Road Knights: Play Aids
Dashboard Card
I really wanted to find a way to keep track of changing values (Speed
Points, Velocity, etc.) that was easy to keep with you as you moved
around the game table after your racer; having to carry a lot with you
is a pain, and it's a pain to have to jog back to your scratch pad (or
whatever) to check things or update values. The Dashboard Card keeps
track of Velocity, Damage Points, Speed Points, Effective Handling, and
Round Order, and only requires some cardstock and five paper fasteners.
And, since I needed a back to cover the heads of the paper fasteners
anyway, I put a rules quickref there so that, hopefully, there will be
fewer trips to the rules pamphlet.
- PDF, Single Card, for printing out a single card.
- PDF, 2-Pack, for printing a couple of cards at once so you don't waste so much cardstock.
- PDF, 4-Pack, which may fail to print the ends of the tabs, depending on the printable area on your printer. Since there's no information on the tabs, I don't figure that's a big problem, and you waste less cardstock this way.
- SVG, Single Card, so you can make whatever modifications you might want to using whichever vector graphics editor you favor (I use Inkscape, but you might prefer CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator).
Assembly Instructions:
- Cut out the card.
- Score along the fold lines: between the front and back of the card, and where the bottom tab will fold.
- Using a craft knife or point of a scissor, poke a small hole in the middle of each dial.
- Push a paper fastener through each hole from the back.
- Fold both tabs down in the same direction. Using a pair of square-nosed pliers, grab the tabs at the point where they cross the numbers, and fold the end of the tabs back toward the center of the dial. Use the pliers to squeeze the fold flat, and then grab about 1/8th of an inch of the end of the pointer and bend it up very slightly (which will make it easier to push the pointer around the dial).
- Fold the back of the card down, then fold the tab over to the back, and glue or tape it down.
Stat Block Card
The way the Dashboard Card keeps track of changing values, the Stat
Block Card keeps keeps track of all the values of your Knight/racer duo
that don't change (Reflexes, Durability, Valor, etc.). It also
lets you have brief summaries of what your racer's Special Abilities do ready
to hand, without having to pull out the Special Abilities Reference.
- PDF 4-Pack, unadorned, for printing.
- PDF 4-Pack w/logo, for printing all fancy-like (You will be forgiven for not quite seeing the point in printing the version that has the logo on it, as most of the image will be covered anyway.)
- SVG, one of each, so you can use your favorit vector graphics editor to mess with them as you see fit.
- PDF, Stat and Special Ability strips, for printing.
- SVG, Stat and Special Ability strips, so you can limit what you print to what you actually need, rather than getting one of everything. I really recommend fiddling with a vector graphics editor for the Stat Block Cards, so you don't end up with piles of stuff you really don't need (and which is printed on cardstock which is not, after all, free).
- Cut out the card and strips.
- Score along the fold line between front and back of card.
- Using a craft knife, cut along the lines on the face and back of the card to form slots which will hold the strips.
- Fold the slot tabs up slightly, to make slipping the ends of the strips into the slots easier. (I've noticed that, because I'm a monkey, some of the text on some of the Special Ability strips is partially hidden by the tabs over the slots. If this gets in your way, you can cut the tabs off entirely using a straight edge to guide the cut.)
- Fold the card closed and tape it shut, being careful not to tape over any slots.