Hello everybody,
I started working on my very first board game a few weeks ago and found this forum because I was looking for ways to differentiate between Melee and Ranged combat in a board game without physical distances in combat. I'll post this topic shortly in the Mechanics subforum.
I wanted to build a custom board game because I like fantasy adventure and building games such as D&D The Board Game, WoW The Board Game, Runebound, Runewars and Mage Knight. The funny thing is, though, that I have never played any of those so I really am a rookie (I have only played casual games such as Carcassonne, Catan, Risk and Stone Age). I intend to pick up (some of) the before-mentioned games but so far I dont have many occasions on which I can play them with other people.
Other hobbies of mine include motorbikes (I have a Yamaha BT1100 Bulldog), guitars and progressive metal (check out my band at www.epicmind.nl) and weight lifting. I'm a PhD student in evolutionary ecology, where I study population dynamics and host specificity of ticks.
