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Star Wars Deck Plans

Wed. April 19, 2006 

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.

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11 Responses to “Star Wars Deck Plans”

  1. hellibrarian on April 19th, 2006 8:23 am

    Nice to see some non-D&D stuff.
    Great site for those boarding actions

  2. Martin on April 19th, 2006 3:32 pm

    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?

  3. Kestral on April 19th, 2006 11:46 pm

    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.

  4. Frank on April 20th, 2006 11:27 am

    Here’s an interesting site (courtesy of the Way Back Machine - not sure if the site has a new existence somewhere) for the Millenium Falcon.

    I’m looking for a site that still has pictures of Ben Fleskes’s awesome LEGO Millenium Falcon…

    Frank

  5. Martin on April 20th, 2006 3:42 pm

    Thinking about the Lego Millenium Falcon renews my deep desire to own the Lego Death Star and Star Destroyer — those puppies are awesome. :)

  6. Frank on May 2nd, 2006 3:11 pm

    Ben recently created a new web page for his LEGO creations, here’s his LEGO Millenium Falcon

    Frank

  7. Martin on May 2nd, 2006 3:45 pm

    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?

  8. Frank on May 3rd, 2006 1:19 pm

    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

  9. Martin on May 3rd, 2006 3:37 pm

    Neat! I had no idea how that worked — and 600,000 Legos? Wow. :)

  10. Frank V Bonura on May 26th, 2006 11:46 pm

    Thank you so much for reviewing my site.

    Long Live RPGs!!!

  11. Martin on May 28th, 2006 8:39 am

    It’s a nifty site, Frank, and it looks like a lot of fun to work on. :)