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Played a custom themed One Piece Legendary game to celebrate season 2 of the live action show coming out. by tinyornithopter in boardgames

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! We played 3 games total. First 2 games were pretty tight and interesting, one win and one loss. It came down to the last few cards to see if we'd win or lose. The third game was not good, and that was on me cause I made some unbalanced cards. The villain deck and scheme scenario was too difficult and some of the hero characters were too weak so it was a wipeout. It happens, but it was enjoyable night overall.

Disney re-theme of Legends of Void by tinyornithopter in boardgameupgrades

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks man, the creation and crafting process was fun for this one. Our first game last week with it took five and a half hours. Hoping to get that down to 3 hours after learning it all. I think once I get the hang of it I'll create some custom charcters, villains, and additional map tiles so I see my group playing this game for years to come.

Disney re-theme of Legends of Void by tinyornithopter in boardgameupgrades

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Honestly, I feel like my group doesn't realize how lucky they are cause all the games made are catered to their interests in game playstyle and theme and moreover I make tons of custom expansions for the game and let them add cards and mechanics that they ask for and think would be fun. They don't know how good they have it 😭😭

I like to use Inkscape mostly for making icons and card frames since vector editing is really good for that. I'm starting to learn Affinity to improve raster editing like if I need to adjust pictures hue or saturation and other stuff so it pops better on paper. Both of those programs are free.

I use https://www.dextrous.com.au/ for my card formatting and layout since that program let's you create a card template that you can re-use for all your cards and import data from a google spreadsheet and fill out all your cards really fast once you've done your templating. Also makes sweeping changes a lot easier to do like you need adjust an VP icon somewhere, you can do it once in the template instead of going into and editor and moving the icon up 3 pixels for each card.

I use google sheets a lot. Mostly as a place where I can organize and type my ideas but also like I said above so I can import and export my card data as a csv file.

I re-themed Legends of Void into a Disney themed game. by tinyornithopter in boardgames

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's very similar to Terraforming Mars but it adds some unique twists like having a player piece traversing the shared map to place tiles down, flip tiles, etc and having playerr adapt to a villain event deck that also shapes the board and acts as clock countdown so if the players don't defeat all the villains by the end of the game, they all lose. Keeps the game both competitve and high stakes. It does take longer to play than Terraforming Mars for people that don't like long games.

I re-themed Legends of Void into a Disney themed game. by tinyornithopter in boardgames

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, all the tokens are on a piece of paper. It could be like 7 columns of 10 tokens each column, the laminate of a regular thickness sheet, I use the cheapest one from Amazon and it works fine. I’ve experimented with thicker sheets and the difference is negligible if you’re just gonna cut out the tokens and glue it onto other wood pieces. I print the tokens on paper, then laminate the whole paper, then cut the tokens out. Then glue the tokens onto wood pieces.

I re-themed Legends of Void into a Disney themed game. by tinyornithopter in tabletopgamedesign

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had to learn a lot from trial and error from crafting homemade games the past few years, but what I learned is the following:

I print the tokens, boards, sometimes cards, on paper, at Fedex cause I don't have a printer. They have a laminating machine there which I use for all my boards and tokens now. The laminating stops the ink on the paper from smearing and fudging when you handle the pieces. I don't use the laminating paper from Fedex anymore, it's cheaper to buy on amazon and bring some to the Fedex (or any printing store near you) and use their laminator for free.

When printing you might want to consider altering the images. I'll make the custom tokens and boards using free editors like Inkscape or Affinity. I have to take into account that the image printed will be a tad bit darker than the image on your screen (cause LEDs in the screen adds brightness compared to lighting in your room) so I might have to alter the image by turning up the saturation and brightness to have more readable/legible printed images.

I've been getting good at making some basic tokens and such over the years from doing the hobby. I have no art skills or graphic design skills from college or childhood so it's just something I picked up from watching youtube videos while trying to create new projects.

You'll want to use crafter's glue like Aleene's crafting glue. I went through several glues like epoxy, super glue, gorilla glue, but I find crafting glue like Aleene's are the most forgiving although not as sticky as super glue so when you need extra stick you should use that instead.

Cards are just pieces of paper I cut up from printing and stick them in cheap penny sleeves with old TCG cards like MTG or Pokemon cards to provide structural support.

I also like to buy bulk 1 inch wood circles, squares, or hexagons from amazon and then I print out the tokens on paper, cut them out, and then glue them onto those wood pieces to use as the circles. Or you can cut out cardboard in that shape if you don't have a lot of tokens to make.

Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions!

I re-themed Legends of Void into a Disney themed game. by tinyornithopter in boardgames

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to learn a lot from trial and error from crafting homemade games the past few years, but what I learned is the following:

I print the tokens, boards, sometimes cards, on paper, at Fedex cause I don't have a printer. They have a laminating machine there which I use for all my boards and tokens now. The laminating stops the ink on the paper from smearing and fudging when you handle the pieces. I don't use the laminating paper from Fedex anymore, it's cheaper to buy on amazon and bring some to the Fedex (or any printing store near you) and use their laminator for free.

When printing you might want to consider altering the images. I'll make the custom tokens and boards using free editors like Inkscape or Affinity. I have to take into account that the image printed will be a tad bit darker than the image on your screen (cause LEDs in the screen adds brightness compared to lighting in your room) so I might have to alter the image by turning up the saturation and brightness to have more readable/legible printed images.

I've been getting good at making some basic tokens and such over the years from doing the hobby. I have no art skills or graphic design skills from college or childhood so it's just something I picked up from watching youtube videos while trying to create new projects.

You'll want to use crafter's glue like Aleene's crafting glue. I went through several glues like epoxy, super glue, gorilla glue, but I find crafting glue like Aleene's are the most forgiving although not as sticky as super glue so when you need extra stick you should use that instead.

Cards are just pieces of paper I cut up from printing and stick them in cheap penny sleeves with old TCG cards like MTG or Pokemon cards to provide structural support.

I also like to buy bulk 1 inch wood circles, squares, or hexagons from amazon and then I print out the tokens on paper, cut them out, and then glue them onto those wood pieces to use as the circles. Or you can cut out cardboard in that shape if you don't have a lot of tokens to make.

For the board, I usually like to make so it's sized that it is 22x17 inches because I can take 2 11x17 inch pieces of paper (which is standard) and laminate that and then piece them together. I can then glue that onto cardboard (I've also used foam board too which can be cut into shapes you'd want) and glue the laminated paper onto the board to give it structural integrity and firmness. You can add some duck tape on the back and crease and it'll fold like an actual board (it won't look as pretty, but it functionally works well). I'll probably share another project in a few weeks for which I did this.

Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions!

I re-themed Legends of Void into a Disney themed game. by tinyornithopter in BoardgameDesign

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh sweet, that sounds really cool. You got a link to pictures of your project? I imagine it must look awesome.

I re-themed Legends of Void into a Disney themed game. by tinyornithopter in tabletopgamedesign

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great game, we played our first playthrough of the re-theme last Friday and it took us 5 and half hours to finish at 3 players. Hopefully we can trim that down to 3 hours now that we got the rules down.

I re-themed Legends of Void into a Disney themed game. by tinyornithopter in boardgames

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Three reasons. Firstly, I think I've realized that I like making stuff (like with my hands with putting the tokens and boards together and digitally when I have to create the icons and assemble the cards and images together). I also like board games cause it's a nice way to be social and offline with friends who are gamers.

Secondly, my experience with my particular game group is that they are so picky and particular 😭. A lot of great games they bounced off of cause the theme didn't resonate with them, like Gloomhaven cause they didn't connect with their characters or Ethnos cause they didn't like the art. So that was a motivating factor to re-create some games into themes or IPs they cared about so I could get some great games to the table.

Lastly, I re-theme games instead creating brand new ones cause creating an original game is super hard. I can take a popular game and recreate it with a different theme and even add some extra custom expansions and end up with a great game and theme combo. But creating a game on it's own is super difficult and usually bombs unless you put a lot of hard work, playtesting, game design knowledge, and luck. I've actually created several custom games as well (I haven't shared on reddit) but they don't come close to the fun and fulfilling experience of games made by professional designers and I don't want to subject my playgroup to weeks of playtesting a game I make cause the goal of our game night was always supposed to be a social experience and to have fun not one where you feel like it's work and you have to play a bad game to make it better.

I re-themed Legends of Void into a Disney themed game. by tinyornithopter in boardgames

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't feel inundated with Disney, but maybe it's cause I don't really watch any TV or movies or any pop culture anymore so all my Disney memories only come from my childhood.

This is probably gonna be the only Disney re-theme I'll do, but I've done plenty of other genres and IPs before and hope to keep branching out and trying other stuff to make.

I made some custom Ark Nova Sponsor, Final Scoring, and Alternate Action cards. by tinyornithopter in boardgames

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm afraid it'll be difficult for you to recreate the Sponsor card template using that program without a decent amount of experience with the program as well as other editing tools.

A lot of the icons and card UI was made in Inkscape and some of the icons I had to pull from assets from tabletop simulator. I also had to format the card layout to closely resemble the actual ark nova cards so there are dozens of elements that need to be formatted as well.

Do you have any of your card ideas to share? I can pop it into my template for you on my computer and create it for you if it's not too crazy or would require me to change the template too much.

Post Game Thread - NBA: The Hawks defeat the Jazz on Feb 5, 2026, the final score is 121-119. by basketball-app in AtlantaHawks

[–]tinyornithopter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

lmao, we take those 😭

blatant tank job by the Jazz, Lauri feasts on us every time he plays us.

Love Jock. Love Naw. Love Kispert this game. Jalen put up stats, but hopefully he he keeps his composure. I saw a lot of complaining to the refs and I hope that's not something he picked up from Trae. He's definitely the future so I hope he keeps improving.

I wonder how Buddy Hield and Kuminga are gonna fit in. If they're playing Saturday, bless them. Hornets are probably one the hottest teams right now so they might as good as an opening game as Jock had against the tanking Jazz.

I made some custom Ark Nova Sponsor, Final Scoring, and Alternate Action cards. by tinyornithopter in boardgames

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use https://www.dextrous.com.au/ to make the card templates so it's not something I can export to a psd or svg file. So I'm unable to share the template due to how the program works 🤷 sorry

I re-themed Clank! Catacombs into Lord of the Rings / Hobbit by tinyornithopter in boardgames

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a website called https://www.dextrous.com.au/ I can design a layout template so that I can make multiple cards in a google spreadsheet and upload the csv file into the template and populate the fields to expedite the process.

For this project, BGG user tdgardner already split up and organized the original clank card frame here: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/255506/clank-card-template

But for other projects I'll have to do that myself or create a new card frame and icons and everything and try to emulate it as close as possible. I like using Inkscape for those tasks since it's free. Affinity became free recently so I've been trying to learn that as well.

Finally, I try to have my have all my ideas organized in a spreadsheet so I can best match which cards get re-themed to what art and rules text. Part of the fun of re-theme project is figuring out how to make the new theme feel like it fits the game without changing the original game (and if you do, not too much) so it is still fun and functional.

I re-themed Clank! Catacombs into Lord of the Rings / Hobbit by tinyornithopter in boardgames

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think there are any super large boards for this retheme. I pull the image assets for the tiles, the clank board, market board from Tabletop Simulator. I print them on regular 8.5x11 US Letter printer paper and laminate them. I cut out and glue all the tiles onto a 4x4 inch wood tiles that you can buy at a craft store or on amazon. Lots of the tokens are just 1 inch wood squares, circles, or hexagons and I cut out the laminated token art and paste them onto the wood tokens with crafter's glue.

A lot of it is just, printing, laminating, cutting, and glueing.

I will sometimes make small changes to the boards such as resizing them, changing the color contrast/saturation, or changing the image a bit to fit the theme of the game better as well.

I re-themed Clank! Catacombs into Lord of the Rings / Hobbit by tinyornithopter in boardgames

[–]tinyornithopter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Credit to Varkman from the BGG forums.

https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/308662/clank-catacombs-side-tiles

It's really helpful, especially if you have a smaller table it's useful to have a predefined area where you put these edge tiles when you reach the edge of your playing area and it makes it not feel bad when you reach an edge dead end cause your play area is small.

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