I have designed equipement cards for use in my D&D campaign. So far so good! My players love them. It makes it easy for everyone to keep track of their magic items. I made them with a software to create Magic The Gathering cards. Here’s a small assortment of cards:
The following pictures show the final result of the previous post. Feel free to use them in your Ptolus game! Again, if you know who wrote these Ptolus broadsheets, please let me know! Enough talking, enjoy!
This tutorial details my second batch of Parchment handouts to be used in my Ptolus D&D Campaign (Thanks to someone in the online community for providing the files - please let me know the author if you know who it is!). The first steps are similar to the previous homemade parchment post. This time, I toned my dipping brew with brown (red, yellow and blue food coloring added to boiling water, instant coffee, and a bag of black tea - because it smells good!). I wanted to have different parchment looks: off-the-press, old/wrinkled (like the one in the picture below), with blood and/or stains, etc. It is better to tear and rip your paper now if you want to have a damaged look to your handouts. The drying process makes these damages appear quite realistic (much better anyway than if you try to do them on dry paper).
Handouts were left to dry on thick cardboard. I added red food coloring drips on a few of them to look as blood. It turned out a bit too clear for dried blood. I tried to fix it with black ink while the paper was drying. It worked okay (see this post for final pictures).
Here’s the second batch drying… More pictures of the ready-to-use handouts in the next post…
When our group decides to start a new RPG campaign, I usually end up gamemastering, for many reasons. First, I like it (!). Second, I have some inspiration to get things going and I master many different rulesets/settings. Third, I take the time needed to prepare our games. This really makes a difference in my opinion between a “good game” and a “great game”! Recently, I have been including more and more visuals into our RPG sessions: miniatures, terrain, handouts and other props. I guess this is a side effect of playing miniature games such as Mordheim!
What I’m presenting today is a quick way to make your own parchment for handouts to Read the rest of this entry »
I have been trying to find a dwarf wielding a longsword… with no luck! The best miniature I found to represent Brick, dwarf priest of Lothian, is a plastic, pre-painted Dwarf Mercenary from WotC D&D Miniatures. If anybody knows of a good Dwarf miniature with a longsword, please let me know! Axes and warhammers are way too common… 
