Weapons Cards

By wonderboy1970, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

I have been working on card templates using Magic Set Editor (http://magicseteditor.sourceforge.net/) . Here is a sample of my current draft:

LowResWeaponCard_zpsa3ee4c75.jpg

I started with many of the graphics from TheDearth's Community Project files, but decided to mimic the format of the upcoming Adversary Cards from FFG. If anyone is interested in the template, let me know.

I have been working on card templates using Magic Set Editor (http://magicseteditor.sourceforge.net/) .

Very nice. I just wish there was a cross-platform version written in Java, or someone had managed to port the code to OS X.

Thanks anyway for your hard work! These look pretty cool!

Thanks for the feedback. Sorry you can't use them.

Very cool! Actually, this is getting me thinking... my generator has pretty much every piece of equipment published. Maybe adding printable equipment cards like this would be useful. All the stats are already there. Plus, you could even print out customized weapons and armor with all attachment info.

I like the format you used. Clean, simple, easily readable. The gears are grinding...

High praise indeed coming from you, Ogg! Thanks a lot!

Looks great, wonderboy!

Very cool.

Here is a sample of the backside:

LowResWeaponCardBack_zps58873562.jpg

I am cleaning up the template file so that I can make it available if anyone is interested.

Sweet!

One thing I might recommend in terms of design is to add a bit more padding around the text, for example on the back text. The words almost touch the lines in the grey box.

Anyway, very cool.

Great suggestion! I should be able to squeeze the text box a few pixels on each side.

Fantastic. How does one get acopy of your template?

I have a bit of cleanup left before it is ready for sharing. Maybe by the middle of the week.

Edited by wonderboy

Can I ask which fonts you used and how you managed to get the tapered box effect (i.e. the top section where the word Blaster Carbine is)?

I would suggest some sort of symbol, not just the same greenish box, for each of Damage, Encumbrance, Critical, etc. When making my own homebrew cards it made it much simpler to quickly glance at a card and find what you were looking for:

WeaponEE3_example.jpg

Oggdude I would contribute again if you added an ability to make cards out of gear/armor/weapons AND be able to add your own custom items!!!

...and umm, vehicles too? :mellow:

I will make a list of the fonts when I get some time with the PC. I created the tapered Text Box in Photoshop.

Thanks for the feedback Sturn.

OggDude! I would freaking love you if you did that. Hell my players would also love you.

This looks brilliant. I'd love to get involved. I've been making cards for my group using MS Publisher, and some Star Wars fonts I found on the internetz. We all use OggDude's character generator too so an option to create cards of our equipment would be off the scale cool.

Please do share you template. :)

wow nice.

i used to have something similar in another system.

one thing that system did was have the encumb figure in the top left corner. then the players could fan them like a hand of playing cards to quickly some up their total encumbrance amount.

Any news on the templates for these cards please?

Any news on the templates for these cards please?

I see you already found the templates from the thread at https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/91959-the-dearth-presents-npc-vehicles-and-starships-custom-card-template/

I’ve been using that PSD file and creating my own backgrounds for the armor cards I’ve been doing. See my thread at https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/204150-my-work-in-progress-armor-cards/

I can share my background graphics with you, but it would just be a JPEG, PNG, or PDF format file with graphics in it, and wouldn’t be a proper template where you could just fill in text fields.

You would need to take that file and bring it into a graphics editor of some sort, and then put all the other elements on there, including the text.

Do you have the template you made for magic set editor please as i have that program and its great.

Resurrecting this thread from the dead. Gear/NPC templates for MSE would be awesome. I'm just no darned good at templating for that, but it would make creating a full set of cards for later printing much easier and more convenient than, say, Photoshop.