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Often TTRPG players only write down items on their character sheet. Cards have many advantages: easier to read, you can pass them back and forth, and they are nicer to look at. The example above shows a card for Mothership, which was printed on-demand.

Examples

A card:

card: sk 109 seeker

A message:

message: you are infected with ZAR-X-120!

Technical Details

This is how this works:

Hardware

We use a PeriPage A6 Mini. It is rather cheap thermal printer, and you can easily find new paper supply for it. You also need a laptop.

Software

You find all the software in https://codeberg.org/crepererum/ttrpg-card. Here is how this works:

  • rendering: The cards are described in YAML and an optional image. They are rendered to PNG via typst.
  • interface: We use peripage-python to connect from a laptop to the printer via Bluetooth and print out the image.