by Wallack
Hi!I wanted to post this but I was waiting to receive some more stuff but now I can say that I have everything I wanted to customize (for now).
It started with the Lieutenants. I didn't like any of the minis from the base set (talking about lieutenants), only Eliza Farrow, so that's the only one I bought. I also bought Valyndra when I bought LotW (the miniature is probably the best in the game) and all the lieutenants from LoR (Serena, Raythen, Ariad and Queen Ariad). For the base game I just bought proxies from Reaper.
But I had a problem then, I wanted to have all the plot decks from the base game. It was impossible to buy only the decks so I started creating a .PS template to recreate them. If the time I used to create the templates and the decks were used to work I could have bought the lieutenants honestly, took me three days to have the template in a good quality and to reproduce all the decks.
This is a pic of the custom Alric Farrow from reaper (the one everyone buys) and the plot deck for him. If you compare it with the original decks I have you can see differences in colors but the result is overall pretty nice:
All my miniatures use square bases, quick example:
The next thing I worked on was a custom hero and a custom class, but never went ahead to print it and focused in a different thing, my Hybrid Classes.
It took me a lot of time to create the templates. I know there are already templates for classes but none of them had the quality I needed to print them professionally, so I had to scan and edit everything in order to create a proper template, you can see it here:
In my hybrid classes there are at least two familiars that use ranged attack and the print was out of the frame:
It works okay but is a pity. Anyways, knowing that I will be ordering a new errata set with only the minor fixes I needed.
Another closeup:
I also created some items but never posted them because just wanted to try how they will print. The back has a different tone than the originals but is still ok. I also have some extra shop items so I can put them together if I don't want anyone to notice the different color on the back.
Then I wrote some "Neutral" Classes which are more like neutral skill cards that can be acquired by anyone at any point paying the XP amount they cost. This was done to increase the amount of options each player has. Also with this order, the peril cards from Ruin of Darkness arrived.
After that I wanted to play cooperative games but all the rules that RAOV has can be sometimes a little bit complicated so I created Incidents for RAOV, a small variant that eliminates OL and Plot decks and uses a new deck, called Incident, to automate everything and make it more coop.
This incident cards are like OL cards but instead of played from a secret hand they are drawn from a deck.
I used the same template as the plot cards:
Close up:
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This is all I made for Descent and printed professionally to have a great look on the table.
My next steps is to focus on more neutral class cards and balance some of them (some of them are really expensive) and add more to have a higher variety of options during the game. Also to fix the familiars and print them again to have the attack dice completely on the card.
Also want to focus on playtesting Incidents and adding a couple of expansions to it. But I will be on holidays for one week so until I come back I can't playtest anything, and I'm dying to!!
Hope you liked it!