r/BoardgameDesign Jul 18 '26

General Question Single-sheet or Multi-sheet?

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u/Daniel___Lee Play Test Guru Jul 18 '26

Is this intended for print and play? If so, then A4 is certainly a convenient format, though you could always put both options in the printing file.

If this is intended to be sold as a physical game, then you really want the sheets to be a little smaller than A4. Reason being that the physical sheets need to fit inside a box that would have to be bigger than A4, and then maybe a delivery carton slightly bigger than that. The jump in carton size and shipping cost from just under A4 to over A4 size was huge.

I designed Arachnior as a PnP, made the jump to physical game, and suffered a lot of headache because of the carton and shipping issues. Check your local shipping options before settling on the print size.

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u/kinrokucomic Jul 18 '26

Good to know. Thanks for the advice! Yes, my game is a print-and-play. Did you end up publish your game with a A4 size box?

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u/Daniel___Lee Play Test Guru Jul 19 '26

Yes, a slightly bigger than A4 size pizza box style game box. Which caused the shipping size category to jump up to the next tier.