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HUFFLEPUFF 2011-18
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If you have and idea to make it work, please let me know.
we could use some of those for the Hex tiles, but honestly I think the checkerboard would still look the best.
I would have to agree.
Meeple V03 gets my vote!
Also liking Sorry V01.
Prime 2012- Melisandre (GoT)
Prime 2013- Regular nerd attire
Prime 2014- Aurin Esper from WIldstar + Vintage Chell
Prime 2015- Splatoon Inkling + Dream Sequence Bee + Aurin Esper + Vintage Chell
Prime2016- Handmade nerdy dresses (cosplay break)
Enforced: West 2015, West 2016
While the checkerboard looks "better," that might just be because it's more familiar and easier to recognize at a larger grid size. However, as an avid board gamer, the checkerboard (and the Sorry piece) represent everything tabletop gamers have been trying to get away from. My gaming group's public Meetup page has pictures and descriptions of us playing Android, Twilight Imperium III, Eclipse, and so on, yet every other profile from new people wanting to join is "Monopoly/Scrabble/Uno is my favorite game." In as much as Video Gaming has matured over the last two console generations, so has tabletop, and I just think that hexes are far more representative of that. /rant
On the one hand, I totally agree with your reasoning. Tabletop ~is~ much more than the "mainstream classics", and there's a part of me that would love for the coin to represent that.
On the other hand, aesthetics matter a great deal with a collector's item like this, and simplicity trumps many things when crafting a coin, due to the limits imposed by the nature of the thing (in particular, the limitations in 'differentiation' between different areas of the coin; your tools are basically 'raised' and 'recessed'). On that side of things, the simpler board simply works better - though that may simply be that no one has yet come up with the 'right' way to do a hex board; I'd be more than happy to eat crow (or, rather, some sort of soy- or seitan-based crow substitute =P) if someone hits on a good way to represent one.
And a counterpoint on the first hand...while tabletop is much more than those basic games...they're a part of it too, a part of the heritage. To entirely dismiss them because tabletop has matured to be much more, is as silly an idea IMO as to dismiss Zork et al because video gaming has matured to be so much more than them.
But that's just my 2 cents $22.37. =P
My vote is for Meeple V03.
Checkerboard works really well I think.
May be too late for this suggestion but how about a Battlestar Gallactica game piece instead?
While BSG is a great game, its pieces are just cardboard standouts of the characters; the Meeple is a universal sign of board games.
It's as close to universal you can get outside of dice.
Out of curiousity, are Meeples ever sold separately from any game? Do they come packaged with those games? Or are you just reusing the figures from Carcassonne? Again, I have very limited experience with board games, and only know about Meeples through reading about Carcassonne so you'll have to enlighten me. :P
TWDT '13: Hufflepuff OotP
Games that use Meeples come with their own, sometimes with a slight variation in design (like the cowboy Meeples for Carson City). An interesting trend in board game modding is to sculpt custom variants of Meeples and actually add them to games that don't come with them, if they use a similar action/worker placement mechanic.
Haha yeah should have been more specific but yeah I meant a raider or a viper.
It would obviously have to be a outline of the piece but they do have a very distinctive shape to them.
Prime 2012- Melisandre (GoT)
Prime 2013- Regular nerd attire
Prime 2014- Aurin Esper from WIldstar + Vintage Chell
Prime 2015- Splatoon Inkling + Dream Sequence Bee + Aurin Esper + Vintage Chell
Prime2016- Handmade nerdy dresses (cosplay break)
How about a soccerball pattern? Shaded hexes surrounded by light hexes?
Meeple V06
Meeple V07
(The perspective may be a little off still, but you get the idea of what it looks like.)
Let me know if you like the way either of these Hex patterns look.
I think we have reached the point where it is time to decide the general look of the front. Once I get some feedback on the hex pattern above, I will post the voting.
After we decide the general look we will finalize the numbers on the dice.
That being said, I do think the d20 looks rather naked having just a single number on it. Especially compared to the D6 which has marks on all 3 visible sides. I think it would look much more natural with the rest of it's numbers on the faces.
Enforced: West 2015, West 2016
The numbers will be added, I have just been focusing on the background first.
@Durinthal
Yes, the D20 that I took a picture of for that mock up had 13 on top by no accident.
Pax Attendee/Enforcer:
Prime - '11 Attendee, '12 Enforcer, '13 Enforcer
East - '12 Attendee, '15 Enforcer