Coincidentally...
Sep. 12th, 2025 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffuturesI've been thinking about the "Dad's Dragons" RPG thing, and by chance I found a pack of cards in a charity shop today - each card has a teeny reproduction of a WW2 poster on it, e.g. the classic "Be like dad - keep mum". About 40 are relevant to Britain at the beginning of WW2, the rest are on similar American themes.
My idea is to give each player three cards, and let them play one if the situation seems relevant, with a -1 or -2 modifier on the difficulty of whatever they're doing; -1 for a bit relevant, -2 for very relevant.
I paid a couple of pounds for them - if anyone else wants a set they were sold by British Heritage ltd. - looks like they're no longer in production, but there is someone selling them on eBay (for a lot more) if anyone wants to know what they're like:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145239451112
There are probably other ways to get similar images e.g. from art books such as these:
https://www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/Product/Slocombe-Richard/British-Posters-of-the-Second-World-War/8659133
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/365369778921
Just bought the second of these since it's pretty cheap.
Update 15th September - the second book has arrived and is VERY good and remarkably cheap, new A4-format paperback with 20 pages of intro and 45 pages of colour posters for £3.67, definitely worth having for scene setting for anything set in WW2 Britain.
My idea is to give each player three cards, and let them play one if the situation seems relevant, with a -1 or -2 modifier on the difficulty of whatever they're doing; -1 for a bit relevant, -2 for very relevant.
I paid a couple of pounds for them - if anyone else wants a set they were sold by British Heritage ltd. - looks like they're no longer in production, but there is someone selling them on eBay (for a lot more) if anyone wants to know what they're like:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145239451112
There are probably other ways to get similar images e.g. from art books such as these:
https://www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/Product/Slocombe-Richard/British-Posters-of-the-Second-World-War/8659133
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/365369778921
Just bought the second of these since it's pretty cheap.
Update 15th September - the second book has arrived and is VERY good and remarkably cheap, new A4-format paperback with 20 pages of intro and 45 pages of colour posters for £3.67, definitely worth having for scene setting for anything set in WW2 Britain.
