Drawstring dice bags are nearly ubiquitous amongst people who play with non-cubical dice. They can even be used as hand bags. But what about the inverse– a bag that looks like one of the dice?
Hirst Arts is a small company that makes silicone rubber molds for casting bricks to use with tabletop miniature games. They have some excellent tutorials on casting your own blocks and using them to build castles, dungeons, towns, and other scenes.
HexDraw is an easy to use graphical editor for designing hexagon gridl game maps. With your favourite bitmap-painting program you can draw anything you like directly on the hexes. Load an image as the background - let the map be see-through and place you
Write an adventure scenario for an “old-school”-style fantasy game and send it in by midnight, July 20, 2008. Prizes include miniatures “inspired by the iconic imagery of the early role-playing games.”
A good resource for the DIY gamer: some handy files that you can print out, fold up, and glue shut to hold your game cards. Great for CCGs, card games or board games with cards that came without boxes — or that had fragile boxes.
This article on programming map generators takes a look at what makes some types of puzzle maps (eg. a dungeon map) fun to explore — while other maps are not as much fun. Even if you’re drawing a map by hand, there are some good points here.
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