Card Templates – Would You Use Them? Your Preferences?

After creating a card template for @ThadeousC‘s “Dungeon Madness” cards, I decided that one thing I could do is simply provide some card templates from time to time allowing people to do with them as they please. There are a number of things I would need to consider, and I thought I would start by asking you a question…

If you would use a blank card template, what format would you prefer to get it in? Some options include a) simply a high res JPEG or b) a .PSD (Photoshop) file allowing for some tweaking of the look of the card.

The idea I am having is that I could create a “set” of cards. For example, I might make a set called “Standard”. This set might consist of 4 sheets. Each sheet would have a 3×3 layout of cards and be themed based on something like a color.

So, one day I might release a “Standard” set that has 4 Sheets with 9 cards on each sheet. Sheet #1 would be “red”, Sheet #2 would be “blue”, etc. In fact, I even created an example for you to checkout – a “Standard Red” sheet…

This is a 3.30mb JPEG (2,550 x 3,300 pixels @ 300 DPI)…

3.30mb Hi-Res JPEG Red Card Template
3.30mb Hi-Res JPEG Red Card Template

Again, I am curious about the formatting you might prefer when it comes to getting a card template such as this.

Please let me know here via a comment, or on Twitter, or email me – any and all feedback is appreciated!

Thanks!

3 comments

  1. I haven’t finished the Twitter feed yet, but my take is that I mainly use the Character Builder Cards. They’re good enough for what I need.

    Back when i was making my own cards, I was using Magic Set Editor 2. The nice thing about that one, if you want ot make Templates that work for it (.png IIRC) is that most of the card text has been entered by someone else, so you just adjust how it flows onto your cards.

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