homebrew expansion packs

A "blank cards" expansion, say a 100 "blanks" for some pounds would be "awezomez"

Instead of blanks,

How about sheets that contain 12-16 fronts and back aligned.
Then all you have to do is align the words and presto.

Even perferated? or pre-dented so they can be punched out.

Heh, I just had the epiphany last night that FFG should sell blank cards, and here I find that my idea has been suggested before I could log in! I think that would be great. And doing it the way Hallowknight suggested, I think, where the cards are on a sheet so you could actually use a printer to key in what the card is to say.

I would envision that, at the very least, they could market a "combo pack" of blanks, with say two sheets of blank character cards, 5-10 sheets of blank adventure cards, 2-3 sheets of blank spell cards, and 2 sheets of blank purchase cards. They could also sell sheets of just one type of card separately.

I imagine that the only real downside to this is that, if FFG were to also release card-only expansions, the less-than-moral penny-pincher might have the urge to just buy blank sheets and print the contents of FFG's work on those sheets instead of buying the expansions. To this I'd say:

1. To the extent that I can be regarded as the average consumer, the only way I, personally, would even consider doing something like that is if FFG released say a 30-card expansion that was, universally-agreed upon, 29 dud cards and 1 awesome card. Then, and only then, would I consider printing that one good card.

2. To the extent that anyone is more likely to print their own cards than buy official expansions, the tools are already available to do so. This would just allow FFG to collect some revenue in that process.

Expense.

One thing FFG could include with the blanks, is the software with all the Fonts, and stuff in the right postion, for easy printing. They then could actualy have it higher priced than a expansion pack.

Also regardless of the price, there is a bit difference in "offical" expansions and home made. Cant play a offical tournament of any kind with home expansions.

I would buy both. Regardless of what was more expensive.

HallowKnight wrote:Expense.

One thing FFG could include with the blanks, is the software with all the Fonts, and stuff in the right postion, for easy printing. They then could actualy have it higher priced than a expansion pack.

Also regardless of the price, there is a bit difference in "offical" expansions and home made. Cant play a offical tournament of any kind with home expansions.

I would buy both. Regardless of what was more expensive.

i'd buy at least one make-your-own expansion if it came with all that.

So you would still have to print out " one side " and cut them yourself. Ouch if you mess up while printing. Still sounds cool though. I like the files idea where is it all set up to put the paper in and turn it over and it prints on both sides with no surprises. LOL... is that even possible?

Crow T Robot wrote:So you would still have to print out " one side " and cut them yourself. Ouch if you mess up while printing. Still sounds cool though. I like the files idea where is it all set up to put the paper in and turn it over and it prints on both sides with no surprises. LOL... is that even possible?

'Course it's possible. But just to be clear, you really don't want to be printing both sides. That would be a lot of ink, and on glossy sheets a potential mess. Let the sheets come with the backs already complete, so you just need to print the fronts. Software could be included for aligning everything correctly, or simply instructions for how to set it up in Word. Instructions would probably save a few pennies for FFG, and then in turn for us the consumers.

And certainly, a screw-up in printing will waste a complete sheet of cards. There's really no alternative to that. If using Word, it would certainly be possible to print one card on a sheet at a time, thus minimizing the consequences of a screw-up. Or the really low-tech amongst us could just hand-write in the contents of the card, thus avoiding the computer use altogether.

Whilst the idea of FF publishing a do it yourself expansion set maker sounds nice I can't really see it happening in practive. They may possibly do a set of card backs..

What I would like to see, which I think is within the realms of posibility, is some card protectors the right size for Talisman. These not only would protect the original cards (some of mine have already got marks on) but would allow home made cards to be added without them being obvious. They could even be made by an indapendent company as long as they didn't break copyright (e.g. they could just be the right color backs).

Geoff