Custom Creations

Dixit Rabbit Miniature Upgrades

Dixit is an award winning game that takes a different approach that you standard tests of logic, strategy, knowledge or dexterity. Dixit is all about highlighting your imagination and the musings of your friends. The game plays as follows: Each player starts the game with six random cards. Players then

Guide

Guide To Painting Battlestar Galactica Ships

Board Game Geek user Tolbold was originally drawn painting by the range of Lord of the Rings miniatures from Games Workshop. While he eagerly jumped into it, he soon realized he was not the level of artist who could freehand designs or create lifelike shading by instinct. Not wanting to

Component Upgrades

Spector Ops Painted Miniatures

After much anticipation Spector Ops: Shadow of Babel by Plaid Hat Games is finally arriving at customer’s doors. What is the first thing you are going to do? I know many board game fans that are waiting, brush in hand, to paint the exquisite miniature in preparation for their

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Mensa Select Winners Announced

This year over 50 games were considered for the Mensa Select award and the winners are: * Castles of Mad King Ludwig by Bezier Games * Dragonwood by Gamewright * Lanterns: The Harvest Festival by Renegade Game Studios and Foxtrot Games * Letter Tycoon by Ad Magic/Breaking Games * Trekking the National Parks by

Component Upgrades

Upgrading Original Acquire

BGG user Paul Jefferies loves upgrading his eurogames. Here the story of how he upgraded his original copy of Acquire: This was one of the first non-children’s games I ever played…and it was also the first game I ever upgraded! Using flat black tiles to represent hotel chains

Game Awards

Origins Awards Nominees Announced

The awards are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design for outstanding games in the industry. This year, the Awards had thirteen categories. The Origins Awards are the oldest and only peer-based award system for the hobby games market. The winner of each category will be voted

Kickstarter

Stonemaier Games Treasure Chests Kickstarter

Stonemaier Games is a dedicated game company who’s love of board games includes creating great token upgrades. Their original treasure chest included six resource types (wood, stone, brick, gems, ore, and gold) common across many strategic board games. The new resource chests include 18 new premium tokens divided into

News

Dice Tower 2014 Awards Announced

The Dice Tower Network is proud to announce the nominees for the best games of 2014. A jury of more than fifty Dice Tower staff, prominent bloggers and reviewers went through all the games released in English in 2014, and chose the five best in each category – with ten games

Custom Creations

3D Resin Cast Laser Cut Settlers of Catan Tiles

Reddit user roryjacobevans created 3D tiles to upgrade his copy of the board game Settlers of Catan. He performed this enhancement by first sculpting clay models of the tiles and then making silicone molds out of them. From the molds he cast the tiles in resin which he adhered to

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Imperial Raider Expansion Pack Launching Soon

Last April, the release of the Rebel Transport Expansion Pack marked the introduction of the Epic Play format to X-Wing™. Permitting the use of the GR-75 medium transport and other huge starships too large for Standard Play, X-Wing Epic Play raises the stakes of your Star Wars space battles. Even

Accessories

Campaign Coins on Kickstarter

Founded in 2005 in Melbourne, Australia, King Of The Castle Games Company is a small, yet passionate band of adventurers dedicated to crafting high quality role playing game accessories. Their line of “campaign coins” is being expanded through a Kickstater project that ends in about 2 weeks. According to the

Accessories

Fit It In The Box: The Broken Token Insert For 7 Wonders

I recently acquired 7 Wonders and realized it suffered from one of the biggest problems plaguing the board game world. That is, the difficulty fitting expansion components into the original box. Luckily, The Broken Token has taken it upon themselves to enhance our experience by designing and producing box inserts

Component Upgrades

Final Painted Minis from Imperial Assault by Oldenhammer

While his post waxes philosophical about the meaning of lightsaber battles in the original movies, his painting of Imperial Assault minis is worth a second look. Source: Oldenhammer in Toronto

Component Upgrades

Painted Minis From XCOM: The Board Game

Reddit user Illusio has painted minis from Imperial Assault, Witcher, and the Firefly board games. Though a self-described average painter, I think these are one of the best examples of painted XCOM minis I have run across.

Guide Featured

3 Ways To Make Splendor More Splendid

Ever since I purchased the board game Splendor I have been thinking about enhancing it by replacing the poker chip jewels with something more life like.

Custom Creations

Handmade Wooden Settlers of Catan Board

For those who really love the board game Settlers of Catan creating a wooden version is a fantastic project to under take. Imgur user Bamboosz decided to do something a bit different: “I decided I wanted to make a wooden version of the game board. I thought a wooden board

Component Upgrades

Fantasy Metal Coins On Kickstarter

According to the Kickstarter campaign these coins are high quality and weighty that will complement any role-playing game, accessorize any fantasy character, or enhance any board game with currency. There are 42 designs in 14 distinct collections inspired from themes of ancient cultures, mystical elements and lore.  Each coin is

Custom Creations

Krosmaster Enhanced With Sculpted Summoned Units

Gabe Garcia-Lavin a huge fan of the Krosmaster: Arena board game and spend some time creating these custom pieces for the Dark Heroes expansion. Using super sculpey clay for its ability to hold finer details he created summoned units for both Katar and Vampyro. About Krosmaster Krosmaster: Arena is a

Custom Creations

3D Printed Alhambra Board Game Tiles

Alhambra is a board game where players acquire buildings to be placed in their Alhambra complex. The standard game comes with cardboard tiles printed with images of the various building types. This was not enough for Tom Headley. He used his 3D printing skills and designed 3D replicas of each

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Legendary Metal Coins For Gaming

If you want to add some panache to your themed board games these legendary metal coins may be just the item for you. These coins are being manufactured by Greek 3D printing firm Drawlab and come in a variety of options. Personally, I like the wear on the Greek and

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Bottom Of The 9th Pitcher And Runner Meeples

You have about two days left to back the game Bottom of the 9th on Kickstarter. Bottom of the 9th, designed by Darrell Louder (designer of Compounded) and Mike Mullins, is a quick dice and card game for 1 or 2 players that encapsulates the thrills and spills of baseball’

Custom Creations

Pandemic Roles in Lego

Pandemic is a great game that begs to be enhanced. Below you’ll find an inspired gallery of Lego figures made into the various Pandemic rolls from the base game and several of its expansions.

Component Upgrades

Star Wars Imperial Assault Miniatures by Oldenhammer

When Toronto native Matthew Sullivan heard that Fantasy Flight Games was releasing Imperial Assault, a Star Wars miniature combat game, he became so excited that he “darkened his trousers with a rich, fragrant urine.”  After cleaning that up and securing a copy of the game for himself he found his

Custom Creations

Custom Fallout Board Game

Custom game maker and Imgur user XsimonbelmontX created a Fallout themed monopoly game for his wife in 2013. However, this wasn’t enough to capture their enthusiasm for the Fallout series. Last year he began a journey to create a completely original board game based off the Fallout world. In

Component Upgrades

Love Letter "Tokens of Affection" Compilation

Love Letter is a fantastic card game that comes with a set of wooden cubes to use as the “tokens of affection” scoring markers. Below you will find a collection of ideas for how you can enhance your game experience!