royalpain88 | 25 Mar 2015 11:06 p.m. PST |
Hello everyone. I am an amateur game designer who has a successful start at writing up his own rules as seen at this past Cold Wars 2015. I intend to improve gameplay quality b improving my unit data cards. At the moment, they are big cards printed on chipboard with holes drilled into them and they are not the best looking ones. I intend to improve these with smaller cards that players can write on with a dry eraser marker. How do I go about doing that and what materials do I need or places that can do this for me? |
David Manley | 25 Mar 2015 11:35 p.m. PST |
I bought myself an office laminator to do this kind of thing. Not expensive and has given me solid service for 20 years now. |
Dexter Ward | 26 Mar 2015 3:04 a.m. PST |
Laminator, or put them in clear card sleeves. |
Schogun | 26 Mar 2015 4:44 a.m. PST |
Maybe just a temporary fix, but yesterday at Office Max I saw a roll of Dry Erase Tape. About 2 to 2-1/2 inches wide in a dispenser like packing tape. So you could cut tape to size, apply to your card (or base as in Blucher) and then use dry markers. Package also said the tape is easy to remove, so once it gets messed up, you can easily replace it. |
wminsing | 26 Mar 2015 6:05 a.m. PST |
If the cards are anything like standard sizes, card sleeves. Otherwise, lamination. You can buy one, or a lost of office supply shops with printing services also do small batch lamination. -Will |
thehawk | 26 Mar 2015 6:35 a.m. PST |
In case you have not seen them, Zvezda's WW2 games use cards.
These are thin card with a plastic coating. An alternative to the suggestions above is printing a page of cards and using sticky plastic roll film – the stuff used to cover schoolbooks. Dry erasability might need testing. |
McLaddie | 26 Mar 2015 7:13 a.m. PST |
Even clear shelf paper can work as an erasable surface with markers. |
Zematus | 26 Mar 2015 7:15 a.m. PST |
Just put them in card sleeves and use wet erase markers instead of dry erase. |
wminsing | 26 Mar 2015 8:06 a.m. PST |
I've used dry erase on card sleeves for years, no issue there. -Will |
rampantlion | 26 Mar 2015 8:12 a.m. PST |
I just bought some of the dry erase tape and used it for some fatigue counters. Worked great, and it is removable without damaging what is underneath (supposedly, but I have not taken any off yet…) |
rmaker | 26 Mar 2015 9:25 a.m. PST |
I suggest you use overhead projector transparency markers. They seem to erase better AND they usually have a finer tip than whiteboard markers. |
CeruLucifus | 26 Mar 2015 12:02 p.m. PST |
Yes, card sleeves with wet erase markers (= overhead projector pens). |
cmdr kevin | 26 Mar 2015 6:24 p.m. PST |
Scotch tape, the matte finish. It can be written on and erased with pencil, just like paper. |
royalpain88 | 30 Mar 2015 7:11 a.m. PST |
Thanks for your suggestions. I ma go with the card sleeve idea. Just gonna have to reprint the cards. Do they come in various sizes? |