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!
Alright, here is a preview of the latest revision of my template. Since all of the changes are not evident in these samples, I will give you a qiuck list of changes since 1.0.
There are now 5 fields on the left hand side, each of which can be individually toggled and filled with whichever information the player desires. Currently available are action type, defense, and attack bonus. Damage and possibly damage types will be included shortly.
The information in the attack vs. defense field has been replaced with an icon showing the defense. Since the attack bonus is on the card, it seemed irrelevant to also include the attacking stat. If this is something people would like changed, I can work on icons for the attack stats as well, and put them in one of the other fields.
The entire design has been tightened up in order to give more space for power text.
Flavor text has been removed. My reasoning here was that at least in my games, players re-flavor the majority of their powers anyway, so having the text on the bottom of the card was pointless, and a waste of space.
The icon sets have been redone. I am now using a mixture of the standard burst and blast icons, some of Grandpa's excellent icons, and the defense icons I have done myself. Let me know what you think.
D&D Fonts Lolth and Mentor now used for the headings and power text respectively.
Now I just have to finish it up, and figure out how to actually make an MSE template out of my working PSD. Feedback always welcome!
Wow those look great I can't wait to try them out!
Well I've released my template for the UCS Beta 3. It is heavily inspired by Grandpa, Ander & Hirahito / Eloquentaction
You can find the UCS Beta 3 files and card sets here (the UCS Beta 3 files is needed but not included in the zip file): Category:Universal Card Set - Toosigma
I have quickly made 2 new versions of my template.
First one is a new version of Ander's template, compatible with UCS Beta3. I have cut all the functionnalities that I have added in the previous version, and kept only the basic functionnalities from Ander's template. You can fint it here (Ander00 v2.0 for UCS Beta3.zip). This will allow Ander's fans to move to the UCS standard.
Second one is a first draft of Thindaraiel template for UCS Beta3. It does not contain the Monster/character cards, nor some of the new symbols. You can find it here (Thindaraiel v3.0 for UCS Beta3.zip). Expect a new version for the next week, implementing Monster/Character cards.
A few things I noticed--
Thin--your Horizontal orientation is not selectable for the set--you cannot apply it to all cards.
*edit--it's now working...so please disregard!
In terms of basic data, all of the encounter powers are showing up as half-elf racials.
Other than that, you guys are amazing!!! Thank you SO much--my group and I appreciate your efforts so incredibly much each time we use our beautiful cards.
:-)
-jen
Last edited by dreamwisp; 18th January 2009 at 06:31 PM..
All At-Will powers are indeed entered as Half-Elf Racial Encounter powers since a half-elf character can select one At-Will power from another class as an encounter power.
They should also be present as normal At-Will powers if you look
Well I've released my template for the UCS Beta 3. It is heavily inspired by Grandpa, Ander & Hirahito / Eloquentaction
You can find the UCS Beta 3 files and card sets here (the UCS Beta 3 files is needed but not included in the zip file): Category:Universal Card Set - Toosigma
Here is a few samples and the template:
I really like this these. Great Job!
I do have 1 problem though, for some reason none of the cards display "[W]" , and whenever I try and type it in, it disappears. What can I do to fix this?
Last edited by illathid; 18th January 2009 at 10:50 PM..
I do have 1 problem though, for some reason none of the cards display "[W]" , and whenever I try and type it in, it disappears. What can I do to fix this?
I am working on the martial powers as we speak. It should be complete by this Sunday. Sorry it is taking so long, I have ran into some personal problems that came first before the decks.
Not to mention the costs of printing. My group is all approaching middle years and the subsequent onset of visual acuity and the downgrades there-of so I use a personally modded version of Anders format, primarily just reduced the color header in half, a spot of color is all we really need to know what type of power it is at a glance and as a result I get twice the prints per color cartridge. But black text on white background is almost mandatory for the body text for us to be able to easily read the cards as they lay on the table.
Don't get me wrong, some of the designs are really works of art and the authors should be commended on their artistic talent and flair but from a gameplay perspective, for us, simple wins out hands down.
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Originally Posted by JasonK
Not to derail the work, but is anyone working on a set of Grandpa's-style cards for Martial Power?
No offense, but the sets most people here are working on are too visually complex (or seem to require me to download more than just a file to print).
- jasön
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And I agree with you, some people like the flash and flair and some people like the simple. That is why me and my partner are working on a black and white option with the color thin border to be printer friendly. but as my template is still new it is still a work in the progress. However, This is why I like to read the threads to see what the players want and try to put the ideas of the players into my template.
Not to derail the work, but is anyone working on a set of Grandpa's-style cards for Martial Power?
My template for the UCS (post #1782) is mostly based on Grandpa's design: white background with black text as default (but can be configured), simple one color headers (not yet configurable) with the same color codes as the PHB uses, but I do use the icons from the standard UCS download (which was mostly copied from grandpa's style i believe), and has boxes which are a little smaller than Grandpa's cards, and the flavor text style is taken from Ander's template.
I plan to implement the following additions within a week or two:
- Backgrounds for the icons (similar to Grandpa's)
- Option to choose bigger boxes (3 & 4 boxes layout in addition to the 6 boxes)
- Option for shadow borders like Ander's template
Someone is adding Martial Powers into the UCS format, and as soon as these are done, they can be used with any UCS template.
Added links to all the templates I'm aware of to the download page: Downloads - Toosigma Please let us know if we're missing anyone, or feel free to add your link to the list.
Updated the core Beta-3 files to correct the "[W] bug" (where the [W] is interpreted as a symbol). It should work as expected with the initial install, and the bug-fix is no longer necessary.
Updated the UCS-Complete card set to include all the currently available cards - still doesn't include Martial Power, Manual of the Planes, or any Dungeon Mag material, but those should be available soon.
There are some minor issues with some templates, and not all the cards are perfect, please report any bugs/issues so they can be corrected.
My template for the UCS (post #1782) is mostly based on Grandpa's design ... Someone is adding Martial Powers into the UCS format, and as soon as these are done, they can be used with any UCS template.
Thank you but, unfortunately, I can't make use of UCS. The computer I print cards from is at work, and I can't install software onto it; at home I use a Mac and don't have a printer, anyway.
As I said, I'm hoping someone has a card set for MP where the only download is the cards themselves.
Thank you, though, DennisB - I'll look forward to your release.
Thank you but, unfortunately, I can't make use of UCS. The computer I print cards from is at work, and I can't install software onto it; at home I use a Mac and don't have a printer, anyway.
- jasön
You do not need to install MSE to make it run on a computer, you only need to extract the MSE files, unfortunately they are a bit difficult to extract from the installation program, but I've made a zip archive with the application only. Just extract the files to a folder on you computer, add the UCS files and the template to the data folder, and run the mse.exe.
You are of course restricted to the fonts on your computer if you cannot install fonts.
And you need to open the mse-set files from the application, since it is not installed there is no file association.
You can install MSE on your own computer, and generate PDF throug a pdf-printer (like PdfCreator). Then print these PDF at your office.
That's a pretty good solution. This way you would be able to make any edits to the cards (such as adding your PC's bonuses, if desired), print to pdf only the cards you will be using, and then take that pdf to work and print to paper just those cards you need. That milks all the advantages of using MSE.
My group is all approaching middle years and the subsequent onset of visual acuity and the downgrades there-of so I use a personally modded version of Anders format, primarily just reduced the color header in half, a spot of color is all we really need to know what type of power it is at a glance and as a result I get twice the prints per color cartridge. But black text on white background is almost mandatory for the body text for us to be able to easily read the cards as they lay on the table. 
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