Boards & Maps

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Fireball Island

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[Mark CMG]

I grabbed an incomplete Harry Potter game from a garage sale for a quarter just to get some funky figs and the game board. It essentially has one inch squares and I thought I might use it for a funny one-shot adventure someday, some sort of mind-bending plane-hopping excursion where the PCs wind up in all sorts of other boardgame universes.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Mystery at Hogwarts Game | Image | BoardGameGeek

 

[Infernal Teddy]

I remember sometime back around 1990 (give or take a couple years) there was a fantasy war game that came with a giant poster terrain battlemap. My brother had it at the time. I always wished I could find out what it was in case that map could be used for D&D.

I thought about asking about it here, but my memory is so vague that I can't really give a good description about it. I just remember the map had images of rivers and grasslands and there were plastic fantasy warriors. The map was really big from what I remember.

I've always wondered how many board games like that would have good maps for D&D.

I think the game you have in mind is... Battlemasters? The third joint production between MB and Games Workshop

 

[Rune]

I remember sometime back around 1990 (give or take a couple years) there was a fantasy war game that came with a giant poster terrain battlemap. My brother had it at the time. I always wished I could find out what it was in case that map could be used for D&D.

I thought about asking about it here, but my memory is so vague that I can't really give a good description about it. I just remember the map had images of rivers and grasslands and there were plastic fantasy warriors. The map was really big from what I remember.

I've always wondered how many board games like that would have good maps for D&D.

Do you mean Battle Masters?

That game was awesome! That and Hero Quest are how I got into painting minis! And the card-based action mechanic was interesting and easy!

Edit--Ninja'd by Infernal Teddy!

 

[SnowleopardVK]

Not sure about actually using the board in the game as a set piece, but a trap room based on Hungry, Hungry Hippos would be awesome!

Trap rooms based on board games huh? I like it. How about KerPlunk?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Or Mousetrap?

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Don't Wake Daddy!

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Don't Break the Ice!

... would make good trap room bases.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I loved Don't Break the Ice*. Good simple fun!

Wikipedia says it was marketed in 1968. How they mean that is unclear, but I got mine as a precocious kiddo in '68-'70 (I was born in '67)- all of my grandparents (and my Mom) were educators, and I've been told I was often given games as part of test-marketing before full release.

I doubt I was playing it right- I know I didn't share my hammer- but I played it a LOT!

 

[Mark CMG]

We had some fun with a Battle Masters set picked up at a Games Plus auction a couple years back by the Skach.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

Even pick up sticks could be fun to model...like diffusing a bomb.

and I LOVE the idea of using clue.



What about battleship to simulate an erupting volcano, as well? Players place their ships on one side, each round, the dm asks a square, and they take damage...when all the ships are sunk, the volcano explodes.



More games need to capitalize on using other games, like dread does.