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!
You may not need to. I am spending today updating my MSE sets. Also, my powercards have gotten a big update on the usability side. They also now support Labels for attack and effect notes, which can be turned on or off. Almost all icons and default values are now pull-down menus as well.
I thought, since Tintagel has been putting up teasers, I should put up some teasers of my Version 5 Template.
This is only the first draft and even then it's only the Portrait version. Expect the new release in a week or two.
Here are some of the cards...
Note that the BASIC card (the first) is just a redo of Ander's set.
Some highlights so far:
* This template has 9 different types of backgrounds. Each background can be made semi-transparent or full-on.
* This template has 11 different types of headers, each (except plain) can be made transparent or not.
* This template has 6 different types of icon placements (and even the ability to turn icons off)
* There are over 44 built in images including 10 user defined images that can be placed on the background of the card at your discretion.
This gives (not including font and color choices) some 51,030 possible choices for one card.
This template also includes some new colors as well as the old ones: Red, Green, Black, Blue, Iron, Silver, White, Gold, Orange, Purple and Leather as well as the ability to select your own custom colors from a full color palette.
If anyone else has some suggestions for this set, please let me know as it's still in its Alpha stage.
-- 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 like the set a lot, though I wish there was a template that looked like Grandpa's cards, though the first sample you gave is close. I like the "pulled out of the book" look.
Possible options:
The ability to put the flavor text at the top of the card, like the power descriptions in the book.
If possible, alternating backgrounds for various parts of each power, again, like in the book.
And, finally, a distinctive greyscale template for printing without color, but where it is easy to tell at a glance if it's an At-Will, Encounter, or Daily power.
Very nice Eloquenaction! I particularly like the sepia race pics.
Well, my Powercard template is done. Some new features include:
Support for labels, so you can write your own numbers for attack and damage values - this is optional.
Pull-down menus for all icons and for action types, range, and labels
streamlined code - tightened things up - removed need for 2 directories
New Paragon and Epic variations of all cards, plus 2 misc colors. Total of 11 variations per class.
This new version should make entering the data MUCH faster, but it WILL invalidate some of the information in your existing cards. You will need to manually update some of that content, I am afraid.
However, I have some of the cards already updated, and within the week, I will update all of my MSE files at my website: http://4e.educatedgamer.net to level 30. That way, you shouldn't have to re-enter any data for core PHB classes.
If anyone wants to contribute their efforts to entering other data from newer books, email me: rivera.ga (at) gmail.com
If any EN World member wants a free copy of the template, send me a private message. Of couse, I buying it for $5.99 would go a long way to convincing my wife that I'm not completely insane, just a struggling artist. LOL! Still, for a limited time, I will give it to you guys for free. Look for a video and updates to the MSE files coming soon.
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@ Ander00 - Thanks for making the power set cards... been using them for my wife & I's characters. We enjoy them and look forward to the updates as they come.
This thread has been extremely useful to me so I decided to try and do some of my own. Using Grandad's templates I've compiled the new rituals from Dragon #366. I hope these are up to scratch and I might try going through the Adventurer's Vault next.
This thread has been extremely useful to me so I decided to try and do some of my own. Using Grandad's templates I've compiled the new rituals from Dragon #366. I hope these are up to scratch and I might try going through the Adventurer's Vault next.
I can't believe how nice these additions are! Thanks for doing these; I've added them to the main post as well.
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Josiah, I love your style the best and have been trying to get it to work with the MSE.
I consistantly am getting an error upon opening on your set, which states, "Package not found: [Dir]D&D-symbol-josiah.mse-symbol-font', followed by another error, "Package not found: "D&D-symbol-josiah.mse-symbol-font".
I've downloaded all of the items on your website and have most of the other sets working.
What am I doing wrong?
I realized that a folder (the one you mentioned) was missing from the Main Templates zip file. Added that folder and they should work great now. Let me know if you have any other problems. I will continue adding pages as I finish them (for example, the consumable items are done).
I have been using Ander's card set as i like it the best. However, his set is lacking in some symbols (different symbols for Immediate Reation and Interrupt, Walls, etc.). I took the symbols from a different set and added them to his font symbol folder and altered the symbol.font file to have entries for them.
The symbols don't show up though. I have combed through the game file to see if there was soemthign in there that needed to be changed but I can't find anything in there. I also checked the style file (a long shot, I know) to see if anythig was calledin that but there was nothing.
Any help on getting those new .png files to show up would be greatly appreciated.
Knight - are you planing to add any new ones soon? Also do you have cards for Action Points or Healing Surges?
-benensky
Why thank you benensky. I must admit that most of my inspiration and ideas came from other earlier users on enworld, but I'm happy to add my contribution.
Do you mean new backgrounds or new classes (such as the barbarian) or something else?
I don't currently have cards for action points and healing surges since it seems to be working well to just use magic the gathering colored beads for them. Do you find that you'd rather have cards for action points and healing surges? (there is already one for second wind)
Do you mean new backgrounds or new classes (such as the barbarian) or something else?
Eather - I was wondering if I was going to see any new additions soon.
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Originally Posted by JosiahKnight
Do you find that you'd rather have cards for action points and healing surges? (there is already one for second wind)
I would rather have cards for action points and healing surges. Am prototyping a folder to hold all my cards (so they are not lose on the table) and also my charicter and record sheets. Then all I need is my dice and my mini.
I use the second wind cards.
When I get a finished model I like to use, I willl post it.
I'm just popping in to say I've been using Tintagel's cards, and I'm getting a phenomenal response from my players. I had missed printing a few of the powers they needed, and at our last session on Saturday, the ones without their cards were a little upset.
I'm now planning on doing some additions to the set for initiative cards with some quotes from my gaming group to add that special personal touch.
Eather - I was wondering if I was going to see any new additions soon.
I would rather have cards for action points and healing surges. Am prototyping a folder to hold all my cards (so they are not lose on the table) and also my charicter and record sheets. Then all I need is my dice and my mini.
I use the second wind cards.
When I get a finished model I like to use, I willl post it.
-benensky
I went ahead and added the alchemical items into the consumable items pdf as well as edited the other consumable items for ease of reading.
If you can give me a idea of what color and design you'd like the action point/healing surge cards, I'll see what I can manage.
I'm in the middle of mid-terms at chiropractic school, so I'm abit distracted.. but I can still work on specific things if you're looking for them.
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