In order to get my nephew and his friend into text adventures, I thought I’d start them off with Wishbringer, but I also figured the feelies were an important part of getting kids “into” the game. So, lacking the official feelies, I decided to manufacture my own.
I gathered images of the envelope, the letter, and the map. Made an image of a foldable version of the envelope in Inkscape, set the letter to a size that would fold and fit into that envelope, fit the map into an 8x11 as well. This produced three PDF files which I then combined into one using pdfunite. I’ve included a link that PDF below. Printing this out will give one a set of things that can be cut, glued (glue stick), and folded. Trimming the white edges off the map makes it look reasonably nice. One might also “distress” the paper. I did not.
Then I printed out the “library book” as two-per-page on 8.5x11, cut, and stapled. One might use needle and thread to do a more “professional” binding, but the stapled version works for the kids to have something to hold and read.
Then, I picked a rock up from the yard to be the “Wishbringer stone.” I could have painted it with glow in the dark paint, but it worked to complete the set well enough.
I thought about making a box to put all the feelies in, but I was ready to get the kids excited about text adventures, so I sat on the couch looking over the feelies.
Boom. They are playing Wishbringer.
Envelope, letter, and map PDF suitable for printing, folding, etc for Wishbringer recreated Feelies