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Grandpa:
For rituals, I think only one "icon circle" is needed, and really only for an icon that means "ritual". I bow to your superior icon-making skills.
Second: For my own use I've been putting a bit more space between the lines of text. Like this Fomat => Line Spacing => _1.0_ line, 0.5 before paragraph. (see attached picture) Is there some reason I've missed for not spacing the lines out a bit more? They seem kinda crushed to these old eyes of mine.
Third: I indent the second line of each paragraph, after the bold text. I notice your tutorial says to indent, but your cards aren't indented. Am I missing something?
Lastly: I'd really like to print these cards right next to each other on a page, without *any* white space in between. I use doPDF to convert PPT to pdf as you say, but I can't get the spacing right when I print the pdf. Tips?
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I need a Card Set that has the Sword Mage cards from the RPGA Living Forgotten Realms quick peek.
I don't have access to MSE yet as I have not installed Vista on my Mac (yup lazy and hate calling MS for activation arrrrrggggg). Last time I think I had issues with MSE in Parallels.
So a set in PDF would be awesome. ATM I'm using Ander00's set, but have been really impressed with everyone's contibutions.
Thanks for sticking up for the card editing and letting me know that someone is using the magic item cards. Woot!
I've been using the PPT files and the magic item cards (pretty much all the cards actually). Would also like to report that the PPT files work under OpenOffice.org running on Linux. The only thing that doesn't quite display right is that my Linux machine doesn't have whatever font you used and I have to choose a new one that fits right. But that is entirely on my end.
That's nice icons Grandpa. I love them! I can't wait to see your rituals cards..
I'm glad you like them. I've attached a preview of the ritual card test I did of the worst (i.e., largest) ritual I could find, as a test to make sure the cards could hold every ritual. It's the only card I've abbreviated rules on, and I was very, very careful about what I abbreviated and how. One of the reasons for going through the effort of creating the cards was to be as "official" as I possibly could, with rules info you know are good (typos withstanding) right off of the card.
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Originally Posted by Nail
For rituals, I think only one "icon circle" is needed...
Second: Is there some reason I've missed for not spacing the lines out a bit more?
Third: I notice your tutorial says to indent, but your cards aren't indented.
Lastly: I'd really like to print these cards ... without *any* white space in between ... I can't get the spacing right when I print the pdf.
First: Indeed!
Second: I just went with the default PowerPoint spacing, and PowerPoint will automatically adjust the line spacing to try to fit the font size to the card. Sorry if it's hard on the eyes. It would be too hard to go back now.
Third: I didn't know how to standardize paragraph indenting when I started the project, so I was selective about when I did it by hand. If I ever decide to be completely insane, I might tackle getting all of it adjusted and standardized throughout the set, but at the moment, we're talking a hella-lotta cards that need to be reviewed and tweaked after the formatting (certainly a disadvantage of doing it in PowerPoint).
Lastly: As far as I know, this is just a limitation of printing from PDF. Each card is edge-to-edge black, and I don't know of a way to force Acrobat Reader to print multiple pages next to each other like that. The question is out of my league, unfortunately.
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The magic wand is listed as level 11+ it should be 1+
I've been using the PPT files and the magic item cards (pretty much all the cards actually). Would also like to report that the PPT files work under OpenOffice.org running on Linux. The only thing that doesn't quite display right is that my Linux machine doesn't have whatever font you used and I have to choose a new one that fits right. But that is entirely on my end.
Cool, I haven't used OpenOffice, so that's good to hear. The font is Calibri, and according to Wikipedia, you can download it with PowerPoint Viewer 2007 here.
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I need a Card Set that has the Sword Mage cards from the RPGA Living Forgotten Realms quick peek.
I don't have access to MSE yet as I have not installed Vista on my Mac (yup lazy and hate calling MS for activation arrrrrggggg). Last time I think I had issues with MSE in Parallels.
So a set in PDF would be awesome. ATM I'm using Ander00's set, but have been really impressed with everyone's contibutions.
Suggestions?
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Ander, will your cards be updated to include the Swordmage powers in the Living Forgotten Realms preview?
For both of you guys, my new set (Version 3), has all of the SwordMage cards produced in the Forgotten Realms preview.
Currently, version 3 has two different look and feels.
Or, if you can wait a bit -
Version 4 of my set will have seven different styles including Dzokvik's new style.
Version 5 will include an eighth style specifically for Monsters (which will be included) and it will be adding about half a dozen ENWorld races and classes, Rituals, and any ENWorld monsters I can find that look decent.
Lastly, Version 6 will have my Items, Magic Items and Artifacts. Some of the styling I will rip off from Tintagel to allow pictures to be added to them (although I'm hopefully going to stay away from WOW pictures *COUGH*).
Version 4 should be rolling out the door sometime this week.
BTW - Since Version 4 will be the next big step in Power Cards, I'll try and make a set of PDF's for each set (although I'm going to have to automate it somehow - no way in hell I'm making PDF's for 7 sets by hand).
-- Hirahito
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Location: Cedar Rapids, IA PCs now: Genasi Warlord 5 Human BRV Fighter 5
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Originally Posted by Grandpa
Lastly: As far as I know, this is just a limitation of printing from PDF. Each card is edge-to-edge black, and I don't know of a way to force Acrobat Reader to print multiple pages next to each other like that. The question is out of my league, unfortunately.
Shucks.
I've tried everything I can think of, to no avail.
My thought was: "Print out the cards so they touch so that I can laminate and cut them, all in one go." As it is, I'll have to cut them out (with separate cuts around each card), then laminate them individually. (sigh)
Not your fault, Grandpa! Don't mind me, I'm just ranting.
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I've tried everything I can think of, to no avail.
My thought was: "Print out the cards so they touch so that I can laminate and cut them, all in one go." As it is, I'll have to cut them out (with separate cuts around each card), then laminate them individually. (sigh)
Not your fault, Grandpa! Don't mind me, I'm just ranting.
Well, there's one thing you can do but it might be a pain in the rear: create a new PPT file with 8.5x11 dimensions (or that of whatever paper you'll be using) and then group, copy, and paste each set of elements making a Grandpa card into the new sheet. Do this so you have 8 sets (cards) and you have full control over layout. Of course if you don't need to print out all of the cards but just a subset, say for your character as a player, it's not that bad. Otherwise, yeah, it is a bit tedious trimming the cards off.
Finally loaded Vista on the mac and now have MSE. I now see why it's so darn awesome.
Ander00's cards have been used from the day he put them in PDF form, but I must say that Hirahito, yours are being printed as I type. I can't wait for the latest versions (request: Hirahito could you please change the colour of the effect cards from Black to something else? they seem to easy to mistake on the table)
Praise & Requests aside for a moment ...
Does anyone else find this thread too difficult to navigate through? I'd love to see individual threads dedicated to each of the main card creators (ie. Ander00, Hirahito, grandpa, etc...). Maybe a "sticky" is in order?
This thread is great don't get me wrong but oddly rendered useless now that the forum is painfully slow, if at all existent at times. [ps. I shouldn't need to spend 20 mins waiting to see if I can go from page 30 in this thread to page 18 just to find the MSE Character Cards... ya they aren't there! /cry]
My new template for items is done. It looks similar to my Power Cards, but allows for a picture to be put into the card. Feedback is always welcome.
I like these a lot. The cards have a great look, and I really like that they have an image on the front.
I'm torn on how useful the two icons are. In the examples you gave I see some utility but also grounds for confusion. It looks like the bottom icon is the slot, which I think works well. The top one is action, but the one with a "-" brings up the problem of how to iconize items with various actions and just general confusion as to whether the icon is to be used just for the special action (Daily vs At-Will or always on).
I've been using the Lord Tirian design for items, as I find the background looks ancient and works well for magic items. The card has a large space for an image, which works well with most items and looks super-cool with the art available via WotC's art gallery (the MIC has tons of useful art).
I've just been typing in the items as I need them for various games. As a DM for home games or LFR I pre-make the items in the mod and then I pass out the cards when the items are found. This has a cool "I got treasure" feel and also speeds up play by allowing the player to have complete knowledge of what the item does.
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Reason: Trying to get images to work
I did have to edit the cards - the weapon powers all say '1' or '2' instead of [1W] or [2W]. That only took a few minutes, though.
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll go back through the master and make the changes for the next release.
Actually - you pointed out a bug with my Auto-fill program that tries to change all ['s to < and all ]'s >. MSE then eats the stupid <W> because it thinks it is an editing symbol.
I'll have to edit my program and make sure it works correctly for the next release.
-- Hirahito
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I just printed my first set of power cards, and have got some feedback on them.
I first printed quite a few of Hirahito's set, because it looks so nifty, but in the end, I actually gave them up, because there are not column where you can sort the power cards after the class they belong to and the lever of the power. I had to look through each card and note which I was going to print, and it just got too much. Hirahito, is it possible to add such a column so that it is easier to pick the powers you want to print without browsing them all? They are soo many!
In the end, I printed the ones I needed from Granpa's set, and they look great too. I can't wait to laminate them and hand them out to my players - they are going to be really, really happy, as they almost swooned at the prospect of writing down all the power text on their first 4E session
I just printed my first set of power cards, and have got some feedback on them.
I first printed quite a few of Hirahito's set, because it looks so nifty, but in the end, I actually gave them up, because there are not column where you can sort the power cards after the class they belong to and the lever of the power. I had to look through each card and note which I was going to print, and it just got too much. Hirahito, is it possible to add such a column so that it is easier to pick the powers you want to print without browsing them all? They are soo many!
In the end, I printed the ones I needed from Granpa's set, and they look great too. I can't wait to laminate them and hand them out to my players - they are going to be really, really happy, as they almost swooned at the prospect of writing down all the power text on their first 4E session
The 3rd edition of my cards SHOULD have a LEVEL, CLASS/RACE, FREQUENCY, ATTACK/UTILITY, ACTION, RANGE/AREA, and ORIGINAL SOURCE columns (as well as the name and Card #) columns to sort on.
Are these not showing up?
I'm certainly seeing them in mine when I open my set in MSE.
Can someone else download my latest set and see if those columns are showing up? I'm afraid I might have a biased set based on the fact I'm editing it all the time.
-- Hirahito
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Can someone else download my latest set and see if those columns are showing up? I'm afraid I might have a biased set based on the fact I'm editing it all the time.
-- Hirahito[/quote]
Yea I can see them, If you can not you need to right click on the columns and add them in.
The 3rd edition of my cards SHOULD have a ORIGINAL SOURCE columns (as well as the name and Card #) columns to sort on.
-- Hirahito
Nice work Hirahito. How do we modify the Original Source column. I'd like to include such a column in my set, but not sure how its modified. I can't just double click on the column entry to change it. Any ideas?
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