Pimping

Around a year ago I saw a YouTube vid from The Dice Tower talking about how to upgrade games. I’ve always loved the art and colour in board games, so the idea of upgrading boardgame parts has always appealed to me. So far I have pimped a few games….

Let’s Summon Demons

This was an easy upgrade. I sourced some cheap skull tokens from Etsy, to replace the cardboard soul tokens. It’s improved the game no end by making the tokens easier to see and handle.

Wingspan

The Wingspan pimping process however has got a little out of hand…

It started out again with The Dice Tower again recommending upgraded eggs. I’d seen the speckled ones from Boardgame Extras, but they were a little… boring. Which is when I finally found a supplier, again on Etsy, but based in the US. They cost a small fortune in taxes and carriage, however the resin based eggs are amazing. I followed that with wooden food tokens from BGE, again expensive but great, a first player marker, and finally some more eggs from a UK Etsy supplier. The second lot of eggs were a little disappointing, however I was their first order apparently, so I’ll let them off!

Now the eggs I find fascinating as I’ve recently got into experimenting with resin dice making, and have a couple of egg moulds that I’d like to start experimenting on. There is a gulf of difference between the US and UK eggs, but it’s given me ideas on what works and what doesn’t.

So the only things left to upgrade are the storage box things (nests?), bird tower (meh), and the nectar tokens – BGE do wooden pink nectar, or a mixture of flower tokens, that look awesome.

Deluxe Upgrades

The above have all been 3rd party upgrades, however many games have deluxe editions (probably as a result of Kickstarter (another vice of mine)). At the expo I invested in some metal tokens for Flamecraft that look pretty awesome.

With Kickstarter I have been prone to deluxe editions where affordable, such as Canvas, but that’s for another post. 😉