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Re: Formally Announcing: The Medieval Marketplace, A Common Castle Builders Project
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:27:49 GMT
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Hi Josh,
Along Chris's line of thinking -- there are a lot of sets from recent years
with 16x32 tan or brown baseplates - anyone that collects the original
Adventurers or Wild West series has a truck load of them, myself included. I
can't think of many sets in the last.. 5 years that came with green
16x32's.. they've been less prevelant.
If the goal is to allow the most people to join in, unless you're talking
those with purely Old School (IE: 80's to early 90's) collections, it seems
like you could be shooting some people in the foot by making it be green and
only tan/brown if in the desert. Most town markets would have a bit of
trouble keeping their grass green and growing - it's trampled to heck and
back by thousands of hoofs, feet and wagon wheels.
Having a permanently built Ren Faire only an hour south of me, I've seen the
results of this in "reality" -- the grass is in the large fields behind the
shop buildings but there just isn't much more than brown scrub between the
shops because it's been scoured down to rock and dirt. The only place that
is an exception is where the creek splits the Faire's property -- there are
lots of trees and grass for maybe 30 feet on either side along the banks.
I know you said it would likely be 'ok' to have green plates along the edges
of a tan baseplate to blend it, which I think is a great idea (love your
example Chris, it's perfect) but there are also people that don't
necessarily have much in the way of green plates to do that.
Just a thought aimed towards inclusion vs unintentional exclusion. The Space
guys need gray plates for obvious reasons.. castle doesn't 'have' to have
green. It's not about the plates, it's about the spirit right? :)
JJ
In lugnet.castle, Josh Wedin writes:
> Hi Chris,
>
> The standard is currently green; however we wanted it to be as flexible as
> possible. I am sure that it would be okay to use a tan plate if you
> "greened" up the edges where it would meet the other shops. The main idea
> is getting together with other people and having shops that "fit" together.
> We thought about making the paths brown or tan but decided to go with green
> because it makes it easily for the most people to be able to build according
> to the standard. Anyway, that was our thoughts.
>
> Josh
>
> > Now, most of the time un-paved roads are worn areas (IRL and in 99% of the
> > Lego villages I've seen). So I think it only makes sense to make tan the
> > standard, with the option of adding the green on to landscape. This will
> > further enhance the worn in, rutted look of the road. Green would be more
> > for courtyard and outskirt areas.
> >
> > Of course, just my opinion. Plus, in my case, tan baseplates of the 16x
> > persuasion are more abundant in my collection.
> >
> > Even if the standard is strictly kept green, it should be ok for me to use a
> > tan baseplate and "green up" the edges, yes?
> > (for example, look at the meshing of green and tan, particularly in front of
> > the small house beside the church, in this folder):
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=13151
> >
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