Making your own power cards

[illathid]

Hey I really like the set up you have for these, but do you think you could make a printer friendly version without the background? I 'd like to not use too much ink and I think a simple look might improve them a bit.

 

[DennisB]

Like I said, This template is very adjustable, You can make the cards black and white in the styles section right before you print it. that is one of many options I am going to be giving people.

You can change the fonts.

And we are looking into making the option of the boxes either typeable or writeable.

Another option we are looking into is the black and white version having the borders of the appropriate colors of the cards so it can be printer friendly.

It is a very long and complicated program with lots of options. I have taken the ideas of many players (Not all) and implemented them into this template.
I have also been reading many threads as well and seeing what people want.

On a final note, We thought it was going to only take a few days, however, this has been proving to be an unreal goal, it will take about another week at least. When we release the template we want no bugs in it and when I do release the template, I am going to release the magic item deck, all magic items in one deck. I will say this, "you can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all the people all of the time" but if you have any ideas then let me know and I will see what we can do.

This is the latest update picture.

 

[bleedingedge]

You can find the UCS Beta 2 download as well as the Version 5 of my card template there.

I may very well be rolling a 1 on my perception roll, but I don't see the UCS simple template there. I see the UCS itself, but not the template.

 

[xarinth]

Just curious, but has anyone made a set of cards for Martial Power using Grandpa's template? His is still my favorite, and I'm trying to find them (I'm not good at making them myself or I would). I know there are plenty of good card types out there, but I like these and am hoping for them.

I have checked through the pages from his post with all of them, to here and can't find anything besides other people suggesting their cards when someone else asks, so please don't reply with your cards, if noone has made the Grandpa's set for martial that is fine. (I could be blind and just missed someone replying with his cards as well, that was a lot of pages).

 

[DennisB]

bleedingedge here is a direct download link

http://hirahito.com/ucs/ucs-beta2.zip

 

[tristan_tewksbury]

I may very well be rolling a 1 on my perception roll, but I don't see the UCS simple template there. I see the UCS itself, but not the template.

You did not follow the link to "MSE Card Set Links". You can get the template HERE, but be warned that you will need to edit the style file and replace "card name:" with "name:" or the name field will not appear on the cards. Also note that the file only contains the template for the cards, not any of the card text.

I like the layout very much. Clean but playable. Nice work.

There is an "edit" option for that template that exposes a lot of the hidden fields to allow you to include things like Source and such. That is a nice addition. A lot of card elements are now done as drop-downs, which saves having to remember a set of characters to type. I just hope my checkbox character is still included for my custom cards.

The only thing I don't like is that a lot of the colors are pretty dark. I need to see if I can play with saturation levels a bit, but currently these will use a LOT of ink.

Another question was that you were using some nice backgrounds in your examples that were not present in the file. I assume you have added these later but not updated the version linked via the MSE Card Set Links page.

I just joined the dev board (as Jax) and will start feeding my input over there.

 

[eloquentaction]

You did not follow the link to "MSE Card Set Links". You can get the template HERE, but be warned that you will need to edit the style file and replace "card name:" with "name:" or the name field will not appear on the cards. Also note that the file only contains the template for the cards, not any of the card text.

I like the layout very much. Clean but playable. Nice work.

There is an "edit" option for that template that exposes a lot of the hidden fields to allow you to include things like Source and such. That is a nice addition. A lot of card elements are now done as drop-downs, which saves having to remember a set of characters to type. I just hope my checkbox character is still included for my custom cards.

The only thing I don't like is that a lot of the colors are pretty dark. I need to see if I can play with saturation levels a bit, but currently these will use a LOT of ink.

Another question was that you were using some nice backgrounds in your examples that were not present in the file. I assume you have added these later but not updated the version linked via the MSE Card Set Links page.

I just joined the dev board (as Jax) and will start feeding my input over there.

I'll get the latest version out there. I'm recovering from having to work late and then getting raped by my girlfriend.

I still have about a half dozen things to do to release the newest versions.

The new MSE-SET will be the 4.3 cards set with about 3200 cards (All of PHB, MM, DMG, some of the dragons, some ENWorld stuff, the FRPG and the AV).

It's not everything, but it's a start.

And ALL of the backgrounds I used in the examples are in the Beta 1 of the cards.

Try the following settings:
* NOTE: Changing the saturation requires a FILE->Reload.
Saturation to LIGHT
Background to Metal2
Top Mask to Metal5
Icon back to CharcoalRing
Icon Background color to NO

That should be close to what I was using for the samples.

Also - I really appreciate the support Tristan.

And to tell you the truth, Tristan - I had totally forgotten about the checkbox character. I just wrote down in my notes to include some checkboxes and squares, etc for you. I'll add them to the symbol file.

BTW - Tristan, try the BETA 1 of my template and see if you can figure out how to make the symbols W5, R5 and the other typable symbols to appear. Every time I try and get them to work, they don't. Very irritating.

-- Hirahito

 

[tecnowraith]

How do I add Hirahito's, DennisB and other templates to MSE? I forgot how.

 

[DennisB]

Open the file and copy the"Data" file and replace it with the "Data" file in the MSE program file.

 

[tecnowraith]

Ok I am somewhat confused on using the UCS files in MSE. I downloaded the UCS and followed the directions from:Getting Started - Toosigma but cannot open the cards