Making your own power cards

[Thindaraiel]

I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that there is no more update to ander0 card sets. At least, I didn't see any update in the last few months.

You can search for the UCS project, where you will find the latest cards sets, and if you appreciate Ander's template, you can still use it as I have converted the template to the UCS format.

[Netminder69]

Has anyone created icons for Action: Opportunity action or Attack: Melee Spirit?

I have 0 artistic ability and could use them for the Shaman cards for my PHB 2 cards (The Dungeon Crawl - Home).

[Thindaraiel]

I have just finished 3 new icons for opportunity actions and melee-spirit and range-spirit attacks.

What do you think of them ?

[Nytmare]

They make me want to play Pacman...

[dragon23ca]

I just added the Player’s Handbook Heroes: Series 1 cards to the Universal Card Set (UCS) for anyone who wants them.
UCS-Card Entry - Toosigma

[daan]

Some very nice templates on here!

I'm wondering, would any of you be willing to allow your designs to be used on http://www.godeckyourself.com? Its an online tool for card creation, for people who just want to create some cards without fiddling too much with layout (sort of a lightweight MSE).

[Nytmare]

Originally Posted by daan

I'm wondering, would any of you be willing to allow your designs to be used on http://www.godeckyourself.com?

Be forewarned that WOTC has been cease and decisting websites that let people download power cards.

[daan]

Originally Posted by Nytmare

Be forewarned that WOTC has been cease and decisting websites that let people download power cards.

Thanks for the warning!

Godeckyourself.com is gaming system agnostic and intended for homebrew cards. Copies of commercial cards, copyrighted or trademarked materials are not allowed (plus there are enough of those around anyway).

For example, you won't be able to find the typical Rogue powers on there, but there might be one or two home made powers.

[Mercutio01]

Originally Posted by daan

Some very nice templates on here!

I'm wondering, would any of you be willing to allow your designs to be used on http://www.godeckyourself.com? Its an online tool for card creation, for people who just want to create some cards without fiddling too much with layout (sort of a lightweight MSE).

daan - if you'd like to use the card designs that Black Plauge and I made, feel free. Let me know what you need via PM.

[daan]

Originally Posted by Mercutio01

daan - if you'd like to use the card designs that Black Plauge and I made, feel free. Let me know what you need via PM.

Thanks I'll work your material into some templates.

[Thindaraiel]

UCS Beta 5.1 is the newest version for the UCS model, adding only a few functionalities and correcting some little problems to the Beta5.0.
- new card type: Power Feature (for powers who have no level and are class/race/talent dependent)
- default card is now "Power Feature"
- 'type' field is no more defined by the card type, but is only initialized with the card type. You can modify the value as you want
- new ritual category: Thievery (for alchemy rituals)
- new field: 'trap conditions' contains the description of the trap and the conditions of activation. This must be used to separate the "pure" rule field from the specific "trap info"
- 'action' field is enabled on Traps
- missing icons have been added (see other thread)
- symbol menu and shortcuts have been updated

The Thindaraiel template has been improved to fulfill these functionalities, plus some little updates:
- when selecting an alchemy category on a ritual card, the card design changes for "alchemy ritual": icon and color are not the same
- new illustration added (mainly for my own campaign, but it can be useful also for you !)
- automatic keywords are lowercase in the keywords zone. damage keywords and ritual skill keywords are now separated by comas instead of slashes. styling option "keywords field" proposes a new value "sorted (no edition)". When selected, you cannot modify the keywords field, but all the keywords (including manual ones) are now sorted alphabetically and are lowercase.
- I added in 5.0 the new item and ritual fields (cost, enhancement bonus, ritual manifestation, and so on) as hidden fields before the rules. You have to move the cursor before the rules to access these fields. This was not really easy to use, so I have added a new styling option "rules edit mode" to show all the hidden fields.
- new styling option "header icon small" for those who prefer the small icons like in Ander00 original template rather the bigger icons I propose.
- new design for some of the character/monster cards. Try them !

Ander00 template has been updated to be compliant with UCS Beta5.1. It is still a reduced version of Thindaraiel template, thus limited to its functionalities.

Hirahito template has been updated to correct a major bug:
- a new box is available in the header to select the power frequency (it's a shame I didn't see that before !)

Naienko (formerly DnD) template has been updated.

You can find the UCS Beta5.1 and all these templates, and the Beta4->Beta5 converter by Meigetsu, at the following adress: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=e00e4cf5c7c06234ab1eab3e9fa335ca612adfdc 3fd0631c


Do not hesitate to send a feedback !


UCS Beta5.2 will certainly contain a bunch of programming aids for template developpers, plus some little information fields I'm thinking of. I want to develop the Feat/Race/Class info cards. If you have any suggestion, please notify me !
UCS Beta5.2 will have to wait till late august, due to real life and vacations, unless there is a major bug to correct.

You can follow the original post on toosigma here: toosigma.com • View topic - UCS Beta 5.1 on line

[Kzach]

Don't suppose anyone who's followed this thread since the start or at least is up to date with it all, could post a summary of the latest info?

I once had the MSE with a nice template but now I can't find the template at all so can't make any cards. Trawling through this entire thread just isn't worth it when I don't even know what to look for

[Thindaraiel]

summary:
- is granpa continuing with his template ? I don't know
- many MSE templates have disappeared
- MSE UCS model is still alive. But the discussions have moved on toosigma.com forums. There you can find the latest info. Some of the old MSE stand-alone templates have moved to the UCS norm : Ander00, DnD for instance.

[Mercutio01]

Granpa was using Powerpoint primarily. Ander00 I think stopped. My template that Black Plauge and I created is still available, but would be easier to find on Dragonavenue.com.

[Alphastream]

Most of the old templates work just fine. In general, it isn't a big deal to take an old project and make a few cards for it.

I still vastly prefer the various cool templates on this thread to the DDI CB power cards and I take the time to type up my powers (and PC-specific bonuses) in the MSE templates.

[C_M2008]

Anyone know of any smaller cards out there?

The magic card sized ones are cluttering my table at this point. Ideally I'd like some about the size of half of a MTG split card. If there was a template for full text split cards for Magic set editor that would help too (and then I could just keep them together and sleeve them).

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[SweetRein]

This is a little throwing, joining an unrelated forums and seeing the site you own (pifro) linked in a random sticky.
That aside,

Originally Posted by C_M2008

Anyone know of any smaller cards out there?

The magic card sized ones are cluttering my table at this point. Ideally I'd like some about the size of half of a MTG split card. If there was a template for full text split cards for Magic set editor that would help too (and then I could just keep them together and sleeve them).

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Half the size of a split card... half? So, 1/4th the size of a magic card if I understand you correctly?
It is easy enough to do this by creating a custom template with Magic Set Editor. Just copy the template folder that you are using for the cards over, open the data (or -styles, I forget what format MSE uses now) in a text editor, and reduce all the layout related pixel values by 1/4 (or 1/2 if that's what you meant).
If the backgrounds no longer scale, then you might need a quick photoshop to just reduce the image sizes as well, though, that shouldn't be an issue.

You could also get a pdf printer application (as comes with Acrobat, or there are many others online for free). When you 'print' the set, print it to a pdf.
Open Acrobat/Reader, and go to print, then Acrobat has options to print up to 4 pages on a sheet. Or whichever size you need to.

[C_M2008]

Originally Posted by SweetRein

This is a little throwing, joining an unrelated forums and seeing the site you own (pifro) linked in a random sticky.
That aside,


Half the size of a split card... half? So, 1/4th the size of a magic card if I understand you correctly?

I phrased that poorly, I meant the size of one piece of the split card, 1/2 the size of a magic card. I'm fiddling but I can't seem to make a textless version of the split card(which is basically what I want) so I'm just asking if anyoe knows of anything similiar size wise.

Thanks for the technical info though, I'm atrocious at this sort of thing, but I'll give it a shot.

[Alphastream]

Setting the pages to print per page is the way to go, though you will need to test it to get the right size. First, print to the pdf. Once you made the pdf, in Acrobat choose print and in that box, choose "Multiple Pages Per Sheet" under Print Scaling. Then toy with the Pages per sheet options. Setting it to 2 should result in half the size, more or less.

[Hadrian the Builder]

Does anyone know of a pdf form for wizard's power cards that I can use to enter custom powers by hand?