Creating Paper Miniatures for Tabletop Games

Also known as cardboard or paper minis, these are the very cheap alternative to buying handfuls of paintable pewter (or originally lead) or even plastic molded or hand-sculpted figures for gaming. Most minis stand roughly an inch in height, and are set onto a flat base, either round, rectagle, square or even hex shaped, to keep them upright. Games Workshop, Reaper and Ral Partha are among the more traditional names for true packaged gaming miniatures, but today we'll be looking at the little brother of these fine figures.




Printable or "print mini" paper minis are usually printed onto a piece of paper or sometimes thin cardstock that can be fed into a typical ink or laser jet printer - many paper mini users print onto paper first to make sure a mini looks good without having to waste more expensive cardstock, and then cut out and glue or otherwise affix the paper mini to the cardstock, which also adds extra strength, combining the cardstock and the paper.

A Special Note on The Surly Jock

Irritated jocks. No, let's try this again. SURLY jocks. That's better. Surliness and jocks, two great tastes that... no, let's back up again.

Anyway, are you a jock? Do you know a jock? Do you have a jock? I mean, like, a person in your life who plays or likes sports?


Neither you nor your jock even have to be surly to visit The Surly Jock for all of your sports discussion needs, and see some considered, thoughtful, possibly insightful and useful, possibly outraged commentary on various topics in sports! Not always the same sport or topic, but always entertaining!

Check out The Surly Jock and be an athletic supporter!

Random Wrestling Move Generator Returns!

Yes, the Random Wrestling Move Generator returns! I apologize for the broken link as my previous host for that script disappeared and I didn't know, but I've fixed that now. I'll be working on some other generators as well, both for wrestling but also for tabletop role-playing games - height, weight, sex, age, hair and eye color, and my largest undertaking, random world locations.

The Wrestling Move Generator toy here at Abstruse Decapod will generate random pro wrestling maneuvers, moves and holds, from both authentic collections as well as creating new and exciting moves using a sophisticated sports-entertainment maneuver-logic algorithm. Just refresh the page for more!

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Offtopic: Eschew Twist Ties - Spin It Instead!

I sat an unopened, twist-tied loaf of bread on my table the other day. Later that day I went to open it and found roaches in it.

I have roaches, because if there is a god, he hates me. I have various suspicions about who to blame but it's pointless to do so.



But anyway, normally after I open a loaf of grocery store off-the-shelf bread, I just spin it tightly and tuck the excess twisted plastic under the loaf and sit it back on the table without tying it, and it never gets anything in it.

Which means what I do is more secure than the way commercial bread is packaged, and the bread sitting on the shelf at the store, is quite open to things crawling into it with little effort.