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Fortunately, there's a solution that applies for most print and play games out there: RISK. Regardless of what version of Risk you can get your hands on, you'll have immediate access to over 50 small game bits in six different colors. My personal favorite version of Risk to raid is my vintage wooden book edition because all of the pieces are wooden cubes. If you don't own a copy of Risk, fear not - Risk is one of the easiest games around to find, and cheap. Just visit some local thrift shops or find out when a nearby neighborhood or city is having a garage sale weekend and go hunting.
Here's a short list of print and play games that I've been able to play using pieces from Risk:
- Kill Doctor Lucky
- Use to represent Doctor Lucky and each player.
- Magic: the Gathering
- Substitute for counters. If you're really organized, you could even use different colors to represent various counter types.
- Space Alert
- Easily track the status of the ship's various systems that Space Alert requires.
- Ticket to Ride (any map)
- Represent your train cars - there are plenty of bits in each color to cover you.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who likes to build print & play board games. Personally, my girlfriend thinks it's weird. With the game pieces I use to raid other board games, but where's the fun in that? I have to return them if I want to play them again. If I want tiny blocks or something similar, I found some like that here for only 2$. Most pieces you can make yourself if you think a little outside the box. I made basic pawns for Death angel out of post it notes. I turned them in to nice small different colored oragami pawn chess pieces..
ReplyDeleteAlthough lately, I've been cutting out pieces and pasting them on chipboard. It's pretty cheap, and gives the pieces a nice thickness that's easy to play with.
Print and play games are fantastic. =) I love assembling them and trying them out. I like your idea of just buying wood blocks and chipboard to have so you aren't raiding your own games. If you're willing to "break up" a game though, you can just use one for its pieces, especially if you can find used copies for $2 or $3. A friend of mine has actually started buying games at garage sales and thrift shops specifically for their parts to use in P&P games. Risk is his favorite because aside from the assortment of colored pieces, he can also glue down a almost any size P&P game board on top of the Risk board, and then trim the board to fit.
DeleteThat's a great idea next time I print out a full board, if I start feeling lazy :D Lately I was making games where various tiles as the board (such as skirmish wars and magic realm) so chipboard ended up working great for them. Also I forgot to mention card stock! Card stock has been my friend in printing out a lot of my print & play games.
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