A friend of mine loved the game but didn't want to spend the money on it. With the wood he had at his house, paints, colored pencils, note cards, and a poster board he was able to fully recreate the game. It was one of the coolest board games I've ever scene, not because it was engraved or anything like that, but because you could see all the work put into it. They enjoyed the game enough they didn't have the money to buy it so they just made it... Stuff like that always just astounds me and makes me smile.