"Get Your Mind Out Of The Gutter ..." Topic

… and into the sewer!

Do you have a sewer system for gaming?

Apparently, my answer is yes.

I also have some much better "water" to go under the walls, but this was a quick pickup game for me and SWMBO (She won). And I have a couple of printed ones from Fat Dragon as well as a homedrawn set of modular 12"x12" cardboard sewer tiles.

Sewers are great.

I have a fixed board with a large open stream of toxic waste down the middle, but not a sewer system. I wish I was playing something that justified building a sewer *system*, because that is just cool.

Looks really great. I love the green slimy weathering on the tiles.

I don't use sewers very often although they are a marvelous place to stage various rpgs and stag parties.

I don't use the sewers as much as I'd like but when I do I lazily perch my dungeon tiles on a toxic coloured plastic green party table cover from the dollar store. It's not nearly as effective as yours here but it serves its purpose. But with a one year old in the house there is no shortage of atmospheric smells that adds it the terrible realism.

BTW what's the idea of the playing cards on the board? Very mysterious :)

Fighting monsters in the sewers is pure folly! Pun intended.

Wow. That looks awesome!

And it really takes me back to a few years ago, when my late brother and I were brainstorming on what sort of game could take place entirely below ground in man-made tunnels.

At first we thought Terminators, with the humans staying completely away from the Skynet flying machines. I even started buying 15mm "survivalists" from various manufacturers.

TMP link
TMP link

Then he came across some really nice tentacled figures that could pass for cephalopods, and so the scenario became a war against an alien race* that had taken over the surface of our planet but occasionally ventured underground to hunt. He was going to paint his in greens to suggest plant-like aliens that could not stay away from sunlight for long periods, and which weakened the longer they stayed below ground.

The sewer terrain was supposed to be modular like yours.

I hadn't thought about all that for years until now. Weird.

Dan
* I think he was partly inspired by the general premise of Falling Skies, though his aliens didn't look anything like those in the show.

what's the idea of the playing cards on the board? Very mysterious

Their purpose is mystery. :) Specifically – The east-west cards represent the alien egg caches (of different size/difficulty to destroy) to destroy (as well as there being a bonus to successfully carry out one sample). The north-south are various numbers of weenie one-die aliens (big numbers in clubs), tougher two-die aliens (smaller numbers in spades), and possibly an uber-monster (a king). There are also jokers in the distribution, which indicate … oh … we thought something was there.

The power being the challenge is setting up a couple of cycles of stacked deck shuffles, combines, cuts, and draws. You can actually implement some sophisticated types of distributions. The best part is the mathy-maths are done well beforehand and you only spend about two minutes shuffling and distributing the cards. Using two decks also adds to the complexity of the unknowns. Then it's just flip and go without tables, etc. during play.

When I get out my dirty brown water, I have some sepia distressed back cards that I like to use. You can use themed and contrasting/matching backs to add to the effect. Or you can just grab and go on green felt.

I recently watched a video on how to craft sewer tiles.

YouTube link