Picked this up the other day for three-quid
I think, the fact that this is the fifth (?) game from charity shops in the last
four or five weeks is a sign that the post-Christmas clear-out is now in full
flow!
The board has 16 fixed sections of dungeon
and then there are a number of others that get slid through the gaps, building
the dungeon and constantly changing the pathways, while the icons on 12 of the
moveable sections and all the fixed-elements affect the players as the
battle-through.
The all-important bit as far as Small Scale
World is concerned - the figures! Basically four practisers of magic, be they;
wizards, warlocks, witches, necromancers or mages! From the left; there's a
Gandalf-a-like, an eleven Queen, a Dwarven mage and a hagged witch!
Comparison shot with one of the Bilbo's Graham
Apperley donated to the Blog a couple of years ago (far left), and a few other
figures that were kicking around, close-to-hand; two chinatroops and two
game-playing pieces - Wizard's clone
trooper from Star Wars and TSR's larger Buck Roger's Battle for the
25th Century counter.
Each month, at the start of the month (or
when I first need to scan something!) I reset the title-bar on the scanner to
that month and zero, thus; Feb18Toys-001, and as the month progresses all sorts
of stuff is scanned-in, mostly for the archive, but as you know, some stuff is
cropped and included in posts.
Now the other day; scanning the instruction
sheet in (for the archive) of this game, my scanner - struggling to provide a
preview of a small black&white illustration on a high-resolution colour
setting -invented some colour! And not just any colour, but the sort of
gradated, neon-rainbow colours designed by the gods to appeal to an Aspergic
mind!
So I took a screen-capcha, blew it up, took
another and here it is! Pretty huh?! This existed, while not really existing,
only for a moment, ephemerally, in some non-existent, side-room of cyber space
. . . it makes you think . . . well; it makes me think!
What it looks like when it's not indulging
in a spot of psychedelic self-weirding!
It also helps explain one of the main game
mechanisms, not that I ever really dwell on them, it's about the figures!
Speaking of figures, this is also Ravensburger, it's actually been in
Picasa for a while, waiting for a suitable post, as I don't try to subject the
Blog's readers to ephemeral juvenilia for the hell of it, or to deliberately
annoy them, but it's all got a place in the whole; it's all 'grist to the
mill'!
See - It's all figural! They're snails!
Flats! From Ravensburger! There's
another wood flat in the queue . . . a cow . . . fresh-in . . . coming-soon!
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