Have printer, will play.
I’ve been working on the Print and Play Gamer blog for several months now. At this point, I’ve got a pretty good idea of where it’s going and how it’s going to get there. I thought I’d take a few moments to share my plans for the site. Here’s an overview of the content I …
Tweet Now in its fourth issue, J.V. West’s Black Pudding is one of the most entertaining OSR ‘zines going. Each issue offers 28 pages of 70’s-style, DIY dungeon-crawling craziness, prizing imagination over logic and fun over complexity. And while every Black Pudding feature may not fit into every OSR campaign, West’s rapid-fire writing, exaggerated illustration, expressive hand-lettering …
Tweet PnPG is excited to share the first of what I hope will be a long series of free, downloadable print-and-play game accessories–a PDF of giant toadstool miniatures! I created the first of these as my contribution to the May, 2018 Forum Hoard at the Cardboard Warriors forum, but this is the only place you can …
Tweet The most basic miniature-modding project is formatting a collection of figures onto a single page for printing. You may have accumulated an assortment of miniatures from several sources that you want to print as a set, or perhaps you’ve re-skinned some minis or created your own from scratch, and need to arrange them in …
I’m a tinkerer. When I become interested in a hobby, I don’t want to just buy a kit and follow the directions. I want to take things apart, change them up, and put them back together to make something new. That’s a big part of why I love the print-and-play segment of the gaming hobby—the …
PnPG How-Tos: Tutorials for Cardstock Kitbashers Read More »
Last time, I took you on a quick tour of the Download Central page at OneMonk.com, where we found more free cardstock minis than we could possibly download in a week. Today, we’re going to DriveThruRPG.com, the internet’s leading PDF game store, to amass another trove of legit free miniatures. You’ll Need Adobe Reader In …
Even if you’re new to tabletop gaming, you’ve probably seen Dungeons and Dragons miniatures on the shelf at your local game shop or book store, so you have some idea of what 3D minis look like. But many gamers have never seen high-quality cardstock miniatures on a game table, and you may be one of …
Fantastic, Free Cardstock Miniatures and Where to Find Them Read More »
Miniatures have been a central element in tabletop gaming for hundreds of years. But when I came back to tabletop gaming a few years ago, the $1 metal men I loved in the 70s and 80s were gone. They’d been replaced by little plastic dudes costing $5, $10, or sometimes much more. If I was …
Update: PnPG is Live! Print and Play Gamer is now officially launched, so this post is now obsolete. Fortunately, my vision for what the site was supposed to be is basically the same as what it actually turned out to be. So as a brief introduction to the site, this post is still basically valid, …