Production divertimento

Producing the relatively large number of terrain tiles for prototypes has been a concern. In fact I just bought a copy of Roads & Boards plus &cetera just because I expected that I’d also be able to use the many hundreds of bits from those games in the prototypes for this one. Of course it didn’t hurt that I also like Roads & Boats.

And of course I’ve pretty much decided that hexagonal tiles (such as in Roads & Boats) are an unnecessary complexity for this game. Oh well. The problem remains: How to produce the several hundreds of terrain tiles needed?

Solution:

1. Thin wood tiles about 1.5” square from the local craft store.
2. A big sealed storage or fridge container
3. Cheap poster paint.
4. A good-sized dollop of poster paint in the container, some water as solvent, toss in the tiles, shake vigorously, remove and let tiles dry on a piece of chicken wire from the home DIY store.