Hell Dorado has some very interesting terraformation rules for setting of the terrain before the game begins in earnest. You divide the 30" x 30" table into nine 10" squares and bid on which squares you wish to terraform. The player with the highest bid for a given 10" square gets to spend terrain points on some terrain feature (a well, rain of frogs, crevasse, lava, etc.).
Game maniacs were selling 1' x 1' EPS boards (actually it was 30 cm x 30 cm) that were 70 mm thick. So I ordered 9 of them. A foot is close enough to 10" in my book (plus, that extra length helps my Westerns against Marek's Lost, hehehe). I didn't realize how thick 70 mm was until I saw them, however.
So now I've been sawing the boards in half, which will eventually give me 18 double-sided modular playing boards. I'm making one set a typical desert/underground setting with one side blank and the other featuring a river. The other set is going to be more hellish, with a black basalt on one side and a river of lava on the other.
To make the modular rivers work, I marked off 2 cm in the middle of the sides the river would flow to. Then I drew the river and cut it out with a knife.
It's taking a long time, but I hope to have one set read by the time the rule book is released.
Here are pics of the work in progress.
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