Hey, gang! It’s been a few months, so it was only a matter of time before my thoughts returned to StarSpeed.

This week, TheGameCrafter sent out an email announcing a new component, the Postcard Mat. This 4×6 mat, they say, is perfect for player reference cards and such. As is typical when I get these emails from TGC, I started to consider how I might use this new component in my own game. The obvious answer to me was to replace the Racer Dashboards with these cards – 4×6 is already a bit larger than what I’d been planning to use. Also the fact that it wouldn’t be a custom laser-cut component meant I’d be saving quite a bit of production cost. So I started thinking about the rest of the components.