The present invention is a device for action-figures, game-characters, dolls, or models used in strategy and role-play game play that comprises a display base comprising a character attachment means, a cord dispensing (extending)/cord recoiling (retracting) mechanism, and a cord end device attached at the free end of the cord length contained within said cord dispensing/recoiling mechanism. The invention is used during gameplay, with the cord end device and the display base separated by the length of cord extended from the cord dispensing/recoiling mechanism to display a separation of distance, angular range, limit of distance, range of motion, range of boundary, or other gameplay parameter demonstrable by a cord length connecting two separated devices, to demonstrate, confirm, and/or measure the player's character's features, functions, parameters, and/or limitations of gameplay within the game.

Described herein are systems and methods for stacking block games, which may include a game board or base including magnetized portions and a hover platform having at least one magnet connected thereto and being suspended above the game board or base and in a floating or hovering arrangement that can be generated by magnetic repulsion between the magnet of the platform and the magnetized portions of the game board or base. Further, a plurality of game pieces may be arranged in a stacked orientation on the platform.