I was at a FLGS in Tulsa last month, doing my usual layering and drybrushing routine on a goblin, when this kid leans over and says 'why are you painting the shadows first?' and honestly I froze because I had no answer beyond 'that's how I learned' from some 2014 YouTube tutorial. Turns out, building up from midtones to highlights and leaving the base coat as the dark value means way less touching up, and my last 40 minis that I'd been blaming on cheap plastic were actually just my backwards process. Anyone else run into a basic technique flip that made you rework your whole paint station approach?
Bought a 99 cent frame at the thrift store in Dayton, ripped out the glass, glued felt to the backing. My dice stopped bouncing across the table during a 4 hour session. Anyone else repurpose random junk into game gear?
Last month at a game store in Dayton I saw a plastic photo frame with a deep lip, like the kind for holding 8x10s, marked at $1.25. I grabbed two, popped out the glass, and flipped the frame over to use as a dice tray. The lip keeps dice from flying off and it stacks flat in my bag. My group used them for three sessions so far and nobody's lost a crit roll under the couch. Next I'm gonna try cutting a felt sheet to fit the inside with spray adhesive. Anybody else repurposed cheap frames or similar stuff for their table?
Last month my buddy Sam in Portland showed me his trick of coloring over stubborn board game tokens with a dry erase marker to lift the old ink, and after three years of buying replacement erasers that never worked, that one weird tip from his gaming mat finally convinced me to just use a cheap whiteboard marker on my battered Gloomhaven health dials, what other weird writing tool fixes have you guys found for worn out components?