@Talkalots:
Man, sb. You have really upped the ante with these. I loved the idea of using cards, but the graphic work on these is intense. Why the unusual size and shape? You doing all your own printing?
Thanks for the comment!
The odd shape, started with, gathering all the data that was going to be needed to fit per card. Making it easily readable (I didn’t want anyone to have difficulty reading them). I started with max width, which I knew I wanted all the cards to fit in their OOB piece box. I made my first run way before I thought about making my own boxes, but I think its actually a good width. From there the height was just finding a uniform look, where I would end up using the max space and most cards. I think the fuller they are, the more pro it looks. Also, I knew I didn’t want front/back prints, I wanted everything per topic to fit on a single side…… don’t want to be flipping cards, I want to read side by side… see Unit stats and Combined arms at the same time, etc.
Didn’t mean to be long winded, but ya lol, that’s for the odd size. I took my files to Office Max, they did the printing. Was expensive for the set, double side print (there is a back, just not data) printed on cardstock, then laminated. Trust me, no one wants to pay what I did for this set, which is why IF there was interest id look into it being produced, Office Max is not the answer. (even though they did a Pro job).
I played a game yesterday at a hobby store, the cards really drew in some lookers, and everyone loved them around our table, everyone had cards laying around all over, I noticed everyone referring to them, was nice… way less questions about rules, new players doing things they normally wouldn’t do… our first game with 0 submarine questions! Was awesome lol.