Tips & Tricks… Game Pieces

With the release of the Legendary Battles packs, we have gotten a few questions on how we cut out the round games pieces so crisply and how we turned those into full-fledged cardboard pieces.

As for cutting out the pieces, we use a 3/4″ inch circular scrapbooking punch, available at most crafting stores (e.g. Michaels, Joann Etc., Amazon.com, etc.). Depending on the model, you simply flip it over, line it up on the outer edge of the game piece and punch!

To turn the punched out pieces into full thickness tokens it is a little more involved (and there are a couple of different methods). Our friends over at Boardgamegeek.com have some forum threads that do a better job of explaining these processes than we can.  We recommend checking out this link:

Making Game Pieces

For our maps, we just print them out on the heaviest possible cardstock (usually #110 lb. stock), trim them up and put them under Plexiglas when we are playing. Some folks however, like to mount them on a heavy matt board for a more “polished” feel. Again, our friends over at Boardgamegeek.com have a great discussion about doing that:

Making Game Boards

Some of these methods may require a little practice & patience, but the results will be a very nice game that you can show off to your friends – and play for years to come!