Organized Play ID Card Feedback

[avagdu]

Note: As this is about the Organized Play ID Card, I'm posting it in the Organized Play boards. If it should be posted elsewhere, please move it to the correct location.

The current Organized Play ID Card is beautiful in its simplicity, but needs some work, especially if you are downloading a sheet of cards for use at a convention or FLGS. Basically, there should be some sort of border around each card, so that you can easily ensure that you are cutting the cards to be the same size. I do not believe that the change would take much to implement, but would have a huge impact on making them easier to use.

I just hit my first nova, and am two tables away from my fourth star, and would love to have the borders available for when I print out my new card.

[TwilightKnight]

There is a [mostly] standardized Avery template for business card sheets. I have asked numerous times over the years to have the ID card sheet modified to fit that format to make it easier on organizers to print and distribute those cards, but it has not been addressed as of yet.

[The Masked Ferret]

I agree on both those ideas. It would also be good to include the URL where people can go to access the Paizo Organized Play site, with that page allowing them to create a Paizo account or add the Organized Play ID to an existing page, as well as be a landing page with new player information and instructions.

[Blake's Tiger]

Glen Parnell wrote:

I agree on both those ideas. It would also be good to include the URL where people can go to access the Paizo Organized Play site, with that page allowing them to create a Paizo account or add the Organized Play ID to an existing page, as well as be a landing page with new player information and instructions.

Aw, man. That would be such a nice feature for new players.

[roll4initiative]

Are we talking about the ID cards that show your name, PFS#, & such? These only print one to a page.

Or the sheet of cards to give to new players to register for PFS?

[Leg o' Lamb]

Bob Jonquet wrote:

There is a [mostly] standardized Avery template for business card sheets. I have asked numerous times over the years to have the ID card sheet modified to fit that format to make it easier on organizers to print and distribute those cards, but it has not been addressed as of yet.

If you have access to Microsoft Publisher, you can create your own business card using logos and images and what not found in the Community resource downloads. You can generally fit ten cards to a page. Publisher is really easy to use; I describe it as the bastard love child of Word and Power Point. If you can make a slide in PP, then you can make a business card in Publisher.

If you personally do not have MS Publisher, try your local friendly library! They probably will. Save your file as a pdf set up to print; take that to your local printer (Hi!) or print at home. Cut them out and there you are! Business cards!

[TwilightKnight]

My comments are in reference to the new player numbers that are generated one sheet at a time not personal business cards. Right now there is no indication of the borders of each card and you have to randomly tear them apart. If they formatted the pdf to the standard Avery business card template, we could print them on perforated card stock business card paper available at most office supply locations. It would also make the card a bit more durable increasing the likelihood the new player will still have it when it is time to register the unique code and assign the related player number. In many cases the current version is lost and the player is forced to get a new number when they register. Thus they lose the reported session/s that were reported from the event where they received the card. Plus it “wastes” a player number.

[The Masked Ferret]

I ask new players to take pictures of their cards now, as soon as they get them. This increases the chance that they will keep the number, as they now have a record somewhere that is not business card sized that they are likely to lose.

This is about the ((approximately)) business card-sized New Player number cards (as Bob says). I would prefer to be able to easily print the cards on... more substantial business card paper. This change will not effect people who want to print on regular paper. The cards can be cut up the same way.

[Tonya Woldridge]

I've forwarded this to the tech team for a feasibility check. Will see what we can do.

[The Masked Ferret]

Tonya Woldridge wrote:

I've forwarded this to the tech team for a feasibility check. Will see what we can do.

Thanks Tonya!

[avagdu]

Christian Dragos wrote:

Are we talking about the ID cards that show your name, PFS#, & such? These only print one to a page.

Or the sheet of cards to give to new players to register for PFS?

I was referring to both, really. Having a border around the single card makes it easier to cut out after printing it (although having your personal card in a sheet to hand out to people as a type of "business card" would be kinda cool, too), and having borders around the new player sheets will make those easier as well. I do like Bob's thought of using the business card templates as the basis, though.

[roll4initiative]

I actually would like to hand out my PFS ID card like a business card as well. Cool.

[R. Sweet]

Christian Dragos wrote:

I actually would like to hand out my PFS ID card like a business card as well. Cool.

I copy/pasted my VO card to a word doc, and adjusted as needed. Seems to be working out.

[Azothath]

Rather than make it complicated, a standard artsy background pdf with the desired proportions for print out could take basic 12-16pt arial/trebuchet text as an overlay similar to the process that is used to watermark downloaded products -or- the text could be added as a printable displayed webpage over the pdf background. Several ways to get there.

free tools; Inkscape, LibreOffice Draw, GIMP, etc.