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Jeff's Custom Wiz-War About Jeff

Wiz-War is copyright 1985 by Jolly Games. This material is posted with Tom Jolly’s explicit Jeff has been playing all sorts of
permission for individual use, but is not to be sold or distributed otherwise. games for decades, and he used to
make lots of paper and electronic
templates, player aids, and much
more. 

Eventually life got busy and he

prioritized actually playing games,
as well as grooming the next
generation of gamers.

You can find him as Grison at

boardgamegeek and heroscapers, or
feel free to send him a note.

OVERVIEW
Like many Wiz-War fans who became frustrated that such a great game was so long out-of-
print, I eventually invested the effort to make my own set. If you can find one, I highly
encourage you to buy the real thing, but if you are desperate for something to tide you
over, feel free to use and/or modify what I’ve done.

Each of the components is described below, and you can download them all individually. If
you prefer, you can also get everything at once by downloading the following file:

All Wiz-War Files (everything below in one zip archive – 25 MB)

BOARDS
I used the standard layouts from the six boards in the 5th edition & expansions, and I added
two original layouts. I printed each of them onto full-page labels , which I then attached to
scrap matte-board. (At 200 dpi the boards will be 7.5″ square, but you can make them
whatever size you like.) I sprayed “Super Grip” on the back to keep them from sliding
around on the table.

Wiz-War Boards (jpg versions – 2 MB)

TOKENS
These were also printed onto full-page labels, then attached to matte-board before being
cut out. (Print them at the same dpi setting you use for the boards.) They are designed to
be used two-sided, so that some tokens (such as the Portcullis) have distinct “open” and
“closed” sides. Of course, you don’t have to use them that way.

Tokens, Auto-Warps and Home Bases (jpg versions – 1.2 MB)

Tokens, Auto-Warps and Home Bases (layered Photoshop – 16 MB)
(allows replacement & editing of tokens, background, shadows, etc.)

CARDS
The following cards are designed to be printed on 2″ x 4″ labels (Avery 5163 or equivalent,
10 labels per sheet) and stuck to something cheap, such as penny-each Magic commons.

You should be forewarned that I’ve rewritten almost all of them to some extent, so they
won’t match the official versions. The only set our group plays with is mine, so making
things consistent and clear for our group eventually became more important than matching
the original text.

Number Cards (pdf)

(print more as needed)
Spell Cards – Basic Set + Expansions 1 & 2 (pdf)
(includes multiples of common cards)
Spell Cards – Additional (pdf)
(one of each; various sources)

Cards last revised: 12-23-2003 (text revisions and several new spells)
 LOM: Line of Motion — a straight line not blocked by obstacles. In general, something must be in
LOS (line of sight) to count as being in LOM. In the case of the Crossbow, for example, a bolt cannot
go through a glass wall, even though an LOS spell could.

SPELL/CARD DATABASE
I keep all this stuff in a Microsoft Access database for easy customization and printing. (If
you don’t have Access, Lindsey reports that the free Open Office database can import the
file as well.)

Wiz-War Database (Access 2000 – 4 MB)

SIMPLE SPELL TABLE

For those seeking just the raw spell data in an editable table:

Spell List (Excel)

Spell List (Tab-delimited Text)

ALTERNATIVES
Kwanchai Moriya has paired my spell cards with his own custom artwork and boards,
creating a single PDF containing the game rules, counters, boards and cards. Check out
Kwanchai’s Wiz War Package at boardgamegeek.com.

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