Online Tool for Homebrew Quick Build Cards

By J1mBob, in X-Wing

Want to make completely custom, homebrew ships? Vader in a Defender?

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(Thanks @Phelan Boots for your help and this card!)

Han in the Shuttle Tydirium?

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Or try your hand at bringing a different SciFi franchise to the table?

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Homebrew Quick Builds

This tool allows a wide range of customization: choose any image on the web for the card image, upload your own faction icons and ship icons, invent new upgrades with attack values, charges, etc. It also allows you to assign a threat value (up to 8!) to your creation for use in the Quick Build format.

I would love to see your creations and feel free to post them in this thread!

This tool took a significant amount of work to program (maybe because I'm not very great at programming!). If you like it, please consider supporting this tool and the others available on infinitearenas.com by becoming a Patron ! On the site you can find some very popular X-Wing gaming aids like the Card Browser , the searchable Unofficial Rules Reference , Maneuver Sheets for printing, the Quick Build Squad Builder , and several different ways to make quick build cards ! A special thanks to the six community members that are supporting infinitearenas.com at the time of this posting! And a special thanks to @Tervlon for his support and debugging help on this Homebrew tool!

This is an amazing tool! Thank you for developing it! I have a ton of custom ships that now have quick build cards thanks to you. Quick build is the perfect format for homebrew ships since the cost increments and power level are pretty easy to do a gut check on without extensive play testing. I will try to post a few shortly!

Here are a few of the ships I have designed with the tool. I've used the tool to get my 3D prints on the table. It has been a ton of fun. Yes, there are some seriously illegal combos here, as there should be in quick build!

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Here's one I made for the Swordfish II. If anybody has any suggestions to improve it (or what the points should be for this), I'd love to here them

https://imgur.com/a/j7B63nU

18 hours ago, bob gringo said:

Here's one I made for the Swordfish II. If anybody has any suggestions to improve it (or what the points should be for this), I'd love to here them

https://imgur.com/a/j7B63nU

Looks like it should probably be a 4 threat card to me. The nice thing about threats is that they allow you to fudge points in favor of how the build feels next to others of similar price.

I have to say, love this tool. This has allowed me to get so many customs to the table and we've had a ball.

My two fixes would be to add energy to the stats and to allow energy, shield, and charges to recharge up to 3 per turn. This will allow a lot of fun Epic conversions.

One additional request is to allow the homebrew cards to also populate on 2 cards as is an option on the QBSB tool.

Is there an option to make the card normal sized? Or is it locked at quick build sized?

On 9/3/2020 at 10:35 AM, kewlguy360 said:

Is there an option to make the card normal sized? Or is it locked at quick build sized?

I’ve experimented with smaller layouts but the card design quickly becomes cluttered. So at this time there are not smaller dimensioned card options.