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My daughter really wants to play miniatures with me. Problem is, she has a learning disability and can't read. She loved beating me in Age of Sigmar. I tried explaining 40K for her but with so much reading she is just totally lost. Same when I showed her other options in AoS. Just too much reading. For a while it was great for her to roll dice, but not really understanding why, I can see she is loosing interest in the game. She wants to play Magic with my son who is into that now. Again too much reading so she can't play it. So I got thinking, why not try and merge the two together? So I am thinking why not make cards for her to simplify it so she can understand. So my question is now, how do I make cards so I can print them.

I would like to make some Age of Sigmar cards for her to start with. So I just want to get a pic of the mini or artwork of the mini I find online. Then I will make some stats for her, like a boot or foot for movement for example so she will know what movement is and it's 10" for example, a sword for attack ect. This she will know and understand. So instead of trying to teach her and loose her because she can't read, I want to simplify it for her so she can at least understand and learn that way.

So how do I do this? I have Microsoft Office so not sure if this will be able to make these cards. If I can use this, then I will learn how to use Microsoft Office to do this. I just need to know what do I use, basically start me in the right direction.

If I can't use Microsoft Office, what do I need then? What should I get?

Please help. It's great to see my daughter interested and wanting to play with Daddy. I want to keep this enthusiasm in her.

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something that simple you could use MS paint for, or you could play a simpler game (Songs of Blades and Heroes, far less numbers, all measurements are done on 3 sticks vs various measurements).
but if you're dead set on AoS, then MS Paint would be the easiest, I've done similar for Yugioh tokens, took them to a print shop to be resized and put on good card paper.

MS Office should have plenty of clip art available for you to use in MS Word.

You can be cheeky and do some alterations in MS paint to crop bits you don't want or to add something extra.

Gotta say I am pretty excited for you. Its always great getting your kids involved in your hobbies.

For making custom cards, you can try Magic Set Editor http://magicseteditor.sourceforge.net/

Great project, best of luck!

 Littletower wrote:
For making custom cards, you can try Magic Set Editor http://magicseteditor.sourceforge.net/

Great project, best of luck!

I’ll second this. You can just pick a template, drop some art in, and type what you need in the right fields. Very easy learning curve. And you don’t need to mess with getting the formatting just right so everything lines up/prints out OK. I used it to make play aids for 40k for things like chapter tactics, warlord traits, etc.

I think this is a really good idea.

The main point is to get your daughter playing a game and 'reading' from cards. It doesn't matter if the game is the full rules. Make it simple, and build up from that base.

Simplify the AoS rules even further, and create a template for all the unit stats cards. Move, Range, Attack, Save probably is all you need to start with.

For the purpose of making tests and comparisons, you can photocopy bits of artwork out of books. It's fair use.

It's possible to layer artwork in Word or PowerPoints, but a bit clumsy. There are free online packages for image manipulation, like this one.

http://www190.lunapic.com/editor/

Google online image editor for more options.

Good luck!!

If you have MS Office already the easiest thing to do is use Powerpoint. I've made a number of card sets this way. Make each slide a single card, using portrait page layout. They'll look really big which makes layout easy but you need to remember to use large fonts for any numbers you use so they look in proportion to the overall card size. Then just print them as handouts using the 9-up option and they will come out of the printer around normal card size. If you want larger cards which are easier to read use 6-up layout instead.

Thank you everyone, greatly appreciate all your comments.

Will try it out and see how it goes.

This is very similar to what I did for my 40K army because I'm unable to learn stats. If you get some card protectors and punch holes in the top, you can make a little book on a string or keychain of the relevant cards, and also uncouple them to spread out on the table.

Mine are very shonky, but their primary goal is making sure I don't slow down other gamers. You could easily make nicer ones.

When I played D&D with my father and sister a long time ago, my sister had trouble remembering her character's spells. So my father wrote her character's spells on index cards, with the spell name, times per day, and damage it does.

Perhaps something similar could be done here.

Honestly there isn't a lot of reading in WH40K or Magic. Once you learn phases, we do X, or this card does Y then you don't need to read the cards anymore. The reading comes from when an opponent plays a card or you are using a troop that is doing something. As long as it is family and friends, she shouldn't have to read them, just tell her what it does. And what she needs to do.

To help make her own troops make more sense. I'd suggest starting with a skirmish game, WH40K is a bit of a beast early on because there is so much on the table. Skirmish games give a smaller field to worry about and 5-10 miniatures / stats to deal with.

You can use GoogleDocs for free to create tables, shapes, pictures and text to create larger cards to show stats. Download them into a pdf format and put them on an iPad, then she can view them and swipe through them giving her a large display to break down. GoogleDocs likes it when you are sticking to 1-4 pages, anything more and it can tend to be a bit much for it.

You can also use something like lucidpress. This is easier to use in my opinion, but that is only because I use Photoshop. There are basic shapes, layering, that lets me do much more in a grid fashion than I can with GoogleDocs. I can then save them in pdf for a iPad specifically or for print with a bleed.

I create large displays that show pictures, breaks stats down into basics. Phase 1 stats, Phase 2 (depends on the game). That way we can use tokens to track what part of game we're at. This is the movement part, only thing you need to pay attention to is this part. This is shooting, this part matters, etc. My son is autistic so that is what I did to get him into gaming. After a few games he had things memorized, the cards were just for reference or for me to read to make sure we're rolling the right things.

Kill team?

It uses fewer models?

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
This is very similar to what I did for my 40K army because I'm unable to learn stats. If you get some card protectors and punch holes in the top, you can make a little book on a string or keychain of the relevant cards, and also uncouple them to spread out on the table.

Mine are very shonky, but their primary goal is making sure I don't slow down other gamers. You could easily make nicer ones.

My God, Buttery. That is a great idea

Davor, if you tell me what you need to be on a basic unit card I'd be happy to make up a 'basic' AoS template for you in Excel. You'd be able to edit the numbers and add artwork as you saw fit. If you check my sig you'll find examples of what can be done in Excel as far as card making goes.