We’re running a DCC game with rotating DMs. With DCC, the various long term- and side- effects of magic items are often undisclosed to the player that carries the item. However, with rotating DMs this can be difficult. So we’ve decided that characters will end up carrying their items on special cards that each DM can read before he runs those characters.
Downside is that the player now knows the full side effects of the stuff he’s carrying.
Upside is less confusion.
Other upside? Pretty certificates!
Certificate Background
I put this graphic together for our DCC certificates. Printed 4 to a page (they fit just about perfectly 4 side-by-each on a letter page turned to landscape orientation) they almost feel like bookmarks. Put the name of the item in the top scroll, image in the blank space, stats in the big piece of paper, and who gave out the certificate and where it is from in the little box at the bottom.
Here’s a set of sample ones I threw together to test out the system:
Sample Certificates
The last three sample certificates use art from Tazio Bettin under the cc-by-sa license. The first uses artwork by V.Shane.
Please, feel free to use the cert background wherever / however you want it. Heck, I’ll release it under the license I usually use for my free commercial licensed maps. Feel free to ignore the Attribution part if you are just putting together a set of play aids for personal use, this is just for those of you who decide to post those play aids to public places for the random folks of the interwebz to find them.
Art by Dyson Logos is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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These would be good as spell cards too. Thank you!
Very cool. I used to print out little half-sheets for magic items in my campaign because it saved writing down the details for complicated items like a Cube of force and also to keep track of who has what item, since the party tended to swap stuff around.
As well to help keep the holder of the item in the dark, annotate on the bookmark who is holding the item and when that individual is the DM dont give him/her those bookmarks. In the end everyone else will know the deep secrets of the item except the holder of it. Now just trust in the integrity of the players not to spill the beans
Yeah, your idea of rotating the certs from DM to DM without ever letting the player of that character see it is even better (since that player will not have his characters in play when DMing).
We are a BRILLIANT TEAM!
Mwah ha ha!
Reblogged this on Iho's Chronicles and commented:
I think that it’s a fantastic set to create effects card decks for gdr.
Penso che sia un fantastico set per creare mazzi di carte con effetti per i gdr.
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