Harry Potter - Board to Tabletop
Board Game to Tabletop
I didn’t want to vary too much from the game to make use of the same components and have their text and rules still make sense. In moving to the tabletop, I simply converted spaces and ranges to inches (1 space = 2″, though I capped a move action to 4″ to keep the play area manageable). Line of sight and cover rules became familiar ‘model’s eye’ calls with 3D terrain. This simple conversion and some common sense worked well – not a tournament ready ruleset, mind you – but definitely playable in a more visually appealling environment.
My current terrain collection runs more to pulp/modern and sci-fi or generic rural, walled fields/woods. I did just get the Battlefields Terrain Crate from Mantic and the combination of that with what I had led quickly to a Quidditch World Cup set-up. A simple scenario with VP for knocking out opposing models and random objectives was made and the teams drawn up to a 60 galleon limit.
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