 October 5, 2012 - 4:22am | I was writing a 2-20 table for a magazine article on items that might be found in pirate treasure and suddenly came up with Vrusk Checkers - its a cross between Chinese checkers and Star Trek's 3d Chess. It's also been call Hive Checkers it can be expensive as the vrusk being lovers of beauty dont settle for the cheaply mass produced crap and their complicated game boards is often a thing of beauty. a low priced version goes for 30 Cr and the price goes up from there. Expensive boards can be the center piece of a vrusk's quarters. There are even 0 g versions of the game mostly using magnets to hold pieces in place. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 October 5, 2012 - 9:32pm | I like the name Hive Checkers as a PanGal translation (literal) of the name. I am imagining a 12 sided polyhedron shape when all of the pieces are set in their home positions. -iggy |
October 6, 2012 - 6:09am | I'm also imagining something 3d with multiple levels and possibly pyramid in shape. Re: the name i usually do that a discriptive name is purely the literal pan gal translation like vrusk thai che. Or yaz fu. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 October 16, 2012 - 3:30am | It probably has grandmasters and regular competitions. I'll bet they have books about the complex strategies involved. |
October 16, 2012 - 4:08am | I suppose that we dont really need to diagram the board nore codify the rules for this game within the setting simply describe it as a complicated 3D game that the vrusk love and that most game boards are hand crafted things of beauty unless they are a mass produced factory made game board that only a human or a dralasite would buy. BTW I had a friend who made a copy of Spock's 3D chess board and I've played it- it didn't strike me as anything special. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
