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Zola Mod is a NIGHTMARE

DO NOT BUY FROM ZOLA MOD!!

Pleeease I urge anymore to reconsider if you are looking for a game table

I bought the Pangea table from them 3 months ago. I was SOOOO excited, the table looked so good on social media

The Pangea table was easily the worst $3000 I've ever spent.

Ordering from them has been a literal nightmare, it borders on a scam, and every single step along the way has been the actual worst

Let me walk you through my experience:

  • The original delivery was missing hardware

  • The replacement hardware was missing half of the screws

  • Then the hardware they sent to replace the missing hardware was for the wrong table

  • Then after getting hardware, the frame was 1/4" small, so the rails were all misaligned

  • Then the playmat was too big

  • The replacement mat was shipped packed flat and now has permanent creases

  • The tabletop pieces don't fit properly and slide around

On top of that, replies from customer service took almost 2 days every single time. It's been 3 months since i ordered, and my $3000 table is only just now semi-usable.

Please please please learn from my mistakes and do not buy from this company, this has been the worst purchase of my entire life

At this point, i don't have any recourse except to hope i can save all of you some misery

I hope i can save at least a few of you from my misery

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u/Ok-Friendship507 — 3 days ago
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Card Cascade: Modular, free store-and-play system for Dominion

With Card Cascade, the lid is also used to push up rows of card holders so they form a nice cascade of cards during play. This allows all the cards to be on display while playing, while keeping the size of storage boxes to a minimum. I've made a 30-second video that shows how the flip and push works.

There are 8 box sizes, each in a sleeved/unsleeved version, and I believe this is enough to hold every set of Dominion. If you have a large 3D printer, just 5 different sizes are needed to hold all sets; if not, you need 5 different size boxes and some sets get split in two. They are all the same height so stack nicely.

This is the evolution of a project I posted about a few weeks ago, and I think this version is much better :) In the old version I had just 3 sizes of box, and it turned out that it was both fragile and risked damaging the cards. It also didn't support smaller printers, sleeved cards, tokens, player mats, slide-in labels and other nice-to-haves that this version does.

The full details of the project and all the different permutations of boxes are available on MakerWorld. I hope you enjoy printing and storing your Dominion games as much as I do!

I'm still tinkering with it, and as I don't have all of the expansions it's possible that something isn't quite right. Let me know, and I'll try to fix the issue as soon as I can.

Feedback, questions and comments are very welcome. If you think this is useful, please like the model on MakerWorld too :)

u/Farzag — 9 days ago

Mansions of Madness Full organizer finally complete!

3D printed (and designed a few of the organizer pieces) for the Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition board game! It speeds up set up time and tile placement A LOT! So worth it!

u/Ikyboi101 — 8 days ago
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Couldn't find a Treasury Box insert I wanted for The Queen's Dilemma, so I made one

I was looking for a player Treasury Box insert for The Queen's Dilemma and found one on MakerWorld by Jontos. It was really close to what I wanted, but there were a few things I would have done differently, so I ended up designing my own inspired by it.

It organizes the Resources, Power, Heraldry tokens, cards, Voting tile, and Diary while still allowing everything to close without lid lift. I also made some larger Dilemma outcome markers and Ideology sliders to make the game state easier to see from across the table.

More photos and files are here if anyone else is looking for something similar:

MakerWorld: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2958034-queens-dilemma-treasury-insert-ideology-markers

Cults3D: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/queens-dilemma-treasury-insert-ideology-markers

u/nick1n — 9 days ago
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Custom dashboard for my favorite game - Terraforming Mars

Used my laser cut to make a fun custom dashboard for Terraforming Mars. Little upgrades just make the gaming experience that much better.

u/Cool-Rush-2250 — 13 days ago

Played Quacks this weekend with my custom organizer!

This set up of Quacks (mega box edition) was SO FUN! Definitely one of my top playthroughs of this game! We just started playing with ALL the expansions and, man, does it make it more fun!! The carrot nose card/essence phase is now one of my favorites along with this set up of ingredients (only yellow and red weren’t bought quite as much). I had so much fun designing this custom organizer (see pictures) and I hope to make more updates to it soon. One thing that bothers me is that it’s annoying to keep track of when the essence phase and card draw happens. It would be nice to 3d print a new scoreboard with those added phases so it’s easy to remember! Let me know if you have any other ideas to improve gameplay and I might make them!!

u/Ikyboi101 — 14 days ago