Handouts: Points of Interest
How to Easily Create Handouts for your game's Points of Interest
Based on a tip by @Stephan Hornick, I wanted to create Handouts for Points of Interest in my West Marches-style Game. These handouts should be easy to digest and allow players to decide on the next mission to prepare in detail for the next session. The idea of creating collectible card game-style cards caught on with me. I searched the web for tools and found several:
Attached you will find my build of RPG Cards. Download & unzip it. In the Generator folder, open index.html. I am distributing source and build following the MIT License. RPG Cards is Copyright (c) 2017 Robert Autenrieth. The included icons are distributed under the CC BY 3.0 license and are provided by https://game-icons.net/.
This is my cheat sheet for the available formatting commands:
You can find an example for my game here: https://heldenhaufen.de/Grenzland-Kampagne/Cards/Borderland-Locations.pdf
You can read my "musings" on starting such a game on RPT.com: https://www.roleplayingtips.com/adv...tarting-a-west-marches-campaign-step-by-step/.
How to Easily Create Handouts for your game's Points of Interest
Based on a tip by @Stephan Hornick, I wanted to create Handouts for Points of Interest in my West Marches-style Game. These handouts should be easy to digest and allow players to decide on the next mission to prepare in detail for the next session. The idea of creating collectible card game-style cards caught on with me. I searched the web for tools and found several:
- RPG Cards (https://github.com/crobi/rpg-cards) - open-source, clean output
- Item Cards (https://www.itemcards.com/) - for the visual types
- Spell & monster card creator (https://rollforfantasy.com/tools/spell-cards.php) - please let me know if you get it to work your way.
- DTRPG Pathfinder Card Builder (https://www.drivethrucards.com/builder/pathfinder) - has a wizard, seems a bit cumbersome for my purpose, but you can directly order your cards in print
- Card Creator (https://store.steampowered.com/app/523600/Card_Creator/) - looks like the ultimate tool, but it costs a decent EUR 33.99 - it seems worth it if you want to create a lot of cards.
Attached you will find my build of RPG Cards. Download & unzip it. In the Generator folder, open index.html. I am distributing source and build following the MIT License. RPG Cards is Copyright (c) 2017 Robert Autenrieth. The included icons are distributed under the CC BY 3.0 license and are provided by https://game-icons.net/.
This is my cheat sheet for the available formatting commands:
Code:
subtitle | text
property | title left-aligned | details left-aligned | title right-aligned | details right-aligned
rule
ruler
boxes | 10 (count of boxes) | 1.0 (size of box, 1.0 = size of "e")
description | title | text
dndstats | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10
text | text
center | text
justify | text
bullet | text
fill
section | text
disabled | text
picture | https://example.com/image.jpg | 150 (desired height of picture in pixel)
icon | armor | 20 (size) | center (position)You can find an example for my game here: https://heldenhaufen.de/Grenzland-Kampagne/Cards/Borderland-Locations.pdf
You can read my "musings" on starting such a game on RPT.com: https://www.roleplayingtips.com/adv...tarting-a-west-marches-campaign-step-by-step/.
