Hello, all! I'm new to the forums here. I recently downloaded Strange Eons and decided to try my hand at making some custom cards for X-Wing, so I thought I'd share what I have so far. I've made alternate pilot cards for existing pilots with character art in the place of ship art, some cards for existing pilots flying different ships, new crew cards, and a few other things. Some of the abilities are based on custom cards made by others that I've seen on this and other forums, so if any of this seems familiar, that'd be why -- I definitely don't mean to take credit for others' ideas!

I mostly made these for fun -- I did try to keep them somewhat balanced with the rest of the game, but they'd probably only be for casual play. Any thoughts or opinions are welcome!

Existing Pilot Cards w/ Character Art:

New Pilots For Existing Ships:



New Crew Cards:



New Title Cards:



New Elite Pilot Talents / Other:

My only criticism (which probably applies to the original artist and not you) is that the art selected for Jess Pava looks nothing like Jessica Henwick.

I'd love to print these out and use them for Home Brew Games these are awesome

Some beautiful looking cards there!!

I haven't delved too deep into the cards, but the first thing that really struck me was Kylo Ren. He's the only one that uses something that looks like a "real" image, instead of one that is drawn in a brighter, less real style. It'd be the only thing that I'd change, visually.

THe custom pilots and upgrades are pretty cool and have pretty balanced abilities, though I've not looked in detail at costs.

Mirax is too awkwardly worded though. She'd be better worded 'When you would discard an EPT upgrade card, you may discard this card instead'.

18 hours ago, PoeticEdda said:

I haven't delved too deep into the cards, but the first thing that really struck me was Kylo Ren. He's the only one that uses something that looks like a "real" image, instead of one that is drawn in a brighter, less real style. It'd be the only thing that I'd change, visually.

Yeah - preferably by removing Kylo from it completely!

Thanks for feedback, everyone! Agreed on the Jess Pava card artwork -- I couldn't really find a pic of her I liked in a style that seemed to fit. I liked the Kylo Ren pic since it's him doing what he does best (throwing a hissy fit :D), but stylewise it is a bit mismatched. Finally, I did have some trouble getting the Mirax card worded in a way I liked, so point well taken there.

Made a few revisions based on your suggestions. See what you think of these:

Also made a few new crew cards to play around with:

15 hours ago, Calredic said:

Thanks for feedback, everyone! Agreed on the Jess Pava card artwork -- I couldn't really find a pic of her I liked in a style that seemed to fit. I liked the Kylo Ren pic since it's him doing what he does best (throwing a hissy fit :D), but stylewise it is a bit mismatched. Finally, I did have some trouble getting the Mirax card worded in a way I liked, so point well taken there.

Made a few revisions based on your suggestions. See what you think of these:

Also made a few new crew cards to play around with:

I like the updated art. I liked the Kylo Ren from before as well, but the new one looks pretty good.
But, my critiques:
Captain Phasma seems overpriced. The ability to shred stress on an ally while costing an action yourself, and gaining a stress seems more like a 2 point ability.
Admiral Holdo should be Primary Weapon only, and probably add "Huge Ship" to limitations.
Doctor Aphra should be Scum at least, and arguably available for all 3 factions.
Thrawn is worded funny. I don't know how I would do it, but probably something like "During the activation phase, you may discard this card to treat all friendly ships as having pilot skill 0 and treat all friendly ships as having pilot skill 12."

8 hours ago, Yakostovian said:

Thrawn is worded funny. I don't know how I would do it, but probably something like "During the activation phase, you may discard this card to treat all friendly ships as having pilot skill 0 and treat all friendly ships as having pilot skill 12."

Did you mean this to be enemy?

You are right though - there is no need for as much text as is currently on the card.

Oh, and I think this revised wording needs a"... until the end of this round. "

Then the question comes down to whether the opponent should be made aware you intend to trigger the effect before they've set their dials - in which case, it should be "At the beginning of the Planning phase..."

(triggering it after dials are set would be super funny though - since the Thrawn player would know they plan to do it and set dials accordingly, but the opponent wouldn't... the benefit of the 0/12 method is that at least the opponent can decide their own activation order to minimise the disruptions)

29 minutes ago, ABXY said:

Did you mean this to be enemy?

You are right though - there is no need for as much text as is currently on the card.

Oh, and I think this revised wording needs a"... until the end of this round. "

Then the question comes down to whether the opponent should be made aware you intend to trigger the effect before they've set their dials - in high case, it should be "At the beginning of the Planning phase..."

(triggering it after dials are set would be super funny though - since the Thrawn player would know they plan to do it and set dials accordingly, but the opponent wouldn't... the benefit of the 0/12 method is that at least the opponent can decide their own activation order to minimise the disruptions)

I had misread the card when I typed my version. I was operating under the assumption that Thrawn's ships would move first and shoot first instead of normal pilot skill and initiative order.

For a corrected version: "During the activation phase, you may discard this card to treat all friendly ships as Pilot Skill 12 for the duration of this round."

Now, this is the apparent intent of the Thrawn card, though the activation phase is probably too OP for a mere 5 points. The balance may be in the fact that this would be a one-trick pony, so it may be appropriately priced.

Good call on the Thrawn card. That’s pretty much exactly what I was going for: For one round, once per game, start to finish, all of your ships get to move last and attack first. Treating them all as PS 12 is definitely a more elegant way of doing that than what I had, so thanks! I’ll work up a new card for him when I get home.

11 hours ago, Yakostovian said:

probably add "Huge Ship" to limitations.

Exactly what I thought too!

And I meant to ask this earlier. Where do you get your artwork??? It's really good!

-DD

OK, some updates:

On 4/19/2018 at 8:38 PM, Darth Drago said:

Exactly what I thought too!

And I meant to ask this earlier. Where do you get your artwork??? It's really good!

-DD

Most of it is just from a Google image search, but for a few I combed through Deviantart.

those look awesome

nice job, only thing for me is that gavin and tyria seem too much like weapons guidance and sensor cluster, other than that they are really cool!