Courtesy of RPG Blog, I just found out about the Star Wars Deckplans Alliance — it’s a work in progress, but there are lots of great sci-fi deck plans up there already. They work from a variety of sources, they’re very attentive to detail and — naturally — they’re gamers.
Star Wars Deck Plans
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Nice to see some non-D&D stuff.
Great site for those boarding actions
I try to maintain a good mix of genres with my miniposts — do you feel like there are too many D&D/fantasy-related ones?
Considering the prevalance of D&D and fantasy among most gamers, I find your mix of genres to be pretty good. I personally will probably take a look at this to perhaps improve my ability to design realistic interiors.
Thinking about the Lego Millenium Falcon renews my deep desire to own the Lego Death Star and Star Destroyer — those puppies are awesome. 🙂
That’s pretty sweet, Frank. I wonder if the process he went through is anything like the process Lego’s official designers go through — what do you think?
In some ways his process was probably like the LEGO designers process, in other ways, probably very different, due to different aims. The LEGO designers need to translate an idea into something that has visual appeal, construction appeal, constrained by business realities (costs, inventory control and production scheduling for large variety of different pieces, etc).
The fan is striving for the best embodiment of their idea, constrained primarily by pieces that exist, difficulty of acquiring certain rare pieces, overall budget, and possibly just finding “the right piece” (I’m thinking of myself with my 600,000 LEGO pieces filling a room, and how I could easily overlook the “perfect piece” because I have no idea I even have it).
Fan designs also tend to be on a scale that dwarfs LEGO official sets. If you take a fan design of a certain size, chances are it has at least twice as many pieces as a comparably sized LEGO set.
Frank
Neat! I had no idea how that worked — and 600,000 Legos? Wow. 🙂
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It’s a nifty site, Frank, and it looks like a lot of fun to work on. 🙂