Sorry blog. I've been neglectful of late. It's been a while since my last write up. You'll be glad to know the reason for my absence has been all game related. I've been going hard out coming up with different designs and mechanics for the battle dice for IMDL!

Necessity is the mother of Invention as they say. If i can't get the configurable dice, can I come up with a way of reproducing the experience in another way? The answer is a rock solid 'maybe'. Over the last few weeks I've been surrounding myself with cardboard and spray glue, knocking together a number of different options, such as the one below.

Spinners and configurable plates could work. This particular prototype didn't. The spinner were too long for the dials and caught the plate recesses so I've had to make the dials bigger. This may make the whole thing unwieldy. Playtesting is required. (of course)

I've also come up with another idea of just using d6s and configuring the plates to those. It maybe a more elegant solution. We'll have to wait and see. I'll be testing both out within the week. Fingers crossed...