@kalnap what is your opinion on Christian Freeling's Dameo? If played a bit before on littlegolem and enjoyed it. The main complaint I see a lot is that people think the kings are too powerful.

@ganelon
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Quote from Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dameo :
In addition, men can jump over one or more other subsequent men of the same color in a straight line forward or diagonally, provided that the square ahead of the line is free.
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This is an awkward innovation which brings some complexity to a game, but majority of trained and titled players would treat this as a violation of draughts. There is nothing wrong with changing movements (for example, there can be a variant of draughts where a draughtsman can make ordinary or capturing moves like chess knights, but, nevertheless, it would be compatible with draughts). However, the jumping over own pieces turns a simple draughtsman into other piece: call it dameo-man, but never as draughtsman!
There is a bunch of HALMA family games where pieces can jump over each other, and there is nothing wrong with them, but HALMA is halma, and DRAUGHTS is draughts.
For this reason, I treat Dameo as a crossover game between draughts and halma, like CAMELOT, SUFFRAGETTO, Ossetic KENY. They are playable and enjoyable games, they have own beauty, but they are part of different game family.