Blood on the Sands **NEW** Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears...

[fastolfrus]

Em-4 do custom dice, and also sell blanks. It could be worth contacting them about the possibility of having some done.

and Doug from em-4 is a LAF member, so he might be open to negotiated discount.

[Too Bo Coo]

Oh that's great!  Doug has great stuff, I was bummed that he doesnt carry the dice with the recessed faces.

[axabrax]

Not everyone has the beta rules. What do the dice sheets look like? How many die symbols and dice per side are we talking?

[Too Bo Coo]

It's all on the thread Mate.  And it's a great read!

[axabrax]

If someone sends me the dice sheet, I'll have some made by Chessex, and you can all ooh and ahh at the possibilities 

[Elbows]

I've had several custom chessex dice made...and while very tempting, at $3.75+ per dice, and needing around 20-24...that's far too much money.   

They do great work though, and I do believe a big group buy would be worthwhile from one of the companies who's willing to do custom dice. 

[Furt]

With all the rule writing being done, I rarely get to show anything I've been doing for my own ludus. 

I have taken some pics of some WIP shots of some of the dropped weapon markers and some "spiked" palus.

The dropped weapon counters are not necessary to play, but add a nice touch. The game's actual counters can be put down on the grid to show dropped weapons etc which become trip hazards as well.

There is no historic evidence of spiked palus or palus in general appearing in the arena, but it wouldn't be a far stretch to imagine such things. The campaign rules include some "Special Events" which make use of such fantasies, adding a little spice to the matches. The palus act like hitting the wall and the spiked palus do the same, with the added chance of impaling your poor sod on those spikes.

[Mason]

Nice work, mate.
Like the idea of the Palus*.
 

And loving those markers.
Top quality!
 




*I can see where this might lead....

[Malamute]

*I can see where this might lead....

No idea what you are talking about.

Great stuff.

We have just completed our first nights campaign session. We all created a Ludus from scratch, went though all the phases up to and including the first match. Wages were placed and surprisingly James won his first fight earning him wealthy and me too for betting on him. Five more fights to go before the recuperation, training etc phases.

So far the campaign rules seem to be working fine.

Perhaps we need to create a Ludus sheet to record details of our ludus with wealth, influence, etc.

[OSHIROmodels]

Yeah, I won 

cheers

James

[Watts]

Great weapon markers, Furt. I am working on the exact same idea myself.

[Malamute]

Yeah, I won  

cheers

James

Yep, amazing isn't it...

But you did get poisoned though, very unsportsmanlike behaviour by Medicus Mortem...

[H.M.Stanley]

Who does spare helmets, weapons etc for markers? Nice idea by the way

[Furt]

We have just completed our first nights campaign session. We all created a Ludus from scratch, went though all the phases up to and including the first match. Wages were placed and surprisingly James won his first fight earning him wealthy and me too for betting on him. Five more fights to go before the recuperation, training etc phases.

So far the campaign rules seem to be working fine.

Great to see the first campaign playtest being kicked off guys! Congrats James on your victory - I have heard about your brute with Strength 6!! 

Why didn't you try and poison the big one Mark?!?!? 

Who does spare helmets, weapons etc for markers? Nice idea by the way

My shields and swords were from a defunct company unfortunately. I made my sica by bending a gladius (bloody genius I know).

I have quite a few Foundry spare bits and pieces. The trident was my last one although.

I got my helmets locally, but they were from http://maxmini.eu/gladiator%20-helmets-bits?search=gladiator

The helms would serve well as conversion bits too on Foundry or Crusader glads. But for now I only need them for fallen helmet markers. 

[Malamute]

Why didn't you try and poison the big one Mark?!?!? 

He was feeling charitable, it backfired on him though