{"id":6663,"date":"2004-08-06T16:03:35","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T23:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/06\/cardboard-heroes.html"},"modified":"2004-08-06T16:03:35","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T23:03:35","slug":"cardboard_heroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/cardboard_heroe.html","title":{"rendered":"Cardboard Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Jackson Games issued various “cardboard heroes<\/a>” — front-back printed pieces of cardboard with figures on them — a decade or two ago, but they never really took off in RPGs vs mini-figs (painted or otherwise). A pity, because they’re a fast and cheap and effective<\/a> way to populate an encounter or a campaign.<\/p>\n

Several months ago I picked up a collection of all the Fantasy CH<\/a>s they’d done, collected and reissued, and they’ve been great. There were promises of Modern CHs being reprinted — both the supers figures they’d once done (which I still have) and varoius mundane soldiers\/police\/crooks\/spies\/civilians that would be so incredibly handy for my current spy campaign.<\/p>\n

Well, at long last the Modern project has an ETA: September<\/a>. Booyah!<\/p>\n

\nUPDATE: And, by coincidence, a pointer<\/a> at Uncle Bear to another fine page<\/a> with a number of similar counters for free (though you have to print them yourself).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Jackson Games issued various “cardboard heroes” — front-back printed pieces of cardboard with figures on them — a decade or two ago, but they never really took off in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4374,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/15\/game_recap.html","url_meta":{"origin":6663,"position":0},"title":"Game recap","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-Sep-03 3:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Friday Margie was off playing D&D. 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