Verge Materials
From Verge
Verge requires some special materials to play. This chapter explains what you need and how you can acquire them (or reasonable substitutes).
Paper
You'll be drawing a giant web of ideas, the network, on a shared piece of paper. That piece of paper should be as large as possible. Office supply stores sell pads of easel-sized paper. Most large grocery stores and general-purpose retailers sell poster board. You'll want white, or at least some very light color like yellow, so you can read what you write on it.
If large paper is not available to you, tape together four or six or nine regular sheets of blank paper (put the tape on the back so you don't have to look at it and write on it).
Pens
You will need to distinguish who wrote what. It's best if each player has a pen of a different color. Sharpies work great. Avoid similar color pairs (test on a separate piece of paper, if necessary): blue and black, orange and red, green and blue. These and other pairs of colors can look a lot alike on paper. You'll have to experiment to find distinguishable colors for everyone.
If you don't have colored pens or markers, regular pens or pencils will do. You'll have to initial everything you write down, though, and that is a pain in the ass.
Write a quick "key" in one corner of the paper: have everyone write her name in their color of choice, neatly along the outside edge of the paper near their seat.
Dice
Verge uses a lot of six-sided dice. Players can share dice. 20-30 dice should be sufficient for play. They don't have to match or anything like that.
You can purchase attractive six-siders in "bricks" of 36 12mm dice for about $7 online and in fine hobby stores. I've seen bricks of 100 plain white, pipped six-siders on eBay for $8. The smaller 12mm dice are better than the larger 16mm dice because you get more of them for the money and you can fit more on a node.
Tokens
You'll need some kind of tokens. Color doesn't matter. Life is better if they stack. Really, poker chips are best because they stack and are easily countable. "Dollar" stores often sell small boxes of poker chips for... well, a buck.
If you don't have poker chips, you can get by with cards, glass beads, or even pennies. Glass beads don't stack well but I guess they're pretty. Playing cards stack well but are hard to count at a glance. Pennies are hard to pick up and move around.
