Re: [piecepack] Pawn upgrades: pawnplus

[Thorn <edt@...>]

david cousins wrote:
> 
> Reading Mark's last post reminded me that I was thinking how one would
> approach upgrading the pawns in the pp spec. I thought a bit and came up
> with the following pawn definition. Note this is totally speculative, I
> don't know how much these dodahs would cost.
> 
> There are four pawns, one for each color suit.
> A pawn is a 6 sided prism. It has a flat top and bottom with an
> appropriate marking  so it may be inverted.. It has a directional
> marking on both the top and bottom for directionality.
> Each of the six sides are marked with a symbol that coresponds to the
> six sides of the same suit die.
> 
<snip>

> Just some thoughts. Maybe someone can put together a pawnplus spec.
> Dave

Why not put a 'facing' mark on each of the faces of each die?  Then a
set of dice would serve as pawns.  A second set of 'dice' is handier
than pawns that can be rolled.