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Cleaner, easy to use, and less mess overall.Īs these are fully customizable, I could also see these being really handy for game designers, as you could easily make prototype dice for play testing. Instead of having 6 piles of various tokens around the table, each ship basically had one cube that would sit next to it. So for the second game I busted out the Mod Cube samples I got. Eventually I was digging for the one I wanted through a pile of tokens, which were also now taking up precious real estate on my tabletop. Things were fine for a while, but as I quickly grabbed, placed, and discarded tokens from the table, what began as a bunch of organized piles quickly degenerated into a mass of cardboard.

In my first game, I just used the tokens. Recently, I was able to try out some prototypes of the Mod Cube in my latest game of X-Wing Miniatures (and I totally smashed those Imperial Dogs…). But for a game with a bunch of those cardboard chits, Mod Cubes can be awesome. In fact, it’s a fine approach for a game with 1-2 tokens. But can’t I just use the tokens to mark them? Well sure, you can. Part Token, Part Dice, Part IKEA Storage Solution (ok, I made that last part up), the Mod Cube is fully customizable and lets you keep track of status effects with 1 six-sided cube that can be easily rotated to the token you need. In this installment of Level Up My Game, we are going to look at a new way to track conditions in your game. That’s right we are going to save you from the inevitable pile of tokens you need to sort out at the end of the night.Įnter the Mod Cube. The down side of them is that they also can be a mess to keep organized and find, especially in games with many of them. They mark events, status conditions, and other things that a player has to keep track of. No, I’m taking those little cardboard chits you use to mark things during your game.įunctionally, they work fine. No, not those shiny metal quarters you used to play ended rounds of Gauntlet in the arcade ( mental note: play more Gauntlet).