, Carlos Cardenas, Stu Barnes, David Horne, Chris Pritchard, Richard Garcia, Michael Kaluta, Anthony Grabski, Manuel Calderon, Steve Snyder, Florian Stitz, Hector Herrera, Anna Christenson, Matt Zeilinger, Heather Kreiter, Miss Tak, Alayna Lemmer-Danner, J. Edwin Stevens, William O'Connor, Raymond Gaustadnes, Jason Juta, Conceptopolis, Jonathan Hunt, Dan Scott, Brent Chumley, Veronica Jones

**Publishers:** Alderac Entertainment Group

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/second-city)
- [Second City in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/second-city)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/133454)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-11-10. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._