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For the past 5 years, I've been running a board game accessory business out of my house: https://burgertokens.com

There's a surprising number of people who love to upgrade their board games! It's a great community.

I've gotten your deckboxes a few times. They work great, especially for games with factions with smaller decks that don't need a full Magic-sized deckbox.

Like I've got them for each character's deck in Bullet, and each team in Baseball Highlights 2045. I have a few for my KeyForge decks as well.

Might be worth looking into a Spirit Island offering. It's very component-heavy, and the community is passionate about customization!

A set of reversi pieces in your style would be nice.

Are you using a button press??

I am angry that I didn’t think of this.

No, I sell domed stickers that stick onto both sides of a penny. Though I also have a number of other products including deckboxes and specialty dice

Oooh, I see. That’s new.

Oh that's amazing, I'll need to keep you in mind.

I got a set probably a decade+ back of something that looks pretty similar - a guy who was just experimenting at his workplace worked up a small-batch production method. Can't recall what he called them though to search up. Two epoxy bulbs around a penny is an amazing token weight, and they stick to each other so you can make stacks up to 5 without much trouble.

I wound up with two generic sets (geometric shapes for ranked counters, with N points on the shape, plus a set that's good for +1, -1, and damage counters) and I've been using them ad-hoc for misc games on and off since.

Edit: remembered! it was https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/276266606/pennygems

If you play a lot, good accessories can make the game much faster to install, put away and transport.

I 3d print stuff for this reason for many games.

You’re popular on Reddit! I just wish you had Lord of the Rings LCG :)

I do have tokens for that game!

https://burgertokens.com/products/lotr-lcg-tokens

Pretty cool, though I am a little disappointed there’s no Euro-style worker placement game where players compete to build the best gourmet burger restaurant!

Not really a Eurogame but Food Chain Magnate's theme is pretty close.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/175914/food-chain-magnat...

Why isn’t it a Euro? European designers, heavyweight econ mechanics, seems very abstract and not at all thematic.

Great find though! I’m interested in it!

I guess it's a bit more directly competitive than typical eurogames, but I could be wrong, I'm actually terrible at categorising things likr this!

But it's an excellent game, one of my all time favourites I'd say

Every euro I've ever played has been viciously competitive! Can't tell you how many arguments we'd get into over the wood pile in Agricola! All in good fun though!

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