Re: Personal Expanded piecepack

["Iain Cheyne" <news@...>]

mschoessow wrote:
 
> So the question is, what additional components to include. Here are
> some possibilities.
> 
> * Additional coins in two suits. This allows the playing of MANY
> more abstracts that require 8-12 identical pieces per player.

These are a must. A lack of pieces cripples the piecepack for playing 
more standard games. If you had enough and they were stackable, you 
could play the towers games at www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/towers.htm.
 
> * Paper money. Probably don't need as much, or as many denominations
> as, Monopoly.
> 
> * 2-4 standard dice, plus perhaps a D4, D8, D10, and D12.

Not sure about this. There are already four dice included. Mixing the 
dice allows you to calculate a lot of probabilities.

> Any other ideas, comments, or suggestions on the idea, or the best
> components to add, are welcome. BUT, please understand my purpose
> here; I'm not suggesting a new expanded official piecepack design is
> required. Rather  I'm trying to think of what would make an even
> better portable kit for game design and the playing of wide range of
> games, for those willing to put in the time and trouble.

 * Another tile, so that you could use 25 tiles to create a
10x10 
board.
 
 * A foldable hex grid map or larger foldable square grid e.g.
13x13 
or 19x19 for Go.

 * Standard 52 card deck.

I like the piecepackplus idea, but I don't know how much support 
there is for it.

-- 
Iain