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Summary: Add link to Michael Schoessow's 2007 suggestion in the MailingList of combining a "travel" piecepack with a "standard" piecepack to form a game system
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< Way back in 2007 Michael Schoessow ["suggested the possibilities of combining a half-size "travel" piecepack with a "standard" piecepack as an interesting game system" https://www.ludism.org/piecepack/message/msg02800.html] in the MailingList.
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> Way back in 2007 Michael Schoessow [https://www.ludism.org/piecepack/message/msg02800.html suggested the possibilities of combining a half-size "travel" piecepack with a "standard" piecepack as an interesting game system] in the MailingList.
StackPack is short for "stacked piecepacks" and refers to the notion of a bigger piecepack and smaller piecepack sized such that the tiles of the smaller piecepack fit within a quarter of the larger tiles. For convenience lets refer to the larger piecepack as a "superpack" and its pieces as "supertiles", "supercoins", "superdice", and "superpawns" and the smaller piecepack as a "subpack" and its pieces as "subtiles", "subcoins", "subdice", and "subpawns". The StackPack has many nice features:
One could size the tiles such that the subtiles exactly fit within a quarter of a supertile. This would be ideal for "tile laying" games but would be hard to use the subtiles as gaming tokens on boards made from the supertiles. The alternative would be to make them such that the subtitles are strictly smaller than a quarter of the supertile which would be ideal for using the subtiles as gaming tokens (but not as pretty for "tile laying" games). Here are some possible sizing suggestions (note the IBG/Mesomorph/BluePanther piecepacks and most PnP piecepack layouts have 2" tiles):
I'd like to thank Brian Totter, Chez Campos, RonHaleEvans, Jacob Valdez, James Vipond, Dan Burkey, and Eric Allen Mills for suggestions on naming both the StackPack and related concepts as well as suggestions of games that could be played with a StackPack. -- TrevorLDavis
Way back in 2007 Michael Schoessow suggested the possibilities of combining a half-size "travel" piecepack with a "standard" piecepack as an interesting game system in the MailingList.
One could have three piecepacks sized such that the smallest tile fits within a quarter of the medium tile which in turn fits within a quarter of the largest tile. We could call that game system a Fractal StackPack aka FracStackPack.
A StackPack would allow for all of your Chess pieces to be suited:
A StackPack would have enough pieces to play the full 8x8 version of Reversi:
A StackPack has enough pieces to play Shogi (Japanese Chess):
The game of Tak can also be played with a piecepack stackpack. One can make the board with supertiles. One player will use supercoins as flat stones, subpawns as standing stones, and superpawns as capstones while the other player will use subtiles as flat stones, subdice as standing stones, and superdice as capstones - assuming pawns with circular bases the pieces will be "circles" versus "squares".