Customs Creation articles in the revived Codex

[IshMEL]

For those of you custom creators who read the forums but don't keep up with the blogs, you may not have seen the articles on Customs Creation from the HS Codex, now that it's moved to the blog format. There's some great stuff there you should not miss!

I'll update this as new articles come out:

Tandem Designs, Part 1: The Theory
Tandem Designs Part 2: The Practice
In which @Son of Arathorn explores how to design units with synergy.

Designing Top to Bottom
In which @johnny139 discusses the differences between “top-down” and “bottom-up” design.

The Good, The Bad, and the SoV-Worthy
In which @Scytale asks, what makes a Heroscape custom “good” or “bad”?

Codex Customs Parallax Design: Monkey Swarm
In which IshMEL, Scytale, and johnny139 independently create a custom using the same figure, the Pathfinder Monkey Swarm, and critique each others' designs.

Where Rules Don’t Bend
In which Scytale discusses what rules really should not be broken when designing your custom.

YACE
In which IshMEL does some regression analysis and reveals his formula for Yet Another Cost Estimator.

Faction Creation
In which Scytale outlines what to do when creating your own faction.

YACE: Special Powers
In which IshMEL provides a tutorial on using YACE to estimate the costs of custom special powers.

[IshMEL]

In case you missed it, there's a new Customs Creation article in the Codex blog on Faction Creation written by Scytale. Check it out!

[Sherman Davies]

Yeah, that's a good article by Scytale about how to design a cohesive faction from the ground up. He knows what he's talking about, too - he's one of the folks designing a brand new faction in C3V right now, and it looks to me like it could end up being one of the more unique things we've done.

[IshMEL]

A new article up on the Codex blog from yours truly -- more on using YACE, this time with a focus on estimating the cost of special powers.