PnP Wiz-War - Part 4: Finishing touches

In addition to the base game, I also printed out the community expansion. This adds many more cards to play with and lots more tokens to cut out. As of now I have not integrated any of the community expansion cards into my deck. Most of them are on the complex end and many of the basic support cards are missing to make a usable expansion. In particular, number cards (27.5% of the normal deck) and Pick Lock (3%) are not included in the file. I used Ilya's source files to add the community expansion symbol to some number cards and pick lock cards, which will let me tweak the deck. I will probably just select my favorite cards from the community expansion and balance them with numbers, Pick Locks and some other simple cards from the original game after some plays.

For the tokens I followed my previous method. First I pasted one set of each token to a big sheet of matte board.

So Many Tokens...

Once affixed, I sprayed with my ink fixative and allowed it to dry overnight. Then I scored the tokens and cut the outline of each strip and attached the back label, except for the creatures. These I fully cut out because I wanted the creature names to be on the same edge on both sides. With the original game, I could rotate 1/2 the labels before printing in the source files. Unfortunately, I don't have the source files for the full community expansion, which meant I had to do it the old fashioned way. Once the backs were attached, I sprayed them with my ink fixative. Then sliced them apart.

Community Expansion Tokens

This completed all the game components. In addition to the pieces, one also needs the rules. At the time of this post, there isn't a super good version of the rules to print and use. The core rules can be found on at Wiz-War.com along with a good card FAQ. Sadly the formatting on that site sucks. The first few pages of Kwanchai's Wiz War Redesign have the rules from the website formatted nicely. Unfortunately, there have been a few player made updates to clarify the rules. In particular, the distinction between Line of Sight and Line of Movement, which is present on Ilya's redesign, but not in the core rules. So in addition to the core rules, I strongly recommend having Ilya's Quick Reference on hand. It doesn't have the complete rules, but enough to get you started and fill in some of the clarifications to the core rules. I had mine laminated.

Quick Reference & Rules

I also found some great storage options for my copy. At my local hobby store, there was a square box which was perfect dimensions to hold all the boards & warps. I also purchased one of the small plastic dividers for all the different tokens. For the cards, I used one of my Magic: the Gathering boxing I had lying around. This is the complete set.

Completed Set!

One last thing, you will need a 4 sided die to play the game. Every reference in Wiz-War to a die is to a 4 sided die. This can be found at any gaming store.