#Fan-made Rule Reminder Cards

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stoic thicket
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Earlier this week, a conversation emerged about cards/sheets that could be laid out on the table to serve as reminders of certain rules in beanSprout. I started adapting the verbiage from @teal robin 's thermal printed ones to create the "YOUR TURN" and "COMBAT RULES" cards. I then got carried away and tried to adapt the entire beanSprout rules page into a total of 7 cards. Obviously not all of them would be needed to be seen at all times but i figured they could be nice to look over at least once for new players. I wanted to use graphics to help break up all the text and serve as something that could be seen at a quicker glance for most reminders. These are set up with grayscaled printing in mind and at standard 2.5x3.5" card size, but honestly I think they need to be sized up to be good and legible. I'm most worried about the legibility of the "MONSTER CARDS" card and "BEFORE YOU START" card since I have annotated graphics on those. Please feel free to look over these and absolutely criticize the crap out of them if there is something I missed or could be worded better. Thanks @remote mason and @swift fiber also for the examples you shared to serve as inspiration for these.

beanSprout_Rule_Reminder_Card_1_BEFORE_YOU_START.png beanSprout_Rule_Reminder_Card_2_MONSTER_CARDS.png beanSprout_Rule_Reminder_Card_3_HELPER_CARDS.png beanSprout_Rule_Reminder_Card_4_GAME_SETUP.png beanSprout_Rule_Reminder_Card_5_GAME_BOARD.png beanSprout_Rule_Reminder_Card_6_TURN_STEPS.png beanSprout_Rule_Reminder_Card_7_COMBAT.png
remote mason
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Innitially just reading this I don't have critique of the information. Just that I'm not sure all of this information should be on cards. It might be a little cumbersome to have all of these on cards rather than just a rules sheet/booklet. It would almost become a second hand for new players. I think the "game board", "your turn" and "combat" cards would all be great as cards though.

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Usually you read the rules once over, then refer to these quickly as you're playing.

stoic thicket
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As I started adding more and more I was thinking of them as a whole more like a rule sheet/booklet just with the card form factor, but yeah I get what you mean entirely. those three you listed are definitely the only three I would like leave out during play

strange gazelle
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I really love this as a rulebook

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If your goal is to make an easy-to-reference card to have on the side, you might need to simplify it

stoic thicket
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Understandable, in my mind I was making like a typical rule book but with those three pages/cards being multi-purpose. Thorough enough to serve as rule book pages to read over the first time with enough visual aide to serve as reminders during play. I can see how some of them definitely aren’t achieving that. Personally I think “The Game Board” and “Your Turn” are about a simple as can be. “Combat Rules” could probably use some work though.