Personal observations and thoughts of a general ratty nature.
The Earth is not flat and even a desert board should have some changes in elevation. Our board is set in an area of large rolling hills. So large that individual hills are impractical…here we go with tiles. Now when… Continue Reading
I have to admit that much of my planning for convention games is centered on imagining all the ways things can go horribly wrong. This can take all sorts of forms, be it missing figures or components, broken terrain or… Continue Reading
Allow me to introduce you to the Ikea Samla box because moving forward many design decisions for the project will be guided by this box. If the box is sitting in the middle of the floor we have reached the… Continue Reading
Very often when the Man-Beast and I have an argument…so often…the crux of the dispute involves the meaning of words. Or the use of words. Now whether or not this is a clever diversion from the subject on the part… Continue Reading
This is Ed tagging back in to discuss force structure and playtesting the scenario. Now that we’ve gotten a draft map to use, it will be much easier to work out some of the rough edges on the way to… Continue Reading
In the past I built many full-sized boards from plans drawn on a piece of graph paper. I draw pretty tight plans and we’re both good at interpreting ground from maps BUT, producing terrain this way forces you to accept… Continue Reading