I Almost Burned My House Down Making These D&D Handouts!

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Watch me try out a bunch of different techniques for creating handouts that look like aged and weathered paper for D&D handouts!
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00:00 - Intro
01:50 - Finding and Creating Handouts
07:31 - Printing on White Paper
08:47 - Printing on Resume Paper
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11:56 - Testing Different Methods for Aging Paper
19:48 - Reviewing the Results
22:25 - Trying Again
27:00 - Nostalgia
28:21 - Outro
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@SupergeekMike 3 месяца назад

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@FreelancerLA 3 месяца назад

For affordable printing, check out your local libraries too. I work at a library and the majority of my session handouts and notes are printed at work for little to no cost.

@ani_anonymuncle 3 месяца назад

Yes!! So much cheaper than any store around you, and the funds will go to a good cause. Also also, hanging around a printer at the library waiting for fresh copies of elvish scrawls is actually a reliable way to meet more people who play D&D.

@mysticwizard4286 3 месяца назад

The Bob cameo was great, I really enjoy his videos as well.

@ak318 3 месяца назад

One thing I always do is if I make a handout in my own handwriting or in fonts with a hand written style, I always make sure to have a type out clear format document version usually in Arial font that I can hand to players if they are having issues reading it. So they can have the high immersion version but also I have a version that is accessible for ppl.

@SomethingWellesian 3 месяца назад

I was gonna suggest the same thing-this is what I do for my players (handout in foundry, text in Discord). But the low-intelligence barbarian likes to read the fancy font versions because he feels like it’s in character😁

@katharinameinzer6297 3 месяца назад

This is good advice! Especially for the non English natives out here: being a dictionary with you, or look up fancy words before gaming night! Will save you a few minutes

@jl1566 3 месяца назад

My DM does this at well and it is incredibly helpful! The fancy one is so fun for the gameplay immersion experience but is sometimes hard to comprehend or skim for quick reference. Always so grateful to have both versions! 🥺💕

@macfoster866 3 месяца назад

Black adder is a font that is SUPER readable and looks great as hand writing.

@nblank 3 месяца назад

im running a one shot for a new player in literally an hour and was looking for a font like this, thanks!

@notanotaku1101 3 месяца назад

Oh thanks! I love the idea of giving my players something that looks handwritten, I'll definitely check it out!

@thystldown 3 месяца назад

I was very much a kid who messed around with aging paper and making “old” documents, so this video gave me so much nostalgia. All these methods were very familiar, as were the varied results, haha. I used to love getting super specific with things, like making a coffee mug circle stain on a map that would have been sitting on someone’s desk or folding up a letter and staining it in a baggy to simulate getting dropped in the mud before it got delivered - if you end up doing more experimentation, that kind of thing might be fun to try

@gatb4387 3 месяца назад

Love Bob's commentary and shock during your attempts 😂

@Inuvash255 3 месяца назад

Back when I did this, I did three things different: 1. I used cardstock, which gave the paper a bit more constitution. 2. I did the tea-soak method, but part of my method was crumpling up the map first so it had natural dark/light spots. 3. I used a much darker/concentrated tea mixture.

@LordJazzly 3 месяца назад

Also, if you make the tea using tea-bags, you can dangle the used bag over the paper and squeeze tea dregs out of it to create stains and spatter-marks. Or drag the whole thing over the page to create streaks of different colour, for a pseudo-papyrus look.

@manueltorresart2345 3 месяца назад

Two things I must, say. Man, the level of preparation and love for your players, they're going to love these (except the oven, the oven is going to remember this like a Telltale game). Second, Iban Coello is so good, that cover for the Marvel game is great.

@MagiofAsura 3 месяца назад

I wish my players would appreciate things like this. My irl group is so low effort when interacting with my games to the point it's demoralizing.

@manueltorresart2345 3 месяца назад

@@MagiofAsura I?m sorry to read that. Perhaps start not give them anything and maybe they'll start noticing??

@user-eg2gz9jo8w 3 месяца назад

I actually only use tea and just let like 20 sheets of paper and let them soak and cook them 5 at a time for however long you want. For extra effects, you can dab the tea bags on the paper. and for text I have a functioning type writer so I use it whenever I can to give it a classy feel

@Zoe_A_MacDonald 3 месяца назад

I haven't had occasion to do it in my campaigns yet, but I've previously had the idea of printing off a menu handout and then just... keeping it under/near my plate while I eat for a few days, occasionally dab some food on it, rest my mug on it, etc. Some might call this too much effort but too much effort is the definition of my campaigns lmao

@DarcOne13 3 месяца назад

Yes, do it! So cool!

@skylark7921 3 месяца назад

I used sfx blood on a letter that the other members of my party might read should my character ever die…. Too much effort is a nonsensical phrase in my book lol

@michaelyoung7261 3 месяца назад

Thought on the journal handout. Have the handwritten version that you hand over, and a skill check available with typed up version to be handed over on a success on the check

@angelusdemorte3 3 месяца назад

I always say "Time is a Weird Soup" on Live-Streams whenever time not being real is brought up... Love ya Mike!

@steegen101 3 месяца назад

an NPC of mine once said "time is a wet branch" as improv nonsense. players loved that

@DrumDudeMatt 3 месяца назад

I've done this a few times in school, and I do love giving my players some physical props from time to time. The pages themselves can tell a story. Paint your finger lightly with red and leave a bloody finger print. Adding a tear hole in the top of the WANTED posters so it looks like someone ripped it off of a post. A way to keep things cheaper with the colour print outs is to print most things in black and white and reserve the colour stuff for something a noble would have paid a lot for. Pigments are expensive, and if the owner was willing to invest that into a page, or a map, they'd probably use the more expensive paper as well. Hell, even a watercolour page with a drawing and watercolour paints about a legendary object of ancient tales or a fatal flower that incriminates them for a murder on a page ripped out of their tome. There's so much fun stuff to be done.

@Tamashikiri 3 месяца назад

You talking about the iffier implications of the orc reward paper as presented in the original adventure made me think about my own long-on-hiatus Phandelver game set in my post-apocalyptic homebrew setting. In my version, the main conflict is less a "taming the savage frontier" deal, as the party's Waterdeep benefactors and the orc/goblinoid forces in the region are both remnants of the two competing superpowers whose war caused the magical apocalypse, each trying to rebuild their influence in the region while preventing the other from doing the same, with the people of Phandalin caught in the middle. With that reframing of the adventure's core concept in mind, a more palatable context for the orc reward poster kind of writes itself: the players are looking at in-universe propaganda.

@ani_anonymuncle 3 месяца назад

The confused but earnest craft energy of this video is giving off such pure Dad Vibes. You'll be ready.

@TheLordofMetroids 3 месяца назад

I honestly love me mechanical handouts because of one campaign i ran where I was messing with players memory. Being able to reach into the "handwritten note," and alter it was amazingly useful for running the campaign i had planned.

@mattball8622 3 месяца назад

Back when I was growing up in the nineties, I remember a school project where I used a mixture of tea and a lighter to make a treasure map. This video just unlocked some core memories.

@tonysladky8925 3 месяца назад

Man, I've never gone this far, but this is totally making me want to run something that uses handouts next time I run a campaign. It's definitely making me think about, like, a Weird West genre game with a bunch of Wanted Posters. I'd also had a vague idea about sticking a specialized map in each of the adventuring packs that are available in the PHB, which both sounds awesome as someone who likes worldbuilding and making maps and filling my worlds with weird esoteric details that the players will never care about as nuxh as I do, but also like a lot of work just to include weird, esoteric details to my world that my players will never care about as much as I do.

@bol.1615 3 месяца назад

Just an FYI, i don't know if it would affect your game or not, but I think having Gundrens map be TO Wave Echo Cave, instead OF Wave Echo Cave is more useful narratively. Hope this is helpful. If not no worries. Love the video! Glad your house is still standing!

@zetsubou1v1 3 месяца назад

One thing i'd suggest trying is putting baking parchment on the pans. It could help with sticking and should be good for multiple uses- it may help with the branded pan too

@gatb4387 3 месяца назад

Mike, your chosen fonts/handwriting are so aesthetically on point for my style! 🤩

@bristowski 3 месяца назад

This is a good channel. I like Mike.

@dragondude8396 3 месяца назад

I like these techniques. My personal favorite though I had to use on a 2x3’ map of Middle Earth. I wadded and crinkled it i to. Tore the edges. Then laid it out on trash bags and sprayed a mixture of coffee all across it. Spraying a little more in the ridges darkened it up some. Then you can rub some small holes in the middle and give it a day or two to dry. Came out fantastic. Mounted it on a large board and now have it hanging in my bedroom

@ivanheffner2587 3 месяца назад

Interesting to see your Misadventures in Weathering Paper. You might be interested in scouring Adam Savage’s Tested channel for more weathering techniques. He’s done some show-and-tell and one-day-build videos both talking about processes and demonstrating some of the techniques he’s used in his prop replications. He’s really into old books, or new things that look like old books. Someone else mentioned using a spray bottle. This is definitely a good idea. Also flicking a paint brush dipped in coffee or tea can add a lot of interest. And if you want to go super fancy: airbrushing. And you can use the airbrush to paint maps, minis, terrains, etc. We all know how much time you’re going to have come summer time. 😂😂😂

@mayapplesauce1396 3 месяца назад

i use to do all of this coffee and tea shenanigans but now i just use watercolor paint, it's way easier and since you mix up the colors each time you make a new batch of handouts, there will be a lot of variations in the different sheets (i also let them dry for hours/days and never thought about using an oven hahaha i'll try that next time!)

@jordanforberg4384 3 месяца назад

I loved Bob’s cameos!!

@PocketKanin 3 месяца назад

21:43 okay but like that actually looks really cool, as long as the name/logo aren’t eyecatching enough to take your players old of the world i think that looks cool as a well used map. after a while you get careless of how close you put things next to edges. 23:04 that actually looks cool af, maybe they’re in the fire realm or those lines of extreme heat, or maybe it was close to such powerful/old magic that it deeply burned the paper

@Jeezusehchrist 3 месяца назад

Great video Mike! Love the BtWB cross over. I’d love to see a little more stuff like this in the channel

@lukerabon7925 3 месяца назад

Even with nuance i think removing the orcs is a good call. There's already a couple optional quests and most of those link back to the main plot. The orcs, though, involve going on one of the longer in-game treks across the map and there's no moving anything forward; you fight a few orcs and head back to town to get paid. I've also noticed players tend to forget about or ignore the quest, possibly because it involves the Townmaster Harbin, who is kind of a useless coward and the players I've had all tend to ignore him after talking to him for the first time

@mystic-malevolence 3 месяца назад

Might try taking a mug of coffee, spilling a bit over the side, then resting the mug on the page--to get that crescent or ring shaped coffee stain.

@SilverBolt1159 3 месяца назад

I made a character journal with aged/distressed pages, turned out great! My method wasn't too different, but without any fire hazards I started with parchment paper since having the page already textured & colored makes the process faster. I used the coffee stain method, but first I crumpled up the pages. It made the stain more naturally uneven, added damage, and made each page unique. Definitely do not to put the pages in the oven while in still in the liquid! Just dip or soak them in a dip pan/bowl, then transfer to a baking pan lined with foil/parchment. You only need to bake for a few minutes on the lowest heat setting of the oven to dry them out.

@k3rvyn 3 месяца назад

I laughed so hard this video. My wife would be so pissed when I would block the kitchen the whole day to make some stained paper handouts. And it is so funny to see someone to carefully water the handouts. Thanks a lot for this video. I also would be way to Scrooge McDuck to have the oven run for $TIME to create those. Do you think putting it on a laundry rack would work?

@Dalenthas 3 месяца назад

Very cool handouts! Great example of why I love in person games more than online games.

@dolphin64575 3 месяца назад

In undergrad I used the coffee dip method for an english class poster project and the professor liked it so much she asked to keep my poster to show future students. (The picture in picture soy sauce bits are amazing)

@browsedarius3072 3 месяца назад

Hello, first off love your content and I got super excited when I saw you picked up the Marvel Rulebook. Would love to see to see a video on how how to adapt DnD knowledge to a system like that. Keep doing you, you're killing it

@bencarter1646 3 месяца назад

Great video Mike, many congrats on your upcoming new arrival. Two thoughts from me: recycled printer paper seems to take up staining liquids really well; and red food colouring mixed with cocoa powder makes for good blood stains!

@thactotum 3 месяца назад

instant coffee works well, very nearly like water color. you can control the darkness with water ratio. and if you use a spray bottle to spray a second round after the first drying, and redry, it can give a nice 'texture' to the coloring.

@jinxphantomhive5145 3 месяца назад

Loving all the helpful advice videos. They really help my ability to run the game. Honestly a modern MattC

@monkeyman3194 3 месяца назад

That Ryan George reference was “super easy, barely an inconvenience”

@coolgreenbug7551 3 месяца назад

Wow wow wow wow wow

@DarcOne13 3 месяца назад

I lovee my Nordicware pans!

@Dalenthas 3 месяца назад

One or two chapters past the Lost Mine part of Phandelver and Below so this is good timing!

@audreyb1269 3 месяца назад

These handouts do look pretty cool! I didn't know the soy sauce technique. For the tea, I think you should try again but make it wayyyy darker. Your tea here looked very clear compared to the coffee and soy sauce. Make sure you use black tea, your water has boiled and let it brew for as long as it takes to be dark brown (I let it for between 7 to 10mn). You need it to be packed with tannin. Then let your paper soak for about 15mn (just covered in liquid, not bathing), no need for an oven. You can either let it air dry, or another way is with a hair dryer (although this one might give a different texture to the paper). Another option is balsamic vinegar, which tends more toward the yellowish tint than brown. Thanks for that very fun video!

@OccidentalAvian 3 месяца назад

Wasn't Gundren's map a map TO Wave Echo Cave, not OF the cave? That's the whole reason he was kidnapped in the first place, the Black Spider needed to know where it was.

@ken.droid-the-unique 3 месяца назад

Dude you're awesome. So glad that you're getting some recognition around the community. Here's a cookie for the algorithm.

@SupergeekMike 3 месяца назад

Thank you!

@Wipomatic 3 месяца назад

I literally started a new lost mine of Phandelver campaign last week, so this is quite good timing, but unfortunately it's online, lol. The resources for handouts can work really well online too though, thank you! :D

@gsfjohndoe 3 месяца назад

One tip: if you want paper to have somewhat distressed edges but not 'torn-distressed', take a sharp knife and run its sharp edge along the edge of the paper. Go back and forth until you've achieved the amount of distress you want. Additionally, somewhat crumpling it before soaking it can create an interesting effect. Avoid your cooking sheet brand by just lining it with tinfoil

@graywulf19 3 месяца назад

These are all really cool ideas, but I wonder if you need to bake them at all. Would it work to brush or soak the paper in whichever ingredient and then just let it dry? Also 18:36 - puppy!

@mkang8782 3 месяца назад

I haven't played an in person game since just prior to the pandemic. If I ever get a chance to DM in person again, I may give this a try.

@zefiewings 3 месяца назад

fun experiments!

@BlackOpMercyGaming 3 месяца назад

I still can’t believe you have 40,000 subscribers… your quality matches that of any number of million+ channels…. I forget that this channel is just a fun little secret between a “few” friends lol

@SupergeekMike 3 месяца назад

Thank you!!

@BramTheMellertGuy 3 месяца назад

A really good way to distress with coffee is to use wet grounds and just rub it all over the paper. If you have enough, bury the paper in them and let it sit for a while. For the edges, I recommend using a lighter to carefully burn them off.

@RequiemWraith 3 месяца назад

I quite enjoy 'hand written' handouts, but to avoid the issues with illegible writing, I use an online generator to make something look handwritten. Has the desired effect but remains totally readable.

@beegborg3303 3 месяца назад

Soak a clump of steel wool in black coffee an lightly scrub the paper in the patterns you want the stains to form

@ilmari1452 3 месяца назад

Some interesting results! Seeing this makes me miss running in-person games. With the soy sauce method, I would assume that using watery, savory Japanese soy sauce (as opposed to thick, sweet ketjap manis) would make it less sticky?

@5daboz 3 месяца назад

You could help yourself with a ruler. Also, paper that is soaked is easier to tear apart, but on the other hand, it is also easier to ruin the entire paper. Maybe just soak the edges you want to roughen up?

@PVS3 3 месяца назад

Grab a cheap spray bottle from the cleanser aisle at the local Buy-mart. Might make your process easier.

@ZarHakkar 3 месяца назад

27:44 Ohohoho, if you think you both don't have time to play D&D _now..._ Trust me, when the baby is here, count yourselves lucky if you regain equilibrium in 12 years.

@thunderflare59 3 месяца назад

If you're into supporting independent TTRPG content, might I suggest looking into Why Slay Dragons When You Could Be Fishing?

@BobWorldBuilder 3 месяца назад

Thanks for giving me a chance to defend the soy sauce method, Mike! I’ll admit though, I used a different brand this time that was less watery than in my original video, and I don’t think it came out quite as well. So yes, you only ever need a little soy sauce, but apparently not all soy sauces will behave the same way.

@LordJazzly 3 месяца назад

My dude! If you're aging paper with tea stains, you usually use a black tea, like an Assam or Ceylon tea. Green and black teas have similar levels of tannins, which is the important thing if you're using tea as a cheap way to preserve something against fungus or bacteria in warm climates, but if you're trying to make something look old on purpose, black tea releases a lot more pigment into the water, which in turn gives you a lot more stain on your paper.

@LordJazzly 3 месяца назад

(That said, I do love the quiet chaos of all of these methods)

@Stephen-Fox 3 месяца назад

While probably not relevant for running a module, have you/would you ever do physical puzzles? I know Seth Skorkowsky's mentioned handing his players a puzzle box when their characters encounter a puzzle box in one of his videos before, and I'm wondering if you've had success with that sort of thing? If you're looking for indie game recommendations since you're wanting to buy indie stuff when you spend money on WotC products; I've been having a lot of fun with Animon Story lately (think the Digimon anime as a TTRPG), and also with Microscope (A GMless game of non-linear world-building).

@morganmcinroy4211 3 месяца назад

I love drawing art of my npcs for my in-person games

@RyanZibell 3 месяца назад

Can we put a clip of Ryan George in this episode? Oh yeah, super easy, barely an inconvenience

@joaquinceriani5033 3 месяца назад

I also tried BWB soy sauce technique, I think soy sauce is great but mine makes an awful smell, it might be the low sodium or something else entirely, idk. What soy sauce did you use? Do you know the sauce BWB used? Great video!

@ferowyn11 2 месяца назад

so... how hungry is smelling those soy sauce papers at your table gonna male you? 😅 😂

@player_lorde5078 3 месяца назад

More vídeos about shadowdark please

@SupergeekMike 3 месяца назад

Got another one coming out in a couple of weeks :)

@dorothymccomb2244 3 месяца назад

You think you're going to have time or energy to play with a new baby in the house? Oh, you sweet summer child ...

@TheLordofMetroids 3 месяца назад

Related video idea for handouts, minis, any recommend for minis? Personally I just use GW stuff, but thats because half my group also plays Warhammer, the average player SHOULD NOT be buying expensive Warhammer minis for a tabletop game.

@chrismckenzie3414 3 месяца назад

If you're looking to save money on printing, see if your local library offers free printing with a library card. Not every public library does, but it can't hurt to ask.

@armorclasshero2103 3 месяца назад

coffee brews or steeps

@agentwillsells 3 месяца назад

If you can be bothered. Please make a "that is too much tea" merch t-shirt.

@MagiofAsura 3 месяца назад

Protip for people who like to print a lot of anything. Get an inktank printer. They are expensive upfront but save in the long run. Instead of cartridges, they have tanks for each color that is filled with ink. My hp smarttank printer came with 2 years worth of ink which i used within a year with how much volume i print personally. Each bottle is $16 per color officially. Off brands inks are $22 for all ink colors.

@coolgreenbug7551 3 месяца назад

The clickbait sounding title and the subject of the video make the whole thing have this dramatic irony lurking doom feel

@sigfriedguigerlich6386 Месяц назад

'Promo sm'

@RottenRogerDM 3 месяца назад

curse of strahd has terrible hand written handouts. After the first one, my players demanded a regular typed font. I think it was Arial, or Times New Roman. Give your players a sample first.

@RottenRogerDM 3 месяца назад

handouts are one set of props which scratch the different creative itches of dms. How much work is up to you the creator and the amount of feedback pleasure loop you get back from the players. For my very causal Adventure League group, i just burn off 3 to 5 copies of the player handouts. For other groups I will spend more time and money. Suggestion and this depends on the various factors such as time, cost, and wall space. Print off the adventurers map or use the one given. When the campaign is complete, have the players sign their PCS names to the map and frame it. Also take a group photo and put in the frame too.