I whipped this up after running a couple of trial chase scenes using the Savage Worlds rule system. Essentially in a chase you put the ‘chasee’ at one end of the chart and the ‘chasers’ scattered as needed behind them. Each turn everyone makes a skill check, if they succeed they can move closer or farther away. If someone gets more than 10 range increments away from the target they fall out of the chase.
Now you could of course just use a piece of paper or draw it on your battle mat but since I have Hirst Arts molds and the adventures I’m going to be doing are set in the 20′s and primarily urban, making a section of street and sidewalks seemed a lot cooler than a simple piece of paper or some dry erase marker on a battlemat. Or at least I think so.
As a result, after a couple of hours work gluing and painting I have my own custom chase chart. (Molding time not counted here.) The paint job is rough of course, this is an ‘actual play’ piece and not a display piece and spending hours of work detailing it would be wasted for the most part as it’s handled and scuffed and all that. This way I won’t mind if the paint gets chipped or damaged. Well I won’t mind as much. 
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Anonymous
May 10, 2010 at 2:17 pm (UTC -5)
That is very cool. You should make up more of these and sell them (hint hint). i know for the right price, I would buy one.
Anonymous
May 11, 2010 at 11:36 am (UTC -5)
You should make more of these and sell them. I know I would buy one. Very Cool!!!
Dennis
May 11, 2010 at 2:15 pm (UTC -5)
Not really an cost effective option. It takes roughly 7 casts of three molds each to get enough pieces (albeit with quite a bit of extras) add in assembling and painting (maybe four-five hours spread out over several days to allow for drying time ) and there’s just not a way to make it affordable without doing the work for free. The molds run $29-$34 each so trying to ramp up production to reduce the time investment would take awhile to recover. To the point where it would probably be cheaper for each person to buy a mold, to do a basic chart with one type of tiles you could get by with a single mold and just paint to differentiate between the sidewalks and streets. That would run you $29 for a floor tile mold. Paints are $1 to $1.50 for each color from a craft shop. And you could use PoP or Plaster of Paris to mold with, it just wouldn’t be as durable as using casting plaster (2000PSI versus 10,000-12,000PSI).
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May 21, 2010 at 11:01 am (UTC -5)
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