paper and pencil brikwars?
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paper and pencil brikwars?
the only reason I am asking this is I have no legos. Can brik wars be played on paper?
(I can see a lot of ways this can be useful players are not limited to what they own) Anyway can it be done ??????
(I can see a lot of ways this can be useful players are not limited to what they own) Anyway can it be done ??????
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Years ago in a town far far away I ran a Cthulhu adventure on Manly Santa Day day. But I needed some specific characters like Santa etc..
So I made them out of paper.
You may have seen people selling images of a character on a rectangle of paper that sits in a plastic holder to make it stand up.
So you could photoshop a character on your computer, print it, cut it out with some extra tab material at the bottom.
Then tape the tab onto something, a square of cardboard, a quarter, whatever.
I had cut up masonite squares and taped them to that.
I drew them by hand using a Pilot pen and colored them in with colored pencils.
So I made them out of paper.
You may have seen people selling images of a character on a rectangle of paper that sits in a plastic holder to make it stand up.
So you could photoshop a character on your computer, print it, cut it out with some extra tab material at the bottom.
Then tape the tab onto something, a square of cardboard, a quarter, whatever.
I had cut up masonite squares and taped them to that.
I drew them by hand using a Pilot pen and colored them in with colored pencils.
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Tzan's idea sounds reasonable. Alternatively, Pocket Dungeon could easily be adapted to Brikwars style play; have a sheet of graph paper, and assign each box a unit of measurement(studs, inches, your choice). Represent units through different glass pips, or simply penciled-in symbols. The rules would remain just about the same, and you could even string together multiple sheets of graph paper to achieve larger battlefields.
@Tzan: Mom's running Kingmaker for Dad, a few family friends, and I. She'd get a kick out of those paper minis (despite the fact that she bought and painted most of the main baddies, I believe).
@Tzan: Mom's running Kingmaker for Dad, a few family friends, and I. She'd get a kick out of those paper minis (despite the fact that she bought and painted most of the main baddies, I believe).
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Eeeeh, I can get awesome battles from Brikwars, Pocket Dungeon, Warhammer, yadda yadda yadda... no, I play D&D for the roleplay and the story.enders_shadow wrote: and isn't most of the point of Dnd to fight awesome battles? I play, and, while I enjoy the roleplay, necessitate at least one battle per session
But that, my friend, is more personal preference.
It also has nothing to do with lordracnar's question, so let's leave that where it is.
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I wouldnt say that was , like Oloth said, D&D, being as versatile as it is, focuses on RPG aspects, rather then just combat. Of course the combat element takes a big slice of the cake, but if the other stuff didnt exist, it would just be like Pocket Dungeonenders_shadow wrote: and isn't most of the point of Dnd to fight awesome battles? I play, and, while I enjoy the roleplay, necessitate at least one battle per session
Back to the topic here, I also found a few sites around the web that have this paper minis. Ill try to mount a few up. Im interested in this because Im making like a Warhammer wargame but in much larger scale and yet more simple, and no, not like Warmaster
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I've wondered about that idea.Pwnerade wrote:I remember seeing a microspace battle done in LDD.
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When I was still playing Warhammer my spare Elf army was entirely printed paper figures that were mounted on card. It was really good because an entire army of around 2500 points could be carried in a small folder which meant that it was really easy to take a playable army with you when travelling.BFenix wrote:
Back to the topic here, I also found a few sites around the web that have this paper minis. Ill try to mount a few up. Im interested in this because Im making like a Warhammer wargame but in much larger scale and yet more simple, and no, not like Warmaster
Not quite all of it, but you get the idea. I've still got some of the artwork about somewhere.