Quick question:
Which RPGs use boards. They could call it play sheets or whatever, just so long as it is an image of some sort that one interacts with, not by writing on it, but usually through placing or moving tokens on it.
So far all I can think of are:
Dream Merchants - Petrasko's Star Chart
Society of Dreamers - The Ouija-like board that determines scenes
Walkabout - The Waking / Dreaming graphic that Secret Tokens are placed on
Lately I've been discouraged by the difficulties involved in making mock-up card decks, so I've been making wooden game boards, for things like Tock, Go, Arimaa, Backgammon.
Partially I would feel too cool for school if I owned an ornate wooden shellacked board for playing Dream Merchants. And partially I'm hoping that owning attractive paraphernalia related to one or more RPGs would make it easier to start up a game with non-role-playing friends.