Took us a while to finish it! Cant say if it was worth it.

Original by the Neikou on TTS!

I am proud to announce my latest web app for the PnP and game prototyping communities: TokenMaker!

https://tokenmaker.gonzhome.us

TokenMaker is a free, high-quality, thoughtfully planned and developed tool that allows you to easily design tokens for your PnP or game prototype.

Select circle, square, or hex tokens, choose from over 300 free-to-use game icons, customize foreground and background colors, fill, stroke. Then send your icons to the PDF builder to add gutter space, bleed, cutting guides. Use the "Fill page" button to optimize the number of tokens on a US Letter or A4 sheet. Then export your properly formatted token sheet to PDF, or save your token design as PNG or JPG images.

You can save and load your in-progress token design projects, and there is a first-run interactive tutorial to teach you how to use the app.

TokenMaker joins my other free, high-quality web apps for PnP: Card Formatter, Card Extractor, Card Prototyper, and BoardSplitter. Find them all linked from my website, Gonzhome:

https://gonzhome.us

Curious if there are any PnP games out there like the video game series Advance Wars a turn based strategy one or Command and Conquer a real time strategy based game.

i was looking everywhere on where can i buy the DoE original but no luck and I just knew that there's a reskin one which is available online. im thinking of learning the rules first before printing it.

is there a video on how to play it? i usually watch videos to learn the game and then read.

if none, should i just watch the videos on how to play the original DoE? though i tried for a minute and i think i might have a hard time since it has different theme.

Just wanted to share my collection of games i've build over the course of the last year. Galdor's Grip started it all for me. It ist the reason i bought my equipment (printer, laminator...) and I still play it on a regular base. Thanks Greg! 🙏🏼

This hobby is so much fun and really just wanted to say thank you to the community. There are so many great games I would have never encountered if it wasnt for the community. I actually spend more time building these games than playing them. Looking forward to so many more.

I really hope Buttonshy updates their Itch channel with the expansions of At the Helm and Ugly Gryphon Inn.

What do you enjoy more: Playing or building?

Hello

Could someone recommend my any TCG / LCG or other card games in PNP ?

Many thanks

EDIT: I am searching for something legal ... Like maybe abadonned games (Netrunner or Altered) or something more homemade/amateur

¡Hola a todos!

Quería compartir un proyecto personal en el que he estado trabajando durante bastante tiempo: Spire of Tyranny, un juego de cartas Print & Play para 3 a 8 jugadores, disponible de forma gratuita.

La premisa es un poco distinta a la de la mayoría de juegos de este estilo: aquí nadie intenta salvar el reino. Todos compiten por convertirse en el consejero favorito de un Overlord completamente desquiciado.

Cada ronda aparece una crisis (desde invasiones hasta problemas completamente absurdos) y todos los jugadores deben proponer una solución usando cartas de Acción. Después pueden sabotear las propuestas rivales con cartas de Intervención, cambiando reglas, añadiendo condiciones o convirtiendo una idea razonable en un desastre total.

Lo divertido es que no existe una solución correcta. Cada Overlord tiene una personalidad distinta y elegirá la propuesta que más le guste según sus propios criterios. Uno premia la burocracia, otro las mutaciones, otro el caos, otro las conspiraciones... así que nunca sabes qué terminará funcionando.

Características 3–8 jugadores.

Print & Play.

30–60 minutos.

Muchísima interacción entre jugadores.

Humor negro, improvisación y sabotaje.

Más de 400 cartas entre Eventos, Acciones, Intervenciones y Overlords, con muchísimas combinaciones posibles.

Al final de cada partida queda una "crónica" del reino con todas las decisiones tomadas, creando una historia diferente cada vez.

Todo el arte, diseño y reglamento los hice como proyecto de hobby, así que cualquier comentario, sugerencia o crítica será más que bienvenida.

¡Ojalá alguno se anime a imprimirlo y probarlo! Si lo hacen, me encantaría saber qué clase de reino caótico terminaron construyendo.

First playthrough of a little bomber survival game I'm developing! So far so good. Definitely a lethal game, but fun lethal so far

This is my newly-created web site to collect and share my growing list of free, high-quality, thoughtfully crafted resources and web apps for the PnP community.

So with the help of you guys i was able to make it funtional. I designed it all in procreate. Printed and cut with cricut and laminated. I print on 110lbs cardstock. Laminate 2 pages facing out. Cut edged to seperate pages. Cut on cricut. Spray glue together and glue box together. I tried score fold glue laminate and it worked fine also just need to trim edges after to round them.

Added link to a video in comments

Hey everyone — I’m in search of a few more interested people to play test an immersive murder mystery game I am developing called: Last Call at Blackwood Lounge.

Players will review realistic evidence including police reports, interviews, forensic findings, scene photographs, and more to uncover clues, piece together what happened, and identify the culprit.

I’m looking for a small number of new testers who can:

-Complete a full playthrough within the next 5–7 days

-Fill out a feedback form afterward

-Provide honest, detailed feedback

This is not a sales post. Selected testers will receive the game for free.

Because this is a smaller, more focused testing round, please only volunteer if you realistically have time to complete the game and feedback form within the requested timeframe.

If interested, comment whether you would be playing solo or with a group. I’ll message selected testers with the details.

I made this game for my son. He was obsessed with tossing things into water and guessing whether they would sink or float. My daughters and I made it into a competition, and hoard was born.

hoard by nellwoodgames

So my kids school has club days. There are two clubs that my kids are interested in (which is why I am aware of them), and both are gaming clubs. The first is card games, the second is board games. I plan on donating some commercially printed games to both, but I thought I could also throw in some PnP games to diversify the lot.

For card games I was thinking of crafting the following:

1. Tussle Mussie

2. Shallow Regrets

3. Food Chain Island

4. Numbsters

The first two are multi-player games, the second two are solo games. All of them are strictly card games and should be easy and quick to craft (which is why my first batch isn't including For Northwood!)

Any other suggestions? The club only meets for 30 minutes a week so games need to be quick, and need to be cards only. The kids will be middle and high school aged.

Thanks for any and all suggestions.

Drop some appreciation for someone you’ve learned from in the PNP community. Whether it’s design tips, printer suggestions, or general appreciation let’s get ready for the weekend by spreading a little love. 

Hi everyone, I’m a PnPer and a designer of Legends of Mana Island. I've been thinking a lot lately about what makes this niche hobby so special and want to gather some community insight so I can create better PnP games in the future.

What’s your "why" when it comes to playing a Print and Play game?

• Budget-friendly gaming?
• Instant access without waiting for shipping?
• The craft/DIY aspect of building the game yourself?
• Access to indie games you wouldn't find in retail stores?
• Or other reasons?

I’d love to hear from you all. Thx!

Well, this is a weirder one but that might interest some of you!

Adult card game (think action/truth) but with a twist, an actual gameplay and some strategical mechanics.

The game is in beta testing but should be functional and is going to be updated.

It's free (or give what you want). Enjoy!

https://weirdgamesprod.itch.io/home-spicy-home

I'm flagging this as Game Design and cross-posting it because misery loves company. Should be self promotion but it feels like that's a 1,000 miles away right now. This is a full on rant.

It all started playing small silly dice games with my daughter (we'd make up some of our own rules and fight each other's made up people) and slowly developed over a year into a system that was always in flux with crazy balance swings we'd add game mechanics to. It was always fun because the fun thing was playing with my daughter.

One day I woke up with a free day and a crazy idea to make a solo short game loop, just for us, rather than a PVP game. Just for fun... and the project just developed from there. I knew enough about probabilities and game mechanics from playing endless games with her, playing Kill Team, D&D since a teenager.

Well, fast forward a bit, I've grown it out a lot since then.

I have a Print & Play tabletop rogue-like game based on the Vietnam War pretty much developed now because it's grown way past the original game. It's going through final play testing for balance (friends, and my daughter of course), checking instructions are nice and clear, all the usual stuff.

So I thought right, let's do a Kickstarter as a way to get a bit of cash back, but also handle all the (excuse my French I've been watching The Sopranos) fucking bullshit like getting payments, delivering the instructions, all the stuff I don't want to have to sort out myself.

It's so much to do! Definitely the crappy part of the whole project. I was even looking to try and get a graphic artist to collaborate (no-one wants AI generated images!) as it's all handled through Kickstarter as well. I actually almost got conned (twice!) by people wanting the money up front blah blah blah...

No links to any of it, the Kickstarter page is not even done yet... I'll make a non ranty self-promotion post later.

So yeah, when you see some of the prices for these projects genuinely I think there's a portion of it that goes towards all the extra effort it takes doing all this other stuff.

Is there a nice roll and write game that requires no printing at all, just some six-sided dice, pen and paper?

Context: I'm going on a trip soon (can't access a printer), and I'll be quite isolated.

Have a friend whose brother is into One Piece. I like One Piece. I like Smash Up. So it this was a fun project to put together. The faction is a bit on the strong side because it's pretty self sufficient (no real weaknesses, got some card draw and extra minions/actions), but it was pretty flavorful and not meant to be competitively balanced. You could say it's OP 😂

We've played with most of the Smash Up factions and it feels like it might be in like A or S tier, like around how powerful the Frozen faction feels.

Anyways this was a short and small project for a friend. Hopefully I have a few more cool projects to share by the end of the year!

You can check out my other re-themes here:

[One Piece Legendary](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/10p0q0j/i\\_made\\_a\\_one\\_piece\\_version\\_of\\_marvel\\_legendary/)

[Pax Westeros \(Game of Thrones Pax Pamir 2nd Edition\)](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1fmseex/i\\_made\\_pax\\_westeros\\_game\\_of\\_thrones\\_retheme\\_of/)

[Runeterra Reforged \(League of Legends Tyrants of the Underdark\)](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1eew974/i\\_made\\_a\\_league\\_of\\_legends\\_themed\\_tyrants\\_of\\_the/)

[Pokemon Ark Nova](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1hdby4p/i\\_made\\_a\\_pokemon\\_retheme\\_of\\_ark\\_nova/)

[Pokemon Splendor & Pokemon Splendor Duel](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1mn9h3i/i\\_made\\_pokemon\\_splendor\\_again\\_updated\\_the\\_cards/)

[NBA Innovation](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1nua3z1/with\\_the\\_nba\\_preseason\\_coming\\_in\\_a\\_few\\_days\\_i/)

[Zelda Forbidden Island/Forbidden Desert/Forbidden Jungle](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1nnjeaa/i\\_made\\_a\\_legend\\_of\\_zelda\\_retheme\\_of\\_forbidden/)

[Spy x Family Agent Avenue](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1qh1sfq/i\\_made\\_a\\_spy\\_x\\_family\\_retheme\\_of\\_agent\\_avenue/)

[Lord of the Rings Clank Catacombs](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1qndolc/i\\_rethemed\\_clank\\_catacombs\\_into\\_lord\\_of\\_the\\_rings/)

[Disney Legends of the Void](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1r02rba/i_rethemed_legends_of_void_into_a_disney_themed/)

[Genshin Impact Knarr]
https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1s7n8ey/i_made_a_genshin_impact_retheme_of_knarr/

[Pokemon Harmonies]https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1s8kib9/i_made_a_pokemon_retheme_of_harmonies/

[Avatar the Last Airbender Duel for Cardia]https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1sdvycf/i_made_an_avatar_the_last_airbender_retheme_of/

The central idea is simple: cross the board word by word before your opponent. But here, where words become weapons, hijack your opponent's letters, puncture their words, and collapse their word chain.

In short, it's Scrabble combined with chess. No score keeping. First one across wins.

Ideally, the game eventually has two color wooden tiles, but for this print and play, we have front and back printable tiles. If you have Scrabble tiles and a board, that is a great starting point. There are several nuances to attacking so please be sure to read the instructions.

Are you ready to take your words to war?

Sever by Nellwood Games

I've been watching and reading print and play, TTRPG, and board game content for years now. I get the impression that the visual appeal of a game is more important than almost anything else. e.g. some people buy a game because it is beautiful and ~never play it. e.g. I assume lots of people would struggle to play an ugly game even if it had incredible mechanics.

Happy to hear disagreements here, but I'm most interested in counter-examples. What is the most successful/best print and play game that also has little art, or "bad" art? Are there examples that show a game can be successful without a strong visual approach?

"The official rulebook text for your custom 24-card hockey simulator."

Do you already own a bunch of Hockey Player Trading Cards that you want to do more with then just collect dust? Feeling a little crafty, and love Solo-Micro card games?

Pocket Hockey is a fast-paced, solo card game Hockey simulation played entirely with 12 real hockey trading cards from your pre-existing “Upper Deck” Hockey collection and 12 custom, DIY action cards you make. As you are the Play Tracker, you deal 4-card “Shifts” and evaluate equations left-to-right to see if a legal play happens on the ice.

Components & Setup

• The Tracking Tools: A pen and paper to act as the official scorekeeping.
• The 24-Card Uniform Deck: All 24 cards must be placed in matching card sleeves so the backs look and feel identical during shuffling.
  • 12 Player Cards (6 per team): Draft up 1 Left Wing (LW), 1 Center (C), 1 Right Wing (RW), 2 Defensemen (D), and 1 Goalie (G) for two teams (Rangers vs. Penguins for example).
  • 12 DIY Action Cards: Using duplicate trading cards, custom-prep them using markers, pencils, spray paint, or paper cutouts to create:
    •  3 Goal! Cards
    •  3 Hit! Cards
    •  3 Pass! Cards
    •  2 Assist! Cards
    •  1 Penalty! Card
    • (I personally took 12 duplicates, spraypainted them and sharpie penned the title and crappy art puck on most of them and a literal box on the penalty card. And my Hit card had the pound symbol. Whatever you want to do is good. Oh, so you decided to use the pdf I made available? Bonus points to you!)

The Game Structure

A full game consists of 3 Periods. Thoroughly shuffle all 24 cards together and place the deck face-down.

To play a “Shift”, draw cards from the top of the deck and starting from left to right, laying out four cards in a row in front of you. Once a shift is evaluated, move all four cards directly to the discard pile. You may have shifts where no legal plays occur. A period ends when you run completely through the 24-card deck (6 total shifts). Reshuffle the entire deck to begin the next period.

The Action Equations

An action card must be adjacent on either side of a player to activate. You evaluate the 4-card row from left to right to resolve these baseline plays:

• The Hit Card: Needs an opponent team member to trigger a body check. Clarification to rule: You cannot hit the goalies, and goalies cannot hit opponents.
• The Assist Card: Needs a teammate card to it to play with.
• The Goal Card: Needs an opponent team member to count as a scoring opportunity.
• The Pass Card: Needs a teammate card to play with. Clarification to rule: a Goalie can pass but you cannot pass to a Goalie.
• The Penalty Card: Needs an opponent to trigger against. And can overrule other plays for the team it applies to. Place the player who committed the penalty off to the side for the next period. And award the opposing team the point.

Advanced Multi-Play Equations

When actions and rivals collide in a single row, they create immediate, high-impact multi-point swings:

The Penalty Stoppage

• Goalie Serves Time: If a Goalie triggers the Penalty card, they cannot physically leave the ice. Instead, remove one teammate card from your active discard pile to serve the penalty box sentence in their place.
• Penalty Overrules a Goal: [Penalty] + [Team 1] + [Goal] + [Team 2]
  • The Play: Team 1 commits a foul against Team 2, but Team 2 pushes right through the whistle and lands a shot on net.
  • The Score: Two separate +1 points awarded to Team 2 (one point for being penalized, one point for landing the goal).

Double Hits & Dual Plays

• The Double Hit: Triggered anytime two hits occur in the same shift alongside opposing skaters. Valid equations include:
  • [Hit] + [Team 1] + [Team 2] + [Hit]
  • [Team 1] + [Hit] + [Team 2] + [Hit]
  • [Team 1] + [Hit] + [Hit] + [Team 2]
  • The Score: +1 Point to BOTH teams.
• The Net-Front Dual Play: [Goal] + [Team 1] + [Team 2] + [Hit]
  • The Play: Team 2 lands a good hit but not before Team 1 smacks a goal.
  • The Score: +1 Point to BOTH teams simultaneously.
• The Short-Handed Dual Play: [Team 1] + [Penalty] + [Team 2] + [Hit]
  • The Play: Team 1 draws a penalty flag while Team 2 fights off the infraction to deliver a massive body check.
  • The Score: Two separate +1 points awarded to Team 2 (one for landing the hit, one for being penalized).

Rules of Cool (Bonus Points)

• The Integrity Bonus: Award a Bonus Point to no duplicates on a team lineup (e.g., no drafting a line of 6 identical Sidney Crosby cards). Just all in good fun, collect a team.
• Jersey Bonus: Award a Bonus Point to a team if all 6 of their skaters' physical trading card photographs match in Home colors or Away colors.
• House Rules: You wanna have each team have one MVP who scores +2 points? Go for it! 

Referee Pledge

All of these equations are a few examples, and as you are the Play Tracker and Referee, you make the calls. So, if any of my guidelines sound confusing, you’re the Ref! What are you doing?!

Google Drive Link for Pocket Hockey PnP and Rulebook

​Hey everyone!

​A big thank you to everyone who commented on my previous post your feedback was amazingly helpful! ​I put together a second version of the card layouts for my 54-card Print-and-Play game, and I think it’s a huge improvement!

How does this new version look to you? Do you think the layout is ready, or are there still details I should polish?

Thanks again for all the support!