Pathfinder Spell Cards: a MSE2 template.


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Yo guys.
For ages I've been looking around the site and the interwebs as a whole trying to find a better-looking set of cards for the entirety of PF spells, but unfortunately there's nothing out there. So, I took a program I've used before; Magic Set Editor 2, and decided to make a PF spellcard template for it. For those who don't know of MSE2, it's literally a 'make-your-own-card' bit of software, usually used to make Magic: The Gathering cards. It's extremely easy to use with the right templates.

Elemental Body

Hideous Laughter

Interposing Hand

Mind Blank

I only started learning the code for this yesterday, so I've not yet got an installer package for this template, but that should be sorted shortly. I'm also entirely open to any suggestions to improve this, since I want it to be as useful as possible to as many people.

Take a look, leave feedback, enjoy :)

edit: I wasn't sure if this was the right sub-forum for this, if it isn't, please point me to the right one :)


there were already a few tries to make spellcards, but those I saw were not very impressing in my opinion, the main problem was that some spell either needed really small fontsize or several cards, sometimes even both. This was probably due to the fact that they wanted cards the size of magic the gathering.

I like your layout but I wonder if you can do every spell in that format.

If you need to make space, the verbal/Somatic place perhaps only needs 1 line and ST/SR are also quite big.

The colours, mainly the red seem very intense, perhaps make it a bit darker of something, also if it isn't too much trouble a black&white stack would be of great use to some (= me).

Anyhow, I really like your size of cards, should be right for 6 per A4 page.

edit: or instead of B&W specific, just choose backgroundcolour that won't become the same as textcolour.


Richard Leonhart wrote:

there were already a few tries to make spellcards, but those I saw were not very impressing in my opinion, the main problem was that some spell either needed really small fontsize or several cards, sometimes even both. This was probably due to the fact that they wanted cards the size of magic the gathering.

I like your layout but I wonder if you can do every spell in that format.

If you need to make space, the verbal/Somatic place perhaps only needs 1 line and ST/SR are also quite big.

The colours, mainly the red seem very intense, perhaps make it a bit darker of something, also if it isn't too much trouble a black&white stack would be of great use to some (= me).

Anyhow, I really like your size of cards, should be right for 6 per A4 page.

edit: or instead of B&W specific, just choose backgroundcolour that won't become the same as textcolour.

The Component circles need to be as they are, since some spells have combinations like V, S, M/DF, which is why DF is the circle furthest to the right. Plus, some of the component descriptions can get really long.

True, the red is a bit bright, I can tone it down, and a B&W stack is entirely possible, except that means it's much harder to distinguish between spell schools by the colour alone.

For the SR/ST bit; yeah, it's leaving enough room for those exceptional spells with a lot to say.

In general, most spells can fit on these cards and remain readable, however there are some which obviously won't (case in point, Detect Magic). For these I'd guess it's a matter of putting in as much as one wants, and a reference saying 'see pg. X of CRB' or whatever.


I changed the colours of the schools a bit, generally making them a bit darker and less in-your-face. I also discovered how to add a glow around text so that meant I could do previously-impractically dark borders.

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

I included spells like Permanency to give an example of how these cards would deal with absurdly large reams of text; they'd just act like an index, and you'd need the core book to look the spell up.

Richard, by B&W do you mean these cards in greyscale i.e. just printing them without colour? If yes, you could just use the Universal school border, which is a neutral grey. Or do you mean literally no other colours on the card other than black and white?

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