Alzrius
The EN World kitten
I did that with the Dragonchess game from (if I recall correctly) Dragon magazine issue #100, though it was mostly flimsy pieces of cardboard that I colored in.As a Barsoom fan since my teens, I did like many others when first reading The Chessmen of Mars (where the game of jetan was first described) and built myself a jetan board out of orange posterboard and cobbled together the game pieces from two differently-sized chess sets. (Jetan has two types of kind-of-rooks and two types of kind-of-bishops, and is played on a chessboard containing 100 squares, not the 64 of chess.) In any case, it's been an enjoyable read.