Anyone know of a good program for this.

I'm planning on making a tabletop playable version of the wargame I'm designing in Blitz so that I can test of game mechanics without actually coding it into the game.

I need to find a software program that will let me create a printable template for my game units(tanks, plane, etc) that have stats on them that are linked to a simple database. These printouts will be cut out and used as game peices on the table/map. I guess this would be similar to printing out Magic: The Gathering cards. There is a basic framework for each card, then the database would hold all the data for the card. The idea is that I want to be able to make changed to each element in the game as fast as posible without manually going through every print element and change the stats on the cards themselves in a program like photoshop.

Any ideas? Hope this made sence.

Some sort of database program with a graphic element... which I know sounds obvious but the Works one I got for free allows you to style and position your textual data output so I guess its "big brother" might do what you desire. And it that's the case then Open Office 2 might do likewise - I'd poke my head over there and have a squiz at its features.

I dont know if this would be any good, its used to make PC versions of Board games: Its free

http://www.vassalengine.org/community/index.php

Cheers

Garion

Duh. Why don't you use Blitz for this? Just create a 3D-window of suitable size, slap some BG-gfx (empty card template made in PS etc), and then render your unit piece on top of it and write stats from your database to the approriate slots and then save a screenshots named suitably. Then print the cards you need. Easy...

Seems like a bit much work for just laying out some graphics, Mustang.

Anyhow, I don't know of a program specifically designed for this. I'd probably use Adobe Illustrator for that...

Publisher ... MS PUB... You use the database to setup each card and just tell PUB the "size" of the address mailing labels and how many per sheet... Don't forget to put a light gray CUT LINE GUIDE around each "label" so you can cut it easier...

Unnerstan???