Yes, it’s been a while. Yes, I have a lot of things I could and would like to write about.
For now, though, I’m short on time. I wanted to show this design, though, for the Dragon Tinker Metal Meeple that I’d like to get made in a Kickstarter project later this year. The “Dame”, “Fairy” and Top Hat” designs included for scale (the Top Hat gentleman is pretty standard meeple size, at 20mm tall or so, meaning this Dragon would be about 30mm tall, or 1 and 1/6″). The Dragon has a normal mechanized Dragon side, and an “aged” side, to give it a bit of gravitas. This also allows me to hint that it would be made of different metals, given that some parts don’t show the aging.
This is the last design I’ve had in mind for now, though I certainly can come up with others, and there are some Carcassonne expansion meeples that I haven’t had time to work with yet. They are less popular, though, and possibly less usable out of that game, so we’re sticking with more universal designs for the moment. Like the Mad Scientist…
The Tinkerer…
and the Sky Pirate and Rocketeer…
Now, I really would like to get the Tinker Steampunk-flavored Carcassonne tile variant designs done. They will take a bit more time, of course, and since I can’t really sell them, they will be a back burner “labor of love” sort of thing.
Then there’s the Pantheon Wars game, the Fudging Fates dice and this other game I’m designing, tentatively calling it Shattervale… there’s a lot to do.
It’s great to see a post from you! I occasionally play board games, but am not familiar with what you would do with meeples. Would they replace game board pieces players use to move around the board?
Hi Mama Druid! Good to see you again! 🙂 The meeples I’m designing are predominantly attached to Carcassonne, but yes, they could be used as player pawns in a *lot* of different board games. It’s been a lot of fun, getting them made.
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