eloquentaction
First Post
As someone who has been following this thread since Ander00's original set (and I've been using his template almost predominantly) I'm more than thrilled to have quietly watched the community working on the UCS project. I've even learned a thing or two about tweaking some of the settings in the template folders to make the cards do a little more of the specific things I wanted to do with them.
It was worth my while to download the new UCS base template and then proceeded to get the updated Ander build that Thindaraeil put together, mostly because everyone has been keeping up with the current-game powers and classes. I put my previous tweaks in to customize it the way I liked and off I went.
As I've been looking through the new UCS 0.4 set, I realized it's much too big for me to load and run with. Too much miscellaneous information cards that I might never intend to use. So I set about breaking down the main set into chewable pieces. Each class has its own set; the paragon paths are a set; the epic destinies are a set; each armor type is a set. You get the picture.
This brought up a concern for me, as the set of cards gets updated and moves forward. It's currently being posted as a full set, including all new updates. Is there anywhere that specifically lists the additions to the set in the update? Is it possible to ask for a set of only the updates, so I can add to what I have? With the set already above 5000 cards, it's a daunting task to think of having to compare all the sub-sets with each newly updated mega-set to find out what's missing.
Just a questioning thought...
Next to Monster cards, this is probably the biggest request I'm seeing right now for the UCS.
Based on that info, I'm making it a priority for Beta 5. Because of the work I'm doing with the DnDI Character Editor, I've already in the midst of a program that 'splits the deck' based on the options selected in the saved .4EDND character file. Since the UCS has all the fields that split the cards by type, it should be fairly simple to make the Deck Splitter an open tool that will split any mega-file you give it into a series of set based on internal specifications. I'll slate this program for the Beta 5 release.
This will push the DnDI Character Printer out a bit, but I think it's worth it based on all the requests I'm seeing.
-- Hirahito