r/printandplay

I'm trying to put together a PnP version of a card game I run on Tabletop Simulator. I'm struggling a lot with the actual printing part when it comes to the cards. I figured I could print the cards on a standard sheet of paper and cut them out, then put them into sleeves in front of standard playing cards. I've been saving all my files as .png and the colors weren't coming out correctly. Turns out .png uses a different color system than the printers I've been using. So I tried to change it to the same using online converters and they look like garbage. I downloaded a different editing program but as far as I can tell the color I want doesn't even seem possible. I saved my test sheet as a .jpeg, but that just resulted in a very washed out and blurry print. I can tolerate the washed out look, but some smaller text is borderline unreadable. I thought about trying .tiff but the file size is so big it seems unreasonable. I'm at a loss at what I can do other than just accept the colors being wrong.

I made 100 giant uno cards and now I want to make a box for them on Canva or Adobe with perfect length and size as actual uno please help me out how to make and print it on which kind of paper. The dimensions are 21cm x 14 cm thickness of 53 deck is 2cm

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I'm searching for some challenging solo dungeon crawl PnP games that play in under an hour without requiring too much crafting effort(cutting few cards is fine). What are the best ones you've played?

Not sure if this belongs here or in some sort of tcg community?

But im looking for some inexpensive card game i can actually get into and not just collect, that is meant to be played solo. Think of games like magic the gathering or pokemon and such games but for people like me who have nobody interested in playing.

Im up to hear you out as long as it follows most of what i said. Im also up for print and plays if needed, even tho im not really crafty.

I have a card game I've been working on, its a fan made game based on a video game. Currently I have it playable on Tabletop Simulator, but people have been asking for a PnP version to play in person. I have zero idea where to do that. I did check BBG, but since this is not a published product, and I do not own the rights to the IP, it seems to go against their terms.

I'm going to the beach with friends in a few weeks and wanted to bring something light with a nautical theme. I saw someone reviewing The Last Lighthouse on here and stumbled across the game by the same creator "Shallow Regrets". I played a ton of Dredge when it came out and have wanted to explore the games big brother Deep Regrets

In any case, any games you would recommend that :

1. have a solid fish and or nautical theme

2. Pack small and light

3. Easy to learn with solid replay value (one friend isn't hard core but me and my brother are all about the crunch so we have to meet in the middle here)

4. Doesn't have to be horror or weird (though that is a favorite). I'm also a big fan of Oceans and Abzu (video game).

I am wondering if there is any certain component that people find it discouraging to try a PnP game.

Please share your thoughts.

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I've been deep in building a golf print and play for a while now (that I hope to turn into a tabletop game), and I keep running into a question I don't have a good answer to: who is this actually for, and where do they hang out?

Golfers are my gut answer, and it makes the most sense. But golfers (from my exp) mostly aren't tabletop people. they're on golf subreddits, golf Discords, watching golf YouTube. They're not browsing BGG or Itch for print and play golf games.

Meanwhile tabletop/board game communities skew really hard toward a few genres (from my perspective): you've got party games, fiction (fantasy/sci-fi), deckbuilders.

Gregg Jewell, who made Galdor's Grip, also has a couple of golf-themed titles: Bookmark Golf and Tournament. They just don't seem to get anywhere near the same attention or conversation as his fantasy stuff. Genuinely well-made games from a designer people clearly respect, and the golf ones still feel like they're flying under the radar compared to the rest of his catalog.

Feels like it kind of proves the point - even coming from someone with an established audience, the sports theme doesn't carry the same pull as fantasy does in this space.

And look, I get it, if I didn't love playing golf, maybe I wouldn't try someone's golf themed game. There's clearly a divide between people who love sport and people who love tabletop. I'm someone who likes both and want to bridge the divide.

So I'm stuck between two audiences that don't obviously overlap:

• Golfers who love golf but don't necessarily think in "tabletop" terms (where do I give them a game?)
• Tabletop players who love games but don't necessarily care about golf, or sports at all

Makes me wonder if you kind of have to already love the sport to seek out a game like this in the first place — like the crossover only happens for people who were already living in both worlds, rather than a game converting someone from one side to the other.

Anyone here made a sports-themed game and found where their actual audience was hiding? Did it end up being more sports fans who happened to also like games, or more board gamers who happened to like the sport? Curious if anyone's cracked this, or if it's just a genuinely small, hard-to-grow niche.