I got to play Lords of Winterdeep last week – it’s a rather good worker placement board game set in the Forgotten Realms. The hook is that you are one of the Lord of Shadows, and that you need to gather parties of Adventurers to carry out your quests. Said adventurers are represented by wood cubes: white cubes are clerics, purple cubes wizards (which I, of course, insisted on calling magic-users as any right-thinking person would), black cubes rogues (or, rather, thieves), and orange cubes are fighters (short for fighting-men, I presume).

But that’s not why I post; you see, an enterprising soul has come up with some super meeples to replace the bland cubes. You can see them here:

http://boardgamegeek.com/image/1331792/lords-of-waterdeep

and there’s more on them here:

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/807557/custom-meeples-updated

I’m not going to be able to resist getting a set, and plan to use them as pieces on the floor plans in my D&D games. Up until now I’ve been using scavenged bits from various Lego games as pieces, but meeples would be even better, and I thought some of you guys might feel the same way.

On a side note, I think it’s interesting that the game uses the four ‘core’ classes – it will be interesting to see if they add more classes to hire in expansions (personally, I hope not, as these four cover all the important archetypes, IMO).

And on another side note, I’ve found that using my, rather abstracted, Lego  pieces on floor plans provides a good balance between the helpfulness of floors plans without them impacting too much on the ‘theatre of the mind’ aspects of the game. (Be helpfulness, I simply mean that some players find it easier to visualise what is going on when they have a visual/spatial representation of what is going on, rather than just a verbal description.) This is the main reason those meeples interest me so much, as they are a step more abstract than the Lego pieces, but a bit more fun, and made of wood rather than plastic.

Quote from: Glazer;590264But that's not why I post; you see, an enterprising soul has come up with some super meeples to replace the bland cubes. You can see them here:

http://boardgamegeek.com/image/1331792/lords-of-waterdeep

and there's more on them here:

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/807557/custom-meeples-updated

Those are great!