Day 28: Replacement cards for Avalon Hill’s Gunslinger
Recently I discovered an old Avalon Hill game from 1982, Gunslinger. I’ve played it a few times now with my friends and it’s been great (and I did an episode of my podcast about it). When I found out about it, I didn’t have a copy of the game, but people have helpfully scanned in all the rules, counters, and cards, and we’ve been able to simulate the all-important 108-card deck of Result Cards with computer programs –we’ve tried an Excel spreadsheet macro I got online and a Perl script that I wrote. Both work pretty well, but don’t give the same visceral thrill as drawing a card to see if you hit someone else with your shot.
So, I bought a used copy of the game from eBay, and in our last game, we used the actual result cards. These worked okay, but they’re small cards that are not particularly well-designed. I had already redesigned the action cards, the counters, and the weapon cards, so why not design replacement result cards?
So I’ve now set to out re-create all 108 result cards. Mine are in color and are easier to read than the originals. I don’t have all of them done yet, but here are some of them:
Once the full deck of 108 is complete, I’ll upload it to BoardGameGeek like I did with my action cards, and then I’ll print them all out on cardstock and cut them out for use with my gaming group.
