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Post by tdenmark on May 18, 2023 3:18:15 GMT -6
What are some RPGs (real or imaginary) that you would like to see published in OD&D format: 3 digest-sized, stapled booklets in a box? Warriors of the Red Planet. Coming in a box soon.    The plan is to have 3 booklets: Player Guide Referee Guide Adventure Module And a Character sheet pad Maybe a golf pencil, probably not dice it is surprisingly cost prohibitive to include dice. Also looking at ways to add a mini referee screen, or at least ref sheets. |
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Post by doublejig2 on May 18, 2023 3:24:19 GMT -6
There's something important and good about using a cigar box in this way, I think. Perhaps after smoking the cigars. |
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Post by Finarvyn on May 18, 2023 4:36:48 GMT -6
I would love to have a box for all of my WotRP stuff. Way cool! |
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Post by Falconer on May 18, 2023 6:58:17 GMT -6
Love it!!
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Post by chicagowiz on May 18, 2023 7:06:23 GMT -6
tdenmark, where did you get the box from? I'm looking for something similar for my Classic Traveller books, but having a hard time finding what I'm looking for.
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Post by thegreyelf on May 18, 2023 7:42:23 GMT -6
Finding a place from which to source boxes is a challenge. I've considered doing old-school-style boxes for my Night Shift and Wasted Lands games, but man, just finding someone that can print the right boxes in the right size at the right price (without going to China) is rough.
It IS, however, possible to source dice cheaply as long as you don't demand custom dice. You can get 26 full sets of dice on Amazon for 25 bucks or so, with Prime shipping. They're generic, but they are full sets of standard acrylic dice.
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Post by geoffrey on May 18, 2023 8:38:12 GMT -6
I had forgotten that the Troll Lords sell a digest-sized boxed set for Castles & Crusades: www.trolllord.com/tlgstore/#!/Castles-&-Crusades-Classic-White-Box-Set/p/170725552/category=11639170 Four races and four classes that go up to 10th level.  I just wonder about the font size... |
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Post by Finarvyn on May 18, 2023 11:21:34 GMT -6
I had forgotten that the Troll Lords sell a digest-sized boxed set for Castles & Crusades: www.trolllord.com/tlgstore/#!/Castles-&-Crusades-Classic-White-Box-Set/p/170725552/category=11639170 Four races and four classes that go up to 10th level. I just wonder about the font size... I have one of the C&C "Spartan 300" boxes from back in the day, and also one of the C&C Classic boxed sets. I also have terrible vision. I don't remember having much trouble with the C&C sets, but it's been a while since I looked at them. I will try to look again and report back. |
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Post by thegreyelf on May 18, 2023 11:55:33 GMT -6
I had forgotten that the Troll Lords sell a digest-sized boxed set for Castles & Crusades: www.trolllord.com/tlgstore/#!/Castles-&-Crusades-Classic-White-Box-Set/p/170725552/category=11639170 Four races and four classes that go up to 10th level. I just wonder about the font size... I actually did the compilation work, streamlining, and whatnot on those boxed sets. It was actually my brainchild to do them. The font size is easy to read. It's not huge, but it's not overly small. I would guess they probably used about 10 pt. font in them. |
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Post by geoffrey on May 18, 2023 13:31:15 GMT -6
I had forgotten that the Troll Lords sell a digest-sized boxed set for Castles & Crusades: www.trolllord.com/tlgstore/#!/Castles-&-Crusades-Classic-White-Box-Set/p/170725552/category=11639170 Four races and four classes that go up to 10th level. I just wonder about the font size... I actually did the compilation work, streamlining, and whatnot on those boxed sets. It was actually my brainchild to do them. The font size is easy to read. It's not huge, but it's not overly small. I would guess they probably used about 10 pt. font in them. Awesome! I didn't know that you did all that work. Now I'm seriously tempted to buy a set.  |
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Post by tdenmark on May 18, 2023 13:36:22 GMT -6
Finding a place from which to source boxes is a challenge. I've considered doing old-school-style boxes for my Night Shift and Wasted Lands games, but man, just finding someone that can print the right boxes in the right size at the right price (without going to China) is rough. It IS, however, possible to source dice cheaply as long as you don't demand custom dice. You can get 26 full sets of dice on Amazon for 25 bucks or so, with Prime shipping. They're generic, but they are full sets of standard acrylic dice. The Gamecrafter offers 6"x9" boxes print-on-demand that are virtually identical to the original ODD box, and the print quality is excellent! www.thegamecrafter.com/make/products/MediumStoutBoxTopAndSideUnfortunately their POD books are slightly smaller than digest. I think it is so they can offer full bleed interiors. |
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Post by thegreyelf on May 18, 2023 13:38:03 GMT -6
Awesome! I didn't know that you did all that work. Now I'm seriously tempted to buy a set. Thank you! That means a lot. Yeah, I had to hound Steve for awhile to get him to agree to it. He didn't believe at the time that digest old-school-style boxed sets would sell. Then we kind of mucked up the Kickstarter for them by combining it with another Kickstarter, which was confusing for a lot of folks (and weirdly a lot of folks apparently never knew it was going on). So it should've done better than it did. I'm not sure if there will be another printing after this one as a result. We also did a woodgrain edition that was Kickstarter only and had two extra books (Adventurer's Backpack with extra character classes, and Of Gods and Monsters of Aihrde with campaign setting info). Those are long sold out. |
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Post by tdenmark on May 18, 2023 13:38:06 GMT -6
tdenmark, where did you get the box from? I'm looking for something similar for my Classic Traveller books, but having a hard time finding what I'm looking for. I had a short print run done in China through boardgamemakers.com of blank boxes with the woodgrain pattern, then I print stickers at home for the labels. Now use TheGamecrafter.com |
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Post by thegreyelf on May 18, 2023 13:41:31 GMT -6
Finding a place from which to source boxes is a challenge. I've considered doing old-school-style boxes for my Night Shift and Wasted Lands games, but man, just finding someone that can print the right boxes in the right size at the right price (without going to China) is rough. It IS, however, possible to source dice cheaply as long as you don't demand custom dice. You can get 26 full sets of dice on Amazon for 25 bucks or so, with Prime shipping. They're generic, but they are full sets of standard acrylic dice. The Gamecrafter offers 6"x9" boxes print-on-demand that are virtually identical to the original ODD box, and the print quality is excellent! www.thegamecrafter.com/make/products/MediumStoutBoxTopAndSideUnfortunately their POD books are slightly smaller than digest. I think it is so they can offer full bleed interiors. Nice! Thanks for the heads' up! I've looked at the Game Crafters and somehow was never able to find those. |
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Post by tdenmark on May 18, 2023 16:50:08 GMT -6
Nice! Thanks for the heads' up! I've looked at the Game Crafters and somehow was never able to find those. It is a fairly recent addition to their product offerings. |
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Post by rhialto on May 19, 2023 3:28:07 GMT -6
WotRP is probably my favorite NOW game, so looking forward to this release.
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Post by tdenmark on May 19, 2023 11:47:07 GMT -6
Empty cigar boxes make excellent game storage. The larger ones can even hold digest sized rulebooks with enough leftover room to fit my fingers. Cost: $5 each from the local tobacco store. These are much sturdier than the old cardboard types. Our local cigar shop has stacks and stacks of these you can buy for a buck a piece, or talk them into an even better deal when you buy a stack of them. They are all kinds of useful. I use them as pochades. Thanks! I'm working on remastering it with better layout, clearing up some ambiguities, adding some missing info (there is always missing info in an OSR game, right? Impossible to have everything), and more art. Also dividing it into a Player's Guide and a Referee's Guide for the box set. To coincide with the release of the Princess of the Red Planet adventure. |
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Post by thegreyelf on May 19, 2023 12:04:08 GMT -6
Thanks! I'm working on remastering it with better layout, clearing up some ambiguities, adding some missing info (there is always missing info in an OSR game, right? Impossible to have everything), and more art. Also dividing it into a Player's Guide and a Referee's Guide for the box set. To coincide with the release of the Princess of the Red Planet adventure. Please keep us posted! This looks AWESOME. |
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Post by chicagowiz on May 19, 2023 13:21:10 GMT -6
Nice! Thanks for the heads' up! I've looked at the Game Crafters and somehow was never able to find those. It is a fairly recent addition to their product offerings. Do you have one of their 9x6.13 boxes? I ask because they list the interior dimensions as 143mm (5.63) x 218mm (8.59) - is that accurate to what you have? I ask because my legit CT1977 Book 3 is 5.75/146mm right on the nose... and I would hate to buy this box and be that much off and bend the book. |
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Post by tdenmark on May 19, 2023 16:42:23 GMT -6
Do you have one of their 9x6.13 boxes? I ask because they list the interior dimensions as 143mm (5.63) x 218mm (8.59) - is that accurate to what you have? I ask because my legit CT1977 Book 3 is 5.75/146mm right on the nose... and I would hate to buy this box and be that much off and bend the book. Yes, I've ordered some. You can see the original D&D books fit in it, a little snug but there is room on the top and bottom to slide your fingers in to pull the booklets out. You can see in the next picture it is ever so slightly narrower and shorter than the white box, but it is about 1/2 taller which allows for more stuff.    btw. this is for a prototype of my retroclone I may one day publish. It is painfully accurate to the original LBB plus a little bit of GH, but smoothed out, better edited, and organized. |
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Post by tdenmark on May 19, 2023 16:44:10 GMT -6
I do not think you'll find POD boxes that are a closer match and this quality. But, I keep looking.
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Post by chicagowiz on May 19, 2023 17:35:45 GMT -6
I do not think you'll find POD boxes that are a closer match and this quality. But, I keep looking. Thank you very much for taking those pics and giving me the idea to compare my original CT77 LBB to the OD&D LBBs. As you can see from the picture, the CT77LBB is slightly larger by a few mm.  Which means that if your LBB is fitting snugly into the box, then my CT77 is probably going to be too big. As are my reprints of Book 1,2 from Lulu, as they're A5 digest size (148mm width as compared to 143 width of the interior of the box). Well..  . Those boxes were just about perfect, but not to be, I guess. I'll keep looking for either a low cost CT box on Ebay or something that fits from a vendor. |
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Post by tdenmark on May 19, 2023 18:14:57 GMT -6
I do not think you'll find POD boxes that are a closer match and this quality. But, I keep looking. Thank you very much for taking those pics and giving me the idea to compare my original CT77 LBB to the OD&D LBBs. As you can see from the picture, the CT77LBB is slightly larger by a few mm. Which means that if your LBB is fitting snugly into the box, then my CT77 is probably going to be too big. As are my reprints of Book 1,2 from Lulu, as they're A5 digest size (148mm width as compared to 143 width of the interior of the box). Well.. . Those boxes were just about perfect, but not to be, I guess. I'll keep looking for either a low cost CT box on Ebay or something that fits from a vendor. SuperiorPOD.com has some boxes too. |
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Post by chicagowiz on May 19, 2023 19:47:23 GMT -6
SuperiorPOD.com has some boxes too. Thanks, I'll give them a look. What has been your experience with them? |
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Post by ochrejelly on May 19, 2023 22:52:00 GMT -6
Finding a place from which to source boxes is a challenge. I've considered doing old-school-style boxes for my Night Shift and Wasted Lands games, but man, just finding someone that can print the right boxes in the right size at the right price (without going to China) is rough. It IS, however, possible to source dice cheaply as long as you don't demand custom dice. You can get 26 full sets of dice on Amazon for 25 bucks or so, with Prime shipping. They're generic, but they are full sets of standard acrylic dice. The Gamecrafter offers 6"x9" boxes print-on-demand that are virtually identical to the original ODD box, and the print quality is excellent! www.thegamecrafter.com/make/products/MediumStoutBoxTopAndSideUnfortunately their POD books are slightly smaller than digest. I think it is so they can offer full bleed interiors. Thank you for solving my box problem! |
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Post by rhialto on May 20, 2023 4:36:22 GMT -6
Thank you very much for taking those pics and giving me the idea to compare my original CT77 LBB to the OD&D LBBs. As you can see from the picture, the CT77LBB is slightly larger by a few mm. Which means that if your LBB is fitting snugly into the box, then my CT77 is probably going to be too big. As are my reprints of Book 1,2 from Lulu, as they're A5 digest size (148mm width as compared to 143 width of the interior of the box). Well.. . Those boxes were just about perfect, but not to be, I guess. I'll keep looking for either a low cost CT box on Ebay or something that fits from a vendor. SuperiorPOD.com has some boxes too. I thought I posted this elsewhere here, but the Board Games Maker site here allows you to specify, to the mm, the outer and inner dimensions of the box. I've never tried them though. |
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Post by rhialto on May 20, 2023 4:38:17 GMT -6
btw. this is for a prototype of my retroclone I may one day publish. It is painfully accurate to the original LBB plus a little bit of GH, but smoothed out, better edited, and organized. That sounds intriguing...I look forward to hearing more. |
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. Those boxes were just about perfect, but not to be, I guess. I'll keep looking for either a low cost CT box on Ebay or something that fits from a vendor.