Kindling Conversation Card Template
by ShuffleKit
A free conversation card template for printable conversation starter cards at poker size: questions in five levels, a How to Play card and a matching back. Each question is set large in white on a card of one bold colour, with its level named at the top beside a small flame. Five levels run from Warm up to Go deeper, and the card's colour follows its Level, so a sixth level is one option in a column, not a new design. The How to Play card is charcoal so it never passes for a question. Comes with a twenty-one-card sample deck: twenty questions and the rules, all original.
- Designs
- 3
- Sample cards
- 21
- Card size
- Poker — 2.5 × 3.5 in
- 63.5 × 88.9 mm · 750 × 1050 px at 300 DPI
- Card fields
- Name
- Level
- Steps
Adding a template copies its designs, fields, and sample cards into your own project. Your copy is yours, and later changes by the author never touch it.
What’s in Kindling Conversation Card Template
Three designs: Question Card, How to Play Card and Card Back.
Your cards live in a sheet, one row each, with a column for every field the designs read: Name, Level and Steps. 21 of those rows arrive filled in, so there is something on the design before you type a word.
Read the 21 sample cards
| Name | Level | Steps |
|---|---|---|
| How to play | 1. Shuffle the deck, or sort it by colour and start with Warm up. 2. Take turns drawing a card and reading it aloud. 3. Answer it yourself, or ask anyone at the table. 4. Skip any card you like. Nobody has to say why. | |
| What is the best thing you ate this week? | Warm up | |
| Which song do you never skip? | Warm up | |
| What would your perfect Sunday look like? | Warm up | |
| What did you want to be when you were ten? | Warm up | |
| What smell takes you straight back to being a child? | Look back | |
| Which teacher do you still think about, and why? | Look back | |
| What is the best advice you ever ignored? | Look back | |
| When did you last laugh until you cried? | Look back | |
| If money were no object, where would you live? | Dream | |
| What would you learn if someone gave you a free year? | Dream | |
| What would you like to be known for? | Dream | |
| Describe a trip you have not taken yet. | Dream | |
| What has been on your mind more than usual lately? | Feel | |
| Where do you feel most at ease? | Feel | |
| What small thing always cheers you up? | Feel | |
| What do you wish people asked you about more often? | Feel | |
| What belief have you changed your mind about? | Go deeper | |
| What do you need more of right now? | Go deeper | |
| What are you proud of that nobody knows about? | Go deeper | |
| What question would you most like to be asked today? | Go deeper |
How to play conversation starter cards
- Shuffle the deck, or sort it by colour and start with Warm up.
- Take turns drawing a card and reading it aloud.
- Answer it yourself, or ask anyone at the table.
- Skip any card you like. Nobody has to say why.
Printing at poker size
Poker: 2.5 × 3.5 in, 63.5 × 88.9 mm, 750 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI.
On the Hobby plan, export a print-ready PDF with bleed and cut lines. PNG and SVG come out at the same size, which is what Tabletop Simulator wants. On Indie, send it to a print-on-demand partner through Print & Ship.
A printer asks for an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge on top of those numbers, so this card goes out as 825 × 1125. The export adds it. Let the artwork run into the bleed and keep the text inside the cut line, and nothing arrives trimmed.
Questions about Kindling Conversation Card Template
Everything you need to know before getting started.
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What are conversation starter cards?
A deck of questions you draw at random to get people talking: at dinner, on a date, at the start of a team meeting or a workshop. Kindling's twenty sample questions come in five levels, Warm up, Look back, Dream, Feel and Go deeper, and each level has its own colour, so a group can start light and choose when to go further.
Can I make my own printable conversation cards?
Yes. Type your questions into the sheet, one row per card, and give each a Level; the card takes that level's colour. Add a sixth level by adding an option to the Level column. Then export a print PDF on the Hobby plan, print it double-sided on card stock and cut along the crop marks.
What happens when I add Kindling Conversation Card Template to a project?
The three designs, the three fields and the 21 sample cards are copied into a project of yours, with the fields already pointed at the design. Nothing stays linked to this page afterwards, so the author's later edits never reach your copy.
What size does Kindling Conversation Card Template print at?
Poker size: 2.5 × 3.5 in, 63.5 × 88.9 mm, 750 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI. Those are the numbers to hand a print shop, and the ones to check a sleeve against.
Is Kindling Conversation Card Template free?
Yes. Adding it, editing it, filling it with your own cards and playtesting it online are all free. Exporting print files starts on the Hobby plan, and Print & Ship through The Game Crafter is on Indie. No template sits behind a paid plan.
Can I change the designs?
Yes. They land in your project as ordinary layouts, so you can drag an element somewhere else, put your own art behind the frame, restyle the type or rename a field. Edit a design once and every card on it follows.
Can I use my own cards instead of the samples?
Yes — the samples are rows in a sheet, and they are there to be overwritten. Type over them, add rows of your own, or bring a CSV and match its headers to the fields.
Can I sell a conversation deck made with Kindling Conversation Card Template?
Yes. This one is ours, and you keep commercial rights to what you build from it, crowdfunding and retail included.
Ready to make your own conversation deck?
This template is free, and so is the editor it opens in.