Piece Making

Okay, this is a trick that Joseph uses with his characters. All you need is cardboard, scissors, glue, paper, masking tape, a pencil, and color pencils.

First, you need to cut out three pieces of cardboard, two of them 1/2 an inch tall and 1 inch wide (`1.3 centimeters tall and 2.5 centimeters wide) and the other one 1 inch tall and 1 inch wide (2.5 centimeters tall and 2.5 centimeters wide.) Then, put these pieces aside.

Second, make a cardboard cutout 1 2/3 of an inch tall, and 1 1/3 wide (4.2 centimeters tall and 3.4 centimeters wide.) Now, trim the edges so that it is round. Then, trace that cardboard cutout on a piece of paper. Cut out that piece of paper. Now here's the part it gets a little tricky.

Now, there are two things you can do. If you are a good artist, draw what you think your character would look like. If you're not, we don't blame you. You can trace a small person with your computer, or something else, maybe. Color it in, and if you want, you can color in a background, too. Now glue the paper to one side of the cardboard cutout you made in the paragraph that started with the word "Second."

Lastly, take the cutout with the picture and put it in the middle of the 1 inch by 1 inch (2.5 centimeters by 2.5 centimeters.) '''DO NOT TAPE OR GLUE IT!!! '''Now, take one of the small pieces and put it on one side of your picture. Tape that piece to the 1 x 1 (2.5 x 2.5) piece (we'll just call that the base.) THen, do the same on the other side. You know have a player token and a complete base. you can take out that token and put in a new one any time.

Note: Always grip the base, not the token because if you grip he token, it will come out of the base.

The story behind this story is actually one of Joseph and William's misadventures. Basically, Joseph and William were playing KOTOR. Joseph had two characters, one of which had a plastic base, the other one had a play-doh one. (NOT RECOMMENDED!) The one broke, and Joseph was running out of ideas. Then, he spotted it - cardboard, scissors, and masking tape. He then made this base (without even measuring) and then measured it later.