4e Fan Creations and House RulesWorking on variant powers? Statting up a PC race or your version of a monster? Creating or converting an adventure? Put it here!
I love the cards but I must agree. If you did this with completely new powers of your own creation then you could sell them under the GSL. Now is not the time to rock the boat or muddy the waters espcially since the Fansite policy is still in its infancy.
Inspired by popular demand I’ve decided to take my community service one step further.
Having access to a professional cardstock printer I’ve decided to print complete decks of power cards on glossy card stock and mail them to everyone interested!
Yes, you heard me!
I will be printing and mailing complete decks of Power Cards!
I'm happy to offer this service and truly hope everyone has the oportunity to play with printed power cards. Power Cards have made playing Dungeon and Dragons so much funner I really couldn't resist sharing!
(This is a non-profit venture; the minimal costs serve to cover ink/cardstock & shipping)
While I can appreciate entrepreneurship I think wotc would have issues about this.
1:The card design is a slightly modified version of their existing cards so some copyright issues would exist there. Be very careful about this. You list a creative commons license that you use the design through... but does wotc agree to it because I dont think you can put someone elses ideas there and say its open to use.
2: Is the flavor text of each power open to use or just the mechanic? You say in your disclaimer that its copyright by wotc. Have they agreed to let you use it because again this seems to go beyond the just released license.
3: To be a non profit organization you have to get a license. Its more than just say "I dont make money". Plus you list cutting as part of the fee. That would be a labor charge. Every service industry would be non profit by that definition.
Not trying to derail you. I like to see people get excited about the hobby and act on ideas. Just be very careful about this and I would contact wotc about this.
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While I can appreciate entrepreneurship I think wotc would have issues about this.
1:The card design is a slightly modified version of their existing cards so some copyright issues would exist there. Be very careful about this. You list a creative commons license that you use the design through... but does wotc agree to it because I dont think you can put someone elses ideas there and say its open to use.
they have magic cards and the software of choice for making the power cards is the Magic Set Editor which you can use to make card templates and the such.
Has anyone created power cards for the new Illusion spells released by WotC last night?
Done. I've posted them, as well as the complete set of Heroic Tier cards in pdf format on the Dragon Avenue forums. (They allow for larger files sizes to be uploaded, otherwise I'd also post them up here.) They're a different style than what a lot of others are doing, and they're not for those who are concerned with liberal usage of ink from their printers. Check a few pages back on this thread where I had previewed a few before.
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Does wotc make power cards? no. Many other cards yes. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mi/20080124a
Not an exact copy but they are pretty darn close. Enough to be an issue? I dont know I'm not educated in copyright laws but I'm also not the one trying to sell the cards. Given the current examples of the cease and desist order from Fantasy Grounds for a similar issue this isnt exactly a joke to ignore.
Even if the cards are 100% original design they still contain content that isn't legal to use without permission to do so and selling them is a bad idea in general unless you have that permission.
I apologize if this has already been asked and answered, but I'm reading this on my breaktime at work and, well, long thread is loooonng.
Regarding Ander00's cards and MSE, the encounter and daily banner colors are hard to tell apart at a glance when printed in greyscale. (At-will and item might have a similar issue, but I haven't checked and the card formats are different enough anyway). Is there a way to change the style definitions (or whatever) to make for greater contrast? Or rather, I assume there is, but can anyone tell me how? I couldn't find it in the program itself, and the documentation on the MSE site is (to be diplomatic) lacking.
What we're doing with the cards, BTW, is exporting images from MSE, pasting them into an OpenOffice template, and printing them to Avery "name badge" cardstock. It's 2.25 by 3.5 inches, the closest we could find to standard game card size (2.5 by 3.5), and saves us the hassle of manually cutting them out.
I still wish someone made actual 2.5 by 3.5 perforated cardstock; there's gotta be a market for it.
I had similar thoughts. Still, I'd love to see more services like this.
Maybe you could present it as (say) $5 for time/materials, and $5 for shipping/handling. The card designs themselves are freely available for anyone that wishes to do it themselves (and you could even provide links to them)... so you could merely be providing some paypal links for common, pre-estimated requests.
This could also allow you to print out different types of cards for people (maybe even taking special requests).
I'm gonna add those once I have some time on my hands. I am really stressed out at the moment though and will be for the rest of the week.
For the people interested in cards for Second Wind and such, I guess I can then add those as well, even though I wouldn't use them myself.I'm not following. If you came here late and just grab the latest set, what is there to compare against? I can see where specific information about fixes would be nice though. I'll keep that in mind for future updates.
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Thank you THANK YOU for the cards, they're great. I'm back into D&D as of Father's Day, haven't played in almost 20 years. I'm teaching my kids and these cards are great. I was actually about to post a question to you about cards for Feats and things like Second Wind - ie. the Dwarven Fighter I have rolled up has the Power Attack feat and it'd be great to have a card with that info as an example.
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Just wanted to thank everyone for all the creativity. I am so motivated right now!!!
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For the time being, tho, I think the name badges will do the job. They're only a quarter inch narrower, and easier/cheaper to replace. We'll probably be printing cards as needed for each character, even when duplicating ones already used by someone else.
Also, I tried exporting images in "plain" style, and I think they look better that way in greyscale. Encounter and daily powers are easier to distinguish, and it just looks cleaner without the shadow effects. The regular style looks great... in full color. In greyscale, OTOH, I think the cleaner look is better. Thanks for including it.
On the topic of the symbols, I probably would've used one for action type and one for cooldown, but that's just me.
EDIT: Eventually I figured out that the upper-right symbols are based on the ones used for powers in the monster stat blocks. So that makes more sense now.
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Also, I tried exporting images in "plain" style, and I think they look better that way in greyscale.
I was justy checking out the images, and some of them were still in "default" style with the shading. I checked them out in MSE, and they still display the shading even when set to "plain" style. Acid arrow is the first one I notice when looking at the thumbnails, but there's others. When I go into the style page on another card, uncheck "options specific to this card" and switch the look to plain, it changes most but not all of the cards to match. What gives?
Ok, try these on for size. We've got an experiment with a long power (Bigby's, as requested), and then versions with the new action symbols in the bubble. You can imagine the top ones without the colour in the bubble, if you wish.
Note that I've removed the power source notch from the bottom ones, and left the action in. I've done that to clarify action type, and because space is low and power source doesn't actually matter.
So, a new round of opinions!
Troll and all,
I think these are totally awesome (yes I'm from the '80's.). But I was wondering if you had a magic card set editor template file or can easily make on for those of use like me that are not that graphically design talented.
Because I'm inspired to work on sets for all my characters and my player's characters as a reward for playing.
Jonathan Wilson
Update: Well about 20 pages later I found the link to download the templates and I'm working with them now. A few errors in Dependecies with the 0.3.6 verson. I do see one issue with some of the really long named powers not shrinking to fit the text field (i.e. Channel Divinity: Divine Meddle)
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I'm teaching my kids and these cards are great. I was actually about to post a question to you about cards for Feats and things like Second Wind - ie. the Dwarven Fighter I have rolled up has the Power Attack feat and it'd be great to have a card with that info as an example.
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