PF Spell Card Template


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Hello to all...

I've seen a lot of threads around here about various solutions for spell cards, but most of them tend to be either flat out boring, or they're too small to fit even most spells on them. Seeing as I recently started a wizard character, I wanted a better way to keep track of spells than 12 pages of print-outs.

My solution is the PF Spell Card Template, designed to be used with Magic Set Editor 2, a program originally meant to create fan-design MTG cards. However, it's capable of making any sort of card, as long as someone's made a template. So, I designed and created a template specifically for PF spells... I posted a few links (one from each school of magic) below.

Elemental Body
Foresight
Ghost Wolf
Hideous Laughter
Interposing Hand
Mind Blank
Permanency
Scintillating Pattern
Temporary Resurrection

A few points... the jagged edges one may notice in the pictures are gone in the template; that was a compression issue. Also, no card would be big enough to carry all the information contained in spells like Detect Magic or Permanency, so in these, it's probably best to just add a bit of the text and then a page reference. Lastly, it's important to note what I'm providing here isn't a finished set of cards; it's a means for anyone to create their own set.

So... to use this, one simply has to download the template file from this link here, while Magic Set Editor 2 can be found at this link here. Once downloaded, simply install MSE2 first, and then unzip the folder containing the template files. In there reside a few fonts which will be necessary, so install those. Then, simply double-clicking the file pfspells.mse-installer should open up a Package Manager (part of MSE2), and you click on each of the three components (opening each drop-down box) and select 'install'... and it should be done.

To use it, start MSE2, select 'New set' and in the new window, under 'Game type', find PFSpells. There's only one style choice for now, so select it and click OK, and it's time to make cards. The process for making a spell card is pretty easy, and I can elaborate in another post if need be, but the one important thing is to click on a bit of the card which isn't in a box to choose the spell school (and therefore the border colours).

Apologies for the massive post... Feel free to critique my design; it's definitely not perfect, I only came up with it a few days ago :P Suggestions for improvement are most welcome and encouraged, since I'd like this to be something anyone would be happy to use. I hope this resource is useful :)


These are gorgeous! Thank you for posting this template. I haven't had luck printing out the other spell cards but hopefully this will work a little better.
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These are nice looking. I will be trying them out, after I've entered a few of the information for some of the cards, and have my laser cartridges refilled.

Thanks.


Thanks for the response guys :)

I'm very interested knowing how they come out in print, since I've not been able to try that myself yet. It's possible to print directly from MSE2 but I've not tried this yet... my usual method used to be exporting all the cards as .png pics and printing them individually.

Let me know if there are any design changes I should make to the cards, too.


Awesome! Can you post a link to download the actual template?


Darigaaz the Igniter wrote:
Awesome! Can you post a link to download the actual template?

I did, it's found at this link, it should be a zip file with the .mse-installer file plus a few fonts :)


I was playing around with the text in the border areas, and the white glow simply doesn't do a good enough job with contrast. So I switched to white text with a black shadow, and I think it looks infinitely better... download the modified template here.

For anyone who has used the black text, let me know if this seems like an improvement.


Sorry for the multiple posts, but I keep fixing things :P

I noticed that some targets were insanely long (see Open-Close, for example), so I modified that field to be bigger, and multi-line, so it can include all the target information. Hence, version 1.2, downloadable here. Enjoy.


Hello again...

Yeah, it's over a month since the last post, but in the meantime I've manufactured about 45 of these cards and I wanted to show people what's possible with this template in real life. So, check out these three links...

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/710/img0712a.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/713/img0713k.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/836/img0714ly.jpg/

I bound them together with rubber bands which go through two holes I punched in the top, through the plastic laminate I encased each card in. Doing this manically in one night before a game, it only took 3 hours straight to do 45ish cards...

If anyone else is using these, it'd be good to know :) On the same note, critiques and suggestions are also very welcome and will most likely be incorporated into any later versions of this template.


These look very nice!

Now to try to find the time to create my own :)


These templates look nice!

Recently, I've been looking into making cards to keep track of spells and various info to organize myself better, and I'm liking what MSE has to offer.

Any chance of creating a black and white printer-friendly version of this template that's light on ink usage?

Have you also considered expanding into templates for various types of items/gear?


These are nice, but would it be possible to change the text in the top and bottom colored bands (the Title and such) to WHITE so it is actually legible once printed? I can barely read the black titles on the LIGHT blue and CAN'T read them on the other colors at all. :(

If you could possibly make an alternate template file with that one little change I would massively appreciate it.
I would love to be able to use these for spell cards but I really can't read the titles and that just makes it so hard to find the spells. :(

Thanks again for making these. Best to you.

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