Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 4710469" data-attributes="member: 51942">Slightly unrelated, but we used to have problems with fiddliness on the game board.&nbsp; We now use a more widely-spaced game board, 3cm-square or about 20% extra width+height on a square.&nbsp; That makes working with markers and the annoyingly oversized figurines (i.e. all of them) easier.&nbsp; I wonder what the mini designers were thinking when they made all those figures that extend past their base.&nbsp; Sure, it looks cool, but it's really unhandy.I'm still looking for the ideal markers; I like the pipe cleaner idea, but I think I'd also want some discs under the minis, and if so, nice+solid discs are much easier to move and see.&nbsp; We used poker chips once, which worked great - but they're a bit too big.Those magnetic markers, are they very magnetic?&nbsp; I could imagine the stickiness being somewhat annoying.We also use two slightly undersized game boards rather than one large one; this let's the DM pre-draw some stuff and just swap boards for fast gameplay, it's a little easier to handle, and if you really want a huge battle-mat, you just place em side-by-side.<img src="http://sites.google.com/site/dinsdagdraken/_/rsrc/1233351044906/Campaign2008/IMG_7190.jpg?width=600" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="eamon, post: 4710469, member: 51942"] Slightly unrelated, but we used to have problems with fiddliness on the game board. We now use a more widely-spaced game board, 3cm-square or about 20% extra width+height on a square. That makes working with markers and the annoyingly oversized figurines (i.e. all of them) easier. I wonder what the mini designers were thinking when they made all those figures that extend past their base. Sure, it looks cool, but it's really unhandy. I'm still looking for the ideal markers; I like the pipe cleaner idea, but I think I'd also want some discs under the minis, and if so, nice+solid discs are much easier to move and see. We used poker chips once, which worked great - but they're a bit too big. Those magnetic markers, are they very magnetic? I could imagine the stickiness being somewhat annoying. We also use two slightly undersized game boards rather than one large one; this let's the DM pre-draw some stuff and just swap boards for fast gameplay, it's a little easier to handle, and if you really want a huge battle-mat, you just place em side-by-side. [IMG]http://sites.google.com/site/dinsdagdraken/_/rsrc/1233351044906/Campaign2008/IMG_7190.jpg?width=600[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

Verification