Ross Esmond
ross-esmond.bsky.social
Ross Esmond
@ross-esmond.bsky.social
Good Programmer, wannabe Board Game Designer, Math... Enthusiast, and half decent Technical Writer.
You can see this in Pandemic, Dune Imperium, and Spirit Island. Every game establishes some game state in the rule book, but I'm referring to those instances where the state is invented on the fly by redefining existing tokens and creating a new space to place them.
July 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🎲✂️ I tried every method for producing custom dice that I could think of—hand drawn stickers, printer stickers, a label maker, iron on paper—but the best method by far has been spray painting with a silicone stencil. It was faster and produced much better results. I'll have to post my full process.
June 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Vale of Eternity has a mechanic which I hope catches on: Inconvenient Denominations.

Coins of different sizes cannot be freely converted, and you can always overpay but you never get change back.

It increases the design space of an engine builder without the need for additional resources.
November 18, 2024 at 1:22 PM