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Everyone loves to play cards. Everyone knows card games, and there are thousands upon thousands of games to play with a deck of cards. An inventive person decided to apply this same principle to boardgames, and thus the idea of the Piecepack was born. The Piecepack is not a game in and of itself - rather, it is a gaming system on which other games can be played. Over 100 games currently exist for the Piecepack, and even more are under development. The only problem is the limited availability of the system - generally, you need to make it yourself or order it through a small company. This Instructable will detail how to make your own.
Everyone loves to play cards. Everyone knows card games, and there are thousands upon thousands of games to play with a deck of cards. An inventive person decided to apply this same principle to boardgames, and thus the idea of the Piecepack was born. The Piecepack is not a game in and of itself - rather, it is a gaming system on which other games can be played. Over 100 games currently exist for the Piecepack, and even more are under development. The only problem is the limited availability of the system - generally, you need to make it yourself or order it through a small company. This Instructable will detail how to make your own.
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Signing UpStep 1Anatomy of the Piecepack
Before we begin building, it's probably best that you understand what you're building. The piecepack consists of 4 main types of components: Pawns, Tiles, Coins and Dice. Each of these pieces are further divided up into suits and ranks, like decks of cards.
Components:
6 tiles in each of the four suits, Arms, Crowns, Moons and Suns, further broken up into ranks of null, Ace and 2-5 (total of 24 tiles)
6 coins in each of the four suits, Arms, Crowns, Moons and Suns, further broken up into ranks of null, Ace and 2-5 (total of 24 coins)
4 dice, one colored to each suit, numbered null, ace and 2-5.
4 pawns, one colored to each suit.
The piecepack is divided up into four suits, like cards are.
Crowns are either yellow or green
Suns are red
Arms are blue
Moons are black.
You can see examples of all four suits below.
Further, the pieces each have a rank. Some are null, meaning that they are usually worth zero. Others have a large symbol on them - these are the aces, which are usually counted as one. Numbered tiles are ranked according to their numbers.
Components:
6 tiles in each of the four suits, Arms, Crowns, Moons and Suns, further broken up into ranks of null, Ace and 2-5 (total of 24 tiles)
6 coins in each of the four suits, Arms, Crowns, Moons and Suns, further broken up into ranks of null, Ace and 2-5 (total of 24 coins)
4 dice, one colored to each suit, numbered null, ace and 2-5.
4 pawns, one colored to each suit.
The piecepack is divided up into four suits, like cards are.
Crowns are either yellow or green
Suns are red
Arms are blue
Moons are black.
You can see examples of all four suits below.
Further, the pieces each have a rank. Some are null, meaning that they are usually worth zero. Others have a large symbol on them - these are the aces, which are usually counted as one. Numbered tiles are ranked according to their numbers.
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Jul 23, 2011. 7:19 PMRGoI
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Ooh, a good idea to massproduce these would be polymer clay tiles produced through the technique of caning!
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Jul 27, 2009. 9:01 PMwizard744
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this is cool i have used this as a slight remix and made a full dungeons and dragons set and im planning on making these they way you have them and giving them away during toys for tots this christmas i think the unfortunate kids with a lesser income would really appreicate them ! so i guess you could say that you have helped put a present under a needie kids DIY homemade christmas tree!
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Oct 31, 2008. 9:07 AMpalindrome
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Cool. Your set looks alot like the sets I made for Christmas gifts a few years ago. You, like me, have limited painting skills ;). For the + on the back side, I used a little cardboard stencil and a sharpie. They ended up a little more uniform that way. Nice to see you're into the piecepack, thanks for the instructable!
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