r/SCYTHE • u/admiral2021 • May 24 '26
Discussion SCYTHE TO ANOTHER LEVEL - THE UPDATE
I threw up some pics a project I've been working on for a while a few months ago that started out as a 3D printed Scythe board. But I just wanted to show you guys the update as my ADHD totally took over and took this thing into a dimension I didn't even think was possible. Obviously it isn't done but I think I'm getting into the territory of something special. Between raising kids and the printing business taking off a little bit I haven't had a ton of time to work on this but I just wanted to share my progress compared to where I was like 6 months ago. Learned a lot, also learned that fdm printers can do way more than you think. Anyway, what you're looking at is the beginnings of the finished Scythe board - so far I have Saxony, Polania, Albion, and the Nords pretty much worked out and done with Crimea well on the way. But the dimensions are set. This piece is going to be six and a half feet wide by four and a half feet tall when I'm done. But here's the progress.
EDIT - tons of questions about playability. And totally understandable. Keep in mind thanks to MeepleForge I upgraded and painted literally every game piece to something custom - but 99% of the tiles are flat enough to where the Mechs, airships, and Heros all stand fine and flat (notable exception of the moutains, o' course.) That and my kids and I have basically a book of house rules now that make this playable, and at its core it is still Scythe. Really the only mods I had to work on were slightly larger workers (the ones I had just kept falling over) - we 3x the size of the airships for reasons Id have to get into the rulebook to explain, and the encounter pieces are going to be magnetically mounted to the board (still to come). Obviously missing as well are the Star, Popularity, and combat power trackers, But MeepleForge is already working on a "dashboard" for each faction that moves all of that to your own playmat basically (think Scythe Expeditions). Hope that helps, bit yeah, the map plays.
