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Magus Coeruleus: my PPT Power Card Templates are here, along with a Tutorial PPT that explains how I used them. Hope it helps!
Thank you for the PowerPoint templates. This actually put me onto the idea of using the MSE components in PowerPoint itself, since I am a Macintosh user, and can't use the MSE program. The PNG files are easy to manipulate in PowerPoint, and can be used to create pretty much anything. Particularly, this allows for creating custom sets of powers for individual PCs.
Tintagel, are your templates compatible with MSE 0.3.6 ?
I tried them, and it seems to work, but in the main section of the cards, I only get two fields (text and comments/description), where I was expecting more (range/area for instance) from what I read in the "game" file (moreover, this same fil says MSE 0.3.5).
Moreover, while I remember in previous MSE templates having special words (such as "Target:" or "Hit:") automatically set to bold font, there is no effet on my own cards.
Is it that I need to use MSE 0.3.5 or am I missing something ?
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My group and I are loving your power cards; thanks for all your effort! However, we noted that Acid Arrow (wizard 1st level daily) seems to be missing from the PDF version. Might that one be added in?
Some have been asking me to update my cards, so I've gone ahead and done so.
New features of the cards:
* All editable by hand now.
* a *LOT* more customizable than they were before on fonts, colors, etc.
* All the icons have been redone and touched up.
* Looks of the cards have been tweaked a bit. I think they look better.
* Sidebars added like Ander's cards. Allows you to enter in your own stats, etc. Up to 7 sidebar entries for each card, if you enter into the first one only, it does not effect the size of the main rule text.
* Sidebars also allow you to enter text into the box itself and the contents save with the card.
The sidebars still need a bit of tweaking on looks, so bare with me.
Awesome job on the cards, we've used them in all our 4.0 gaming sessions thus far, so I wanted to access them from my home computer as well, but after following all the instructions I found in this extreeeemely long thread and deleting the config file, I still encounter the following error when I try to open the cards. Error: Package not found C:\Program Files\Magic Set Editor 2\data\D&D.mse-game.
Please forgive me if this an obvious fix or if it has been answered herein before, but I couldn't find any answers in the thread and I am a mse and winrar novice.
I don't think we can legally distribute any powers now. The GSL clearly forbids it.
You misunderstand the purpose of the GSL. The GSL only applies if you are using the logo - it is explicitly allowing the use of the logo and use of copyrighted material to those that comply with the terms.
The situation with power cards now is no different than before the release of the GSL - unless you are intending to use the logo, it falls under the rules of copyright.
Some have been asking me to update my cards, so I've gone ahead and done so.
New features of the cards:
* All editable by hand now.
* a *LOT* more customizable than they were before on fonts, colors, etc.
* All the icons have been redone and touched up.
* Looks of the cards have been tweaked a bit. I think they look better.
* Sidebars added like Ander's cards. Allows you to enter in your own stats, etc. Up to 7 sidebar entries for each card, if you enter into the first one only, it does not effect the size of the main rule text.
* Sidebars also allow you to enter text into the box itself and the contents save with the card.
The sidebars still need a bit of tweaking on looks, so bare with me.
Here's some samples of the cards. Feel free to criticize and / or make suggestions.
-- Hirahito
I'm loving the set and am going through and printing them for my game tomorrow night. I was wondering though two things. First is how do I add the sidebars you are talking about. Second, how can I change the Action or Range/Area for a card?
Thanks! Glad to see some folks are using those. I know they are ink hogs, but eh - shiny!
Oh, I've got some folks working on entering all the powers in the PHB. I'll announce it when it's done in case anyone wants them and host password-protected zips on the http://4e.educatedgamer.net site. There will be a few Q&A's just to prove you own the books before I send you the password. I don't want to be THAT blatant in breaking the GSL.
I definately love them and yes they do hog up the ink but are worth it heh.
One request though please....
can you make a gold colored border? I was wanting to have them seperate for magic item powers.
I'm loving the set and am going through and printing them for my game tomorrow night. I was wondering though two things. First is how do I add the sidebars you are talking about. Second, how can I change the Action or Range/Area for a card?
Re download the set. I was having problems with the sidebars, so I changed them just a bit ago. (should be version 2).
To add anything in the sidebars, you should see 7 empty slots on the right hand side of the card. These are the title boxes for the sidebars. It still has a bug where it assumes you start typing on the first or second one, so you'll need to start in one of those two to get it to work. (I'm working on this still).
Currently, there are two options for the background. I'm really not liking either (but at least they work). I'm slotting out some time tomorrow to try and make them look a lot better. I'll re-upload the set as soon as I get a working version.
To change the Action or Range Icons, click on the icon itself and delete or backspace till the icon disappears. Then you'll see a list of 1 character shortcuts on the bottom (like Free Action is an F, etc.). Type that in and the new icon will show up.
Make sure you try out some of the new styling options I added. They aren't super awesome, but they do let you customize the cards a lot.
-- Hirahito
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Make sure to check out the Universal Card Set as well as all the templates being moved to it!
I love your cards for the clear, uncluttered layout! Yesterday, I've tried to meddle a bit with the template and game files, but had no luck.
I basically wanted to make the fields with the boxes (images box2.png, box3.png) editable, so I can customize the cards for printing, entering the appropriate values for the attacks.
Any ideas for this or any tip on which paramters I'd have to change?
After about a week of wrangling and design, Black Plauge and I have come up with what we feel is a serviceable design for using MSE to make character cards. You can check out the evolution in this thread at DragonAvenue. A lot of the numbers and such are automated (surges, HP calculation, ability modifiers), and I think it looks pretty darn good.
Even better than that, we've made it so you can use the same card to make monster cards, in the same template format.
Not sure what kind of icon junkies we have here, but I wanted to share the icons I made since deciding to tackle magic item and magic item power cards. I made them out of shapes in PowerPoint, dragging curve handles around and such to get everything nice-looking, but I'm not sure if there is an easy way to get those shapes out into other programs people use.
I wanted to keep the orange template from the PHB for the card borders but wanted to visually communicate the daily/encounter/at-will, and now healing surge/consumable power types in addition to the normal power icons. And I figured when thumbing through magic item cards, it would be nice to visually note how many of a given equipment type you had instead of reading it.
The icons have been added to my template files, which you can access here.
Click on the JPG popups for a nicer view of the images.
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These power cards look awesome. I don't suppose there's someone willing to distill this 26 page thread into a short wiki article? Like a little tutorial on how to use the card templates? I've sketched out a rough article already so that people can add links to templates (and not have to sift through the thread to find the info).
These power cards look awesome. I don't suppose there's someone willing to distill this 26 page thread into a short wiki article? Like a little tutorial on how to use the card templates? I've sketched out a rough article already so that people can add links to templates (and not have to sift through the thread to find the info).
Well, I've had a bash at a basic tutorial. I'm not sure how in-depth we need to go; once past a certain point the online MSE documentation should be enough for anyone using the program. But it's a Wiki, so I hope people will take what I've done and run with it.
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