What's your favourite card, meeple, or piece of any board games you've played?
Some personal examples:
Dice forge has its way of handling dices that felt incredibly smart the first time I played it
Same for Codex Naturalis, I was impressed by the simple way they printed the cards to allow for modularity, obviously the game is a lot simpler than I thought but it gave me some interesting ideas with how to overlap cards
Or the boards in Fort that have this double layer so that you can nest your pizzas and toys in there, so cozy!
The nice round disks of a decent Xiangqi set give me a pleasant feeling just looking at them. This, for example, is a set made of Indian sandalwood with mother-of-pearl inlay:
I really like big wooden meeples and the sound they make when you place them on the board. The meeples in Lost Ruins of Arnak are nice and chunky. But I also love the cowboy meeples in Great Western Trail 2nd edition. They are not that big, but the little cowboy hats are just 👌🏼.
A tie between a D20 and the Ace of Diamonds card. The die because randomness and the card because I like to sometimes refer to my fursona as the Ace of Diamonds.
Innis has awesome art and the most unique tiles that are technically hexes.
The gears in Tzolkin make it such a unique game.
The entirety of Too Many Bones is awesome components. The massive over engineering leads to a fun experience. Neoprene mats with cutouts for dice, plastic cards and player aids, weighted poker chips for characters and baddies, and screen printed dice with tons of unique artwork.
My playgroup really enjoyed that in Artisans of Splendent Vale, the Harinya meeple fits nicely on top of the doggo meeple. Then the player unlocked the
Tag Along
power that
lets Harinya move whenever the doggo moves
so the fact that they fit together is actually ludologically relevant
The Serf from _Bristol 1350_ (on the left). Holly Hancock and Sarah Keele really get the macabre feeling of 14th century art right. This side of the card is meant it be used as rules reference. It is an accessibility disaster, because it is meant to emulate the unreadably small handwriting found in medieval manuscripts.