Audrey’s Oubliette

Ok, 10″isn’t exactly a big stick. But it sure makes a nice size for a ruler in a skirmish game. I have been wanting to come up with some type of ruler to use for demo games of Forsaken. In the number of games I have played I found that 10″and 6″rulers work very nicely for movement and combat in dense terrain. These sizes work for 90% of the measurements in the game, if not all of them. For the longer ranges there is a tape measure.

So I tried to make some rulers using plastruct strips. But it seems that they were a bit too fragile and a number of them were snapped during games, basically due to the notches cut in the plastic rod. I considered getting custom laser etched rulers but that was a bit too expensive for only a few rulers. I made up my mind to have another go at making rulers with plastic rod but making the increments as raised strips instead of cuts into the rod. But I still wasn’t satisfied with that. Then it came to me, I work at a company that prints vinyl stickers.

So I decided to come up with a design and see if it will work. Below is what I came up with. Now I just have to sit back and wait for them to be printed. Once done, I will try sticking them to plastic strips that are somewhat bendable. Hopefully they will work out as I am rather happy with the design. If they do, I think these will be better rulers than I originally had hoped for. It’s nice how things just seem to fall into place sometimes. I will post a photo once I get the actual stickers.