Don't forget, there is a whole review, let's play and design diary after the zine making part! That's where the real fun begins!

This is such a helpful video! Just want to say Daniel, I really appreciate the accessibility you bring to this hobby that can often times feel so intimidating, and the enthusiam you have for bringing creativity to your own hobby. Started this hobby interested in the standard boss-battler board games, and discovered your channel when League of Dungeoneers caught my eye. ... Months later I'm loving loving the freedom of solo RPGs (working though a solitary Mörk Borg campaign now), homebrewing Dungeon Degenerates, and all the fun small indie RPGs out there than I can work into other games. Wouldn't have thought!

As someone that just purchased a color printer for the holidays, this is perfect timing. I feel like sometimes people take the knowledge for how to do all this for granted, so thanks for taking the time to detail it all out. I know it's a totally separate hobby, but it's so helpful.

Very excited to see your game in action. You’ve got some novel ideas here married with basic mechanics. That’s great. & aside from the production practicalities you mention, I think a zine form of this works conceptually really well.

Thank you so much for this! Essential viewing for us indie-TTRPG players. Love it.

I’ve always used the thin edge of a bone folder for a nice crisp fold. I find it to a bit easier to just hold it in your hand like a butter knife and just scrape it along the fold like you spread butter on your toast. I really want to get a nice printer so I can stop making pricy trips to the copy shop. Thanks for the tips!!

Funny that you and Robs Tabletop World did nearly the exact same videos on print and play games. A few hours apart. Good video on zines, thanks.

Great topic! I had to learn all of this stuff the hard way, and it was a headache! The only point I’d quibble with is advice about printer choice. Color laser printers are not that expensive, and black and white ones are dirt cheap. Toner lasts forever and is cheap if you get a model that supports generics. If you’re printing physical copies, you owe it to yourself to make the text as sharp and readable as possible!

Ooh a bone folder. I inherited a real bone one when I started at my current library. It's my favorite librarian accoutrement.

Thank you so much for this video!

This will go down as one of the legendary dungeon dive videos.

Great video! Thanks for all the useful info on printing, it helped me out heaps!

FYI: Bone folders and made from either bone or plastic. You will need to read the description. I made sure my bone folders are real bone.

If you can afford one, a printer that can duplex 11x17 (tabloid) is awesome. Though, paper can be a bit pricey, especially as gloss or density increase.

Very cool, love these kinds of crafting/making instruction vids for gaming subjects. Really nice showing preparation in a program for planning the printing as not too many creators talk about those details. I lack instruction on that aspect,and really have to put aside some time to study that. My lack of a good printer prevents me from making good products. If i cant make decent looking pages or have images that arent blurry or are so delicate that i get hydrophobic over them, then i wont even go to the trouble. (By the way, Rob Orrin is also doing a presentation currently on making game manuals and books, he does spiral binding usually though. As much as i like the spiral binding production, i dont think i will be buying a spiral cutter binder machine.lol they look expensive. Maybe they arent,i keep forgetting to check) There is one creator that focuses on creating game parts, (i cant think of his name offhand, i will find it and list it here) ... and he talks some about printers but doesn't really show making pages, he just shows the pages and how to preplan your layout on pages to take into consideration cutting out for mounting on cardstock or chipboard. Not really that many detailed game crafting vids on utube. I know of maybe three that have dedicated vids series that detail like how to build game boards and tiles and tokens and how to make your own cards, like professional grade construction. Perhaps only two of those are like really exhaustive coverage that has vids for doing every aspect of making an entire game. Cards wise i think ive found four to six crafting guides. There seems to be more card making vids than any other aspect. Making small books and binding game books is the next larger number of videos, think theres about four or five pretty good ones. I took print shop on highschool and i really liked it as we got to use the big production camera , develop the film and then burn the printing plates and run the big professional printing press and then cut the job and assemble and do the binding. We had great equipment to use.I wanted one of the heavy duty saddle stapling machines like we had. We had nice book binding clamps and presses also. We made a lot of notepads for the school, those ya just had to clamp the pages into the spine painting device. (The colored rubber goop that is painted onto the top edge ,or side edge,to bind the pages together)

Going to be using this video as a reference when I can manage to print my own game that I've been working on. Thanks.

I went down the rabbit hole with book binding, the stitching is very fiddly but it allows you to print much bigger documents, well worth having a go and very satisfying. Loads of tutorial videos on here too. Land of Peril looks great - love the retire NPC/die become a hero mechanic. Can't wait for the full release, insta-buy here :)

Thank you so much for this zine tutorial!

You're the man! Thanks.

the wrinkling at the side comes from the grain of the paper, just something you have to live with making zines 4 pages-up on a letter sized sheet. The grain runs vertically on letter paper, which ends up running horizontally when folded and bound in the center.

Daniel, thanks for thinking out of the box when it comes to topics! I tried doing this with the booklet version of Cairn, and I was losing my mind. I'm going to add this to my favorites.

Hope you carried on the story - love the idea of a village of nomadic blacksmiths!

Thanks for the info on creating zines! Incredibly helpful! I just found out about Procedures... I got it immediately! I reallyblike the no combat aspect of it. I'm not really into combat, so im excited to use this for some world building that isn't combat focused, like for Apothecaria and maybe some other solo ttrpgs.

Daniel, A Land in Peril looks so good! I can't wait to play it and I'm glad I got to see it in action. I really like the mix of narration and gameplay you've created. I also lke that it learns in the direction of having a solid gameplay loop and a clear direction of play. It looks so fun!!

I've been thinking about getting a printer because i prefer physical copies, and this was super useful. Thanks!

This video was great. I loved it.

Happy to see what pritner you use :)

Incredible video. Couldve used this last year when i super goofed trying to print my first zine lol

what a content packed video. loved all of it. and it is further motivating me to try zine binding. Enjoy seeing the development of your game progressing. Thanks!

Hey Daniel. I enjoyed the combination of a how-to and play-thru. The combination of playing the 'zine and your game was perfect. A great melding of the two. When you were playing on the hex map and you ran into those ancient mountains I was thinking perhaps you could have gone back down to where the miners were and aske them to help you through the mountains. Does either the 'zine or your game allow for conversation?

Great video! Curious if you’d be willing to share your Epson settings?

Excellent idea for a video.. Is to much to ask the links to go directly to the materials??

Thanks to your channels I've discovered many fantastic games, no one is talking about( Dungeon Degenerates!) And now i am falling into zines collecting hobby. I've completely fallen into Mork Borg world, and planning to run chatgpt narrative driven solo campaign. Any thoughts on this? Or is it not your way of playing? Also I would love more solo operable horror themed RPG recommendations. Thank Dave!

how do you you print this doublesided?

So is there an "intended" standard(ish) zine size then?