Welcome to the first public announcement of the new table top role playing game that I have been developing over the last two years called 'Dice & Miniatures'. Dice & Miniatures is a miniatures based table top board game designed to be played by one or more players. The plan is that the game can be played without requiring a 'Games Master' to run it so it could even be played by a single player. The games focuses around 1:50 scale models with characters having a 20mm square base. The playing board ( I use the term loosely ) is comprised of sections which I will refer to as 'Playing Tiles'. Each Playing Tile is a room or area and has a 20mm square grid showing where players ( and enemies ) can move. When moving a group, player or party between world locations a larger area map is used which has a hexagonal grid.
I plan to release all Maps and Playing Tiles as free digital downloads so that players can print their own.
All models required to play this game will not only be sold as physical objects but will also be available to be purchased as Digital Downloads. This gives customers the option to 3D Print the models themselves which greatly reduces the costs of getting into this genre of gaming.
The game is planed to be released as an A4 Hardback Rule Book with a planed price of £15 and then subsequent Quests which will be released as paper backs. This allows customers the option of which quests they wish to invest in and also allows the option of just buying the Rule Book and making their own quests.
Why Develop This Now? With 3D Resin Printing becoming more available for the public (myself included) and the quality of such prints reaching such high standards it felt like to doors to this industry were being thrown wide open. I started out writing table top when I was in high school originally inspired by such publications as 'Dragon Magazine' (it really was a long time ago). I then moved into video games and became a 3D artist. Making this game and the models required for it feels like a coming together of all my skills on the once place. I feel that the time is right for this industry to start diversifying once more and that 3D printing is going to allow that to happen in a way we have never seen before.
29 November 2024
Pre-Order
With the rule book approaching it's final stages I am offering people the opportunity to pre-order a signed, limited edition version. This first edition would be a limited print run which I would be privately printing with ISBN number etc. It will be an A4 Hardback with a colour cover and black & white (grey scale) internal pages. The price will most likely be very different to the production print run. It could be cheaper or more expensive depending on the publishing deal that we attain for the production run and the distributer. So contact me if you are interested in pre-ordering and how many copies you would want. This number will determine how many copies will be printed and will directly effect the price of each copy, so please only submit genuine requests.
