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I finally found a place, thanks to a commenter on Flywheel, that helps you make board games. It looks like that they can even custom fabricate certain pieces. This would be interesting if anyone ever considered creating Bertzel Chess.

Game Inventor Kits and other assorted goodies.

You can buy just the boxes, just the board, or an entire kit. My favorite item is a 2 lb bucket of bits. You know, if I ever win the lottery, I'm calling these guys. Even if I don't, I'm ordering the Bucket of Bits on my next payday.

Minimus Game

It all starts at the wiki.

I wrote about the upcoming game a bit ago. Now, we are in full swing. Since the players are located all over the country, we are using a forum+wiki to track everything. My character is Henry Carter. He is tracked in chapter one with the heading "Daisy Bell".

I haven't played a serious game in a long time and I am enjoying this one.

I've also learned that much of the rules-medium (d20) or rules-heavy (GURPS) systems can hinder a good story-based game if a GM is not careful. Scott, is a good GM. I know this from playing D&D with him eons ago. His style is a good story building style, as opposed to my style which is more world-building. Whereas I may start to get bogged down in the precise definition of Line-of-Sight, or want to map out exactly how fast Henry's bike can travel, or work out the exact geography of the UFO I saw land, Scott moves things along, weaving all the characters together.

Check out the game, it should be a fun read. Also, keep an eye on Scott - he may write books about this setting. If he does, I'll create game aids for them for Action!

Tri-Hex and other useful pieces

I like Chess variants a great deal. In fact, my wife bought me an Omega Chess set for Christmas. While there a couple months ago, I happened upon an invention by Graeme C Neatham. It is basically a variation of chess on a hexagonal board. No surprise, considering the link. The difference comes in splitting hexes into triads. Each triad has a different color.

Some time ago, I mentioned a hexagonal variation of Tactique. Seeing this board gave me all sorts of ideas. This also gave me ideas for using this type of hex paper for RPGs instead of traditional hex paper. For both, I hope to explore different ideas.

Here are the PDFs of a black and white version and the colorized version. What is different from Greame's design is that my hexes are not rotated 90 degress and the colors are different. I will also provide a hex shaped pdf soon. I realize that a hex shape is more conducive to board games.

Black and White Tri-Hexes | Color Tri-Hexes

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