Dining Table PnP

Temporary Home

Well, my previous hosting provider decided to hike prices nearly 50% between one renewal and the next, so it was time to move on. Unfortunately, I don't actually have time to properly move on right now, so for now this is a temporary placeholder page until I have a chance to set the site back up on a new platform. Just the basics for now, I'm afraid!

YouTube Channel

The meat of the Dining Table PnP Experience is on YouTube, where I've uploaded a series of tutorial videos about the craft of making your own board games:

Dining Table PnP YouTube Channel

Download Links

All these downloads were available on the old site, but not all in once place. So technically this is an upgrade!

Christmas Card Games

Every year I design a game that can be printed out as the inside of a Christmas card formed by folding an A4 sheet of card in half. Most of the time, this sticks to something that only needs a few pieces from games most people are likely to have around the house - a deck of cards, four coloured tokens of some kind, that kind of thing. Every now and again I go mad. Many of these games - but not all - exist in the same setting and pit Santa and his elves against Big Plastic, the evil cabal of plastic toy manufacturers who see Santa as an impediment to huge profits and are constantly trying to sabotage his operation and/or steal all his toy designs.

2023 - The Elftermath: The sequel to 2020's Elf on the Stealth, this is an escape-room-in-a-card-style puzzle adventure run via a web app (that unlike this site, still works), in which the player/s assist Santa's elves with the fallout from 2022's game.
2022 - Formula Elf: A push-your-luck dice-rolling family racing game.
2022 - Chocolate Coin: Dona et Tutamen: A COIN pastiche in which Big Plastic foment a workers' revolution on the Christmas Campus in order to take advantage of the chaos.
2020 - Elf on the Stealth: An escape-room-in-a-card-style puzzle adventure run via a web app, in which a mole from Big Plastic has infiltrated the Christmas Campus to steal Santa's toy designs.
2019 - Sleighs and Desist: A cat-and-mouse game for two players, in which Big Plastic's thugs are trying to beat up Santa's elves before they can make sufficient gifts for Christmas.
2018 - Shitty City Lights Committee: Players take the role of small-town council 'volunteers' tasked with putting together a more impressive Christmas lights show than neighbouring towns.
2017 - Top Deer: A card-based programming-racing game in which players try and breed and race the fastest deer for Santa's sleigh
2016 - Ridiculous Last-Minute ~~Christmas Shopping~~ Family Brinkmanship: A worker placement-and-retrieval game in which rival branches of a family vie to invite the most prestigious family members to their Christmas Dinner
2015 - Cinnamon Rolls: A dice-matching engine-builder in which players build a Christmas Market empire
2014 - Citizen Cane: A dice-drafting game in which teams of elves compete to make the most presents before Christmas

Netrunner Tokens

The tokens I designed for the NSG reboot of the best card game in history, as seen in this video.

Money (mixed): 18 1-credit and 3 5-credit coins. Advancement on the rear face of the 1-credit
Money (small only): 24 1-credit coins.
Money (alternative): 18 1-credit and 3 5-credit coins, but this time the 5-credits are larger and red instead of blue.
Tokens (tags/bad pub/core damage): 12 double-sided tag/bad-pub tokens and 6 core-damage tokens.
Tokens (virus/power): 24 double-sided power/virus tokens. Or blue/red markers, whatever you want to call them.

Printing Templates

The most popular of the printing templates I've produced over the years. Once the new site is up I'll link to all of them again, but for now it's tedious to write all this by hand so I'm just doing the ones people actually download.

4-Card Template (A4, Illustrator): Template for printing 4 double-sided cards per page using the technique in this video
4-Card Template (A4, SVG): Template for printing 4 double-sided cards per page using the technique in this video
4-Card Template (Letter, Illustrator): Template for printing 4 double-sided cards per page using the technique in this video
4-Card Template (Letter, SVG): Template for printing 4 double-sided cards per page using the technique in this video
Folded Deck Box (Illustrator): Template for printing a folded deck box using the technique in this video
Folded Deck Box Base (A4, PDF): Template for printing the base of a folded deck box using the technique in this video. You will also need a lid.
Folded Deck Box Lid (A4, PDF): Template for printing the lid of a folded deck box using the technique in this video. You will also need a base.
Folded Deck Box Base (Letter, PDF): Template for printing the base of a folded deck box using the technique in this video. You will also need a lid.
Folded Deck Box Lid (Letter, PDF): Template for printing the lid of a folded deck box using the technique in this video. You will also need a base.
Small Telescoping Box Base (Illustrator): Template for making the base of a small telescoping box using the technique in this video. You will also need a lid; note the cut for the card and the wrap are separate layers.
Small Telescoping Box Lid (Illustrator): Template for making the lid of a small telescoping box using the technique in this video. You will also need a base; note the cut for the card and the wrap are separate layers.
Small Telescoping Box Base Card Cut Guides (PDF): Template for making the base of a small telescoping box using the technique in this video. You will also need a lid; note the cut for the card and the wrap are separate files.
Small Telescoping Box Base Wrap Cut Guides (PDF): Template for making the base of a small telescoping box using the technique in this video. You will also need a lid; note the cut for the card and the wrap are separate files.
Small Telescoping Box Lid Card Cut Guides (PDF): Template for making the lid of a small telescoping box using the technique in this video. You will also need a base; note the cut for the card and the wrap are separate files.
Small Telescoping Box Lid Wrap Cut Guides (PDF): Template for making the lid of a small telescoping box using the technique in this video. You will also need a base; note the cut for the card and the wrap are separate files.