TrainGamer
High Hand
Howdy!
The Apache Board Gamers Poker Chip Interest Thread drew me in. I was looking to upgrade from a set of, do I dare say, dice chips when Apache launched the thread. I was specifically looking for a set with 20s rather than 25s.
I play a variety of board games, many involve some kind of money. Most of my favorites include trains to some degree. Some of my games have custom metal coins as they only need two or three denominations. Others, which I have started into more recently, require more denominations. One series, 18xx, requires banks of several thousand dollars, or other units of currency, with the flexibility to make transactions from 1 to a few hundred. When I started playing 18xx games I decided I needed at least one set of poker chips. Since I don't play poker, almost anyone can read me like a book, I wanted my chips to look different than poker or casino chips. Also, since I have games that use US dollars, Pounds Sterling, Swiss Francs, Austrian Guilders, and German Marks, I wanted the denominations to exclude any currency designation.
The Apache chip set for board gamers was going a different direction than I wanted regarding the edge markings, and I decided if I was going to spend that much money on poker chips, they would be pretty much what I wanted. So I opted for a small step up from the dice chips with some Claysmith The Mint chips. Since this series does not include 20s, I decided to have Gear Labels print me some $20 labels to go on the gray 50 cent chips of the series.
One of my friends has a set of Nile Club ceramics. I like the concept of ceramics, but the Nile Clubs take some getting used to as the size of the edge spots obscure my reading of the chips' base color. Also, it has 25s, not 20s. So I am considering custom ceramics. I have some ideas, and I will likely post about one or more of them in the future.
Using poker chips with board games introduces the question of how does one transport the chips and the games. This is a surprisingly good question as the boxes for most of the games I would play using poker chips have a different "foot print" than poker chip cases. By "foot print" I mean the rectangular area of the box when set flat on the table. So for a box that is 9 inches by 12 inches by 3 inches, the "foot print" is 9 inches by 12 inches. Also, most of the inexpensive chip cases have hard, non-flat surfaces which may dent a cardboard game box. So having made some game boxes, I am working on a custom chip box that will function as a chip tray when open. My current design will have an approximate "foot print" of 9 inches by 6 inches. If it turns out well, I will post about it including photos and plans.
For now I'm pretty much lurking and trying to learn what I can from y'all.
The Apache Board Gamers Poker Chip Interest Thread drew me in. I was looking to upgrade from a set of, do I dare say, dice chips when Apache launched the thread. I was specifically looking for a set with 20s rather than 25s.
I play a variety of board games, many involve some kind of money. Most of my favorites include trains to some degree. Some of my games have custom metal coins as they only need two or three denominations. Others, which I have started into more recently, require more denominations. One series, 18xx, requires banks of several thousand dollars, or other units of currency, with the flexibility to make transactions from 1 to a few hundred. When I started playing 18xx games I decided I needed at least one set of poker chips. Since I don't play poker, almost anyone can read me like a book, I wanted my chips to look different than poker or casino chips. Also, since I have games that use US dollars, Pounds Sterling, Swiss Francs, Austrian Guilders, and German Marks, I wanted the denominations to exclude any currency designation.
The Apache chip set for board gamers was going a different direction than I wanted regarding the edge markings, and I decided if I was going to spend that much money on poker chips, they would be pretty much what I wanted. So I opted for a small step up from the dice chips with some Claysmith The Mint chips. Since this series does not include 20s, I decided to have Gear Labels print me some $20 labels to go on the gray 50 cent chips of the series.
One of my friends has a set of Nile Club ceramics. I like the concept of ceramics, but the Nile Clubs take some getting used to as the size of the edge spots obscure my reading of the chips' base color. Also, it has 25s, not 20s. So I am considering custom ceramics. I have some ideas, and I will likely post about one or more of them in the future.
Using poker chips with board games introduces the question of how does one transport the chips and the games. This is a surprisingly good question as the boxes for most of the games I would play using poker chips have a different "foot print" than poker chip cases. By "foot print" I mean the rectangular area of the box when set flat on the table. So for a box that is 9 inches by 12 inches by 3 inches, the "foot print" is 9 inches by 12 inches. Also, most of the inexpensive chip cases have hard, non-flat surfaces which may dent a cardboard game box. So having made some game boxes, I am working on a custom chip box that will function as a chip tray when open. My current design will have an approximate "foot print" of 9 inches by 6 inches. If it turns out well, I will post about it including photos and plans.
For now I'm pretty much lurking and trying to learn what I can from y'all.
