…or the English title: How to build tabletop terrain: Gaming Boards

Both don’t roll off the tongue so easily, which is why we prefer to say: Michael’s new book.

Which Michael? Michael Martin, who runs the YouTube channel Tabletop Workshop and published the book Tabletop-Gelände aus Hartschaum: Gebäude (Terrain from XPS Foam: Building) together with Gerard Boom (Shiftinglands).

So now a new Kickstarter about boards that mean worlds. This time he’s brought in a couple of co-authors, but more on that later.

Assuming that Michael puts as much work and love into the new book as he did into its predecessor, this book will be a great reference work. Because as nice as YouTube tutorials are, if you are looking for a specific piece of information, scrubbing a video can be a lot of work. A book with an index is much faster and more durable. In addition, you can add bookmarks, notes and you still have it if the power goes out, the channel disappears or you just want to have some peace and quiet in the bathroom.

Michael was kind enough to send me some key data. Here are the most important ones:

• The Kickstarter starts on Thursday, 15 July 2021, at around 6 p.m.
• The Kickstarter ends on Sunday, 15 August 2021, at 10 p.m.
• Funding goal: 15,000€
• Delivery of the book is scheduled for August 2022
• No PDF or digital version, the book will be published in print only
• Price: 55,- € (later retail price)
• Kickstarter price: 49,- € (i.e. 10% discount compared to later retail price)
• Kickstarter price, Early Bird: 44,- € (20% discount, first 72 hours only.
• Guest authors:
  Marcus Müller from Berlin (aka “Der Müller”)
  Philipp Preiser (aka Tabletop Lenny)
  Zorpazorp Gaming
  Black Magic Craft

So for all those who bought either his first book, Mel’s terrain book or are into books on tabletop things in general might want to give this a look.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tabletopworkshop/how-to-build-tabletop-terrain-gaming-boards?ref=clipboard-prelaunch