Too Many Bones [PNP] [ENG] [GUIDE]

[Buba Mara]

"Too Many Bones comes loaded for bear by breaking into a new genre: the dice-builder RPG. This game takes everything you think you know about dice-rolling and turns it on its head. Dripping with strategy, this fantasy-based RPG puts you in the skin of a new race and takes you on an adventure to the northern territories to root out and defeat growing enemy forces and of course the infamous "baddie" responsible. Team up or go it alone in a 1-4 player Coop or Solo play campaign. With over 100+ unique skill dice and 4-7 classes to choose from, every battle is its own mini challenge to figure out. Your adventure will consist of 8-12 battles before you reach your final destination and face off against one of a number of possible kingpins in order to win. Along the way, you will be faced with storyline decisions that will quickly have you weighing risk/reward, odds, and logic - with dice woven into every aspect! Your party will also be faced with other decisions: when to rest, when to explore, or even which fights to pursue! The Encounter cards offer fun plot twists and some comic relief, all while setting the stage for your next battle." BGG: Link PnP: Too Many Bones Base, Ghillie, Nugget, Tink, 40 Days in Daelore, The Age of Tyranny (Huge thank you to TheGent for the scans of 40D, TAoT, and UT!) Undertow (with Gasket, Stanza, and Duster) Password: boardgamer12

So this was quite the involved build. You need >200 blank dice, >100 poker chips, a good amount of thick cardboard, sticker paper, cardstock paper, and some printer paper.
Dice: I got mine from AliExpress – 50 white, and 25 of each of orange, pink, black, green, blue, red, and yellow. It took ~2 months for them to arrive, but they did and were ~$25.
Poker chips: I had a lot lying around. Ideally you need 65 red, 62 black, 2 blue, 2 purple, 2 yellow, 2 green, 1 white, 1 gray, 1 orange. I used red, black, and everything else white and it's fine. Here's the results I got for the main materials.

The PnP suggests what you need to print the files on. The rulebook can go on printer paper, the cards on cardstock. The poker chip stickers can be cut by a rotary compass circle cutter (or by hand), the dice can be cut with an appropriately sized circle punch (or by hand). The boards can be glued onto thick cardboard (amazon boxes or similar) and you then want to cut dice-shaped holes to fit the dice in them when you play.

The mediafire link contains all the individual pictures of the materials (for the base game only, I'm running low on storage on mediafire at this point), so you can resize them if you're not using the same size dice/chips as me.

[leviathangr]

Great stuff! Thanks!

[RazzzMtazzz]

wow this is great work and amazing quality! thanks a lot!

[laurenthion]

hello, thanks a lot for this work !

Do you think you will do the same for the other extensions ?

[pesto126]

Nice work.. but this is when I start to think about just buying the game and investing the time into something else....

[Buba Mara]

@laurenthion I wasn't going to if no one asked, but I do like the idea of having the expansions on here. No promises on a timeline, though, some time in the new year.

@pesto If you can get your hands on a cheap second hand copy, go for it. I thought a retail price of $150 was outrageous and I find making pnps really quite satisfying and relaxing. Definitely prefer it to working at a job . The only actually annoying part of the build was waiting for the dice from AliExpress.

[TheGent]

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[laurenthion]

@TheGent : yes please 

[Buba Mara]

@TheGent That would be great! I get the images from various TTS mods, but some are particularly bad scans, including:

Stanza, Duster, Gasket character boards
The Scar cards
All the chips from the expansions + Dire Wolf Pup, Troll Sage, Troll Enforcer, and Troll Brute from the main game
The non-base boss dice

[TheGent]

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[laurenthion]

Hello TheGent, no news good news . . . or no news no news 

[Buba Mara]

40 Days in Daelore and The Age of Tyranny are up on the mediafire. Files got a little large, but that's not surprising with the quality of scans. Undertow will take a little longer, since I need to mess around with the boards quite a lot to get them to look good from a printer (this damn game with its mousepad boards :| ). Sizing should match the base game PnP, let me know if something is way too off for however you're using it.

[laurenthion]

Thanks a lot for the update.

[Nerdyboy]

For those who dont want to buy dice, buy these ones.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_BT5OHV


I bought 250 for like 13euro. 1,5cm. I am now printing the die faces but i dont have stickerpaper so i just print them and spray glue them on them. Will make pics once i have a few done

[zzum]

woah! this is amazing work. very well done. thank you.

[Buba Mara]

Undertow is finally done (link in the original post). There's also Splice & Dice, but I'm not starting it just yet, let me know if you're interested.

[laurenthion]

Thanks a lot

[Blackdra]

no stickers on boomer cubes((

[wynter17]

no stickers on boomer cubes((

here https://im.ge/i/hhhRy

[Buba Mara]

no stickers on boomer cubes((

Fixed, well spotted. Let me know if you find any other mistakes. I did try to put every character's dice next to their char board.