Hnefatafl (the Viking Game) is sold at the Jorvik Viking Centre in York. It's a very nice edition of the game, with realistic-looking "ivory/bone" playing pieces and a roll-up cloth board.
That sounds like it might be the same edition they sell on Amazon for £25. If it is, that's quite a lovely edition, and certainly what I would want to play with rather than using cardboard tokens on a paper map.
Dragon magazine was awesome, spent many an hour pouring through them instead of paying attention to whatever the teacher was trying to muck up my mind with. Honestly I probably got more real life use out of whatever I learned in it than highschool for the most part
I had this for years and never played any of them. I think I got it in a trade or something and sold it on a couple of years back. The best Dragon game was Monsters of the Midway which was a fantasy football game with more of a full army going to the field than just a small team. Counters, and if they go on a data track or are stacked with a counter to indicate a status, they are markers.
I'm surprised you never gave Search for the Emperor's Treasure a go. Thought that might of been something you would try. I tend to end up referring to cardboard pieces as "tokens" or "counters" more often than not, for convenience. Even in the rules for these six games, the terms aren't used consistently. While Food Fight uses the counter/marker approach, Emperor's Treasure uses "chits," and in King's Table the round playing pieces are called "markers."
@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Chits are normally numbered counters used to track wounds or other degradable states. It probably matters more if you have a solid hex wargaming background where the terms are more fixed. TSR did own the remnants of SPI at that point in time and continued to publish wargames and revisions of older games. Most of the counters were pretty dreadful with garish colors and side nubs from die cutting. This set was a victim of me just having way too much stuff that I would rather work on. I sold Kings and Things at the same time actually. And Cosmic Encounter because I would never have a large enough group to make that game work well again. I think that was the same time I sold Agricola and lots of euros like that too.
I tell you what I don't miss - punch out cards. Agricola and Cosmic Encounters are two games I've never actually played. They just never appealed to me at all.
I'm not sure yet. I need to figure out if any of them are interesting enough to show on the channel. I think maybe the Tom Wham ones (Emperor's Treasure and File 13) might be worth it.
@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Suggestion : Since the components for the games are basically just card squares it might be cool to make up some custom miniatures and markers to make the games a bit more visually interesting for a video. Greenstuff Gav is doing a series on White Dwarf games where he does that :)
I tend to like presenting games with their original components. It's very rare for me to "pimp" a game, beyond painting the miniatures. Obviously tabletop miniatures games are an exception there.
