Although I love what you've done with the spell cards, it's going to take an awful lot of ink when printed. Are you going to publish the cards in b/w with no backgroud art to save on printing costs (for us, I mean)!!
Kudos on your work!!!!
Although I love what you've done with the spell cards, it's going to take an awful lot of ink when printed. Are you going to publish the cards in b/w with no backgroud art to save on printing costs (for us, I mean)!!
Kudos on your work!!!!
Welcome to the boards, Jorgecthulhu.
Welcome to the boards, Jorgecthulhu.Although I love what you've done with the spell cards, it's going to take an awful lot of ink when printed. Are you going to publish the cards in b/w with no backgroud art to save on printing costs (for us, I mean)!!
Kudos on your work!!!!
Thanks!!!
I can't load the "planar Ally" spell card. Has any one eles had problems with this one?
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First off - Caedwyr well done these are very nice indeed.
Is the idea to print the jpg that you have linked to the forum or will there be a high resolution version available?
imho - the white background has detracted a little from the card. Whilst now more readable, the beautiful artwork is obscured. Maybe try a san serif font?
Times looks better, with either the 1pt or no shadow - hard to tell on that card.
Could you do a mock-up between those two options on a card with darker artwork? Because I think that's going to be where it really matters.
Pyrotechnics2 does not look like the same font as Deep Slumber2.
If that's as dark as it gets, then I think that no shadow is preferable.
It might be different when printed grayscale, though.
I've finished several more cards:
Telekinesis
Obscuring Mist
Planar Ally, Greater
Planar Binding, Greater
Links?
Just want to add my appreciation and anticipation for this project.
Just saw this project thread.
Great work! I appreciate all that your doing! And look forward eagerly to your final version!
Keep it up!
Alt5 is my vote - no "white" shadow or serif's on the font's to hide the wonderful background artwork. Text is maintaining readability.
I have to agree, but I'm not sure if this will look the best after being printed.
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Hate to put demands on your very, very awesome work here, but could you please, pretty please, focus on first lvl spells first?
I know that it's difficult to find the right artwork, and that you're doing this for free, and I love you, man, but I'd love to show up with spell cards for my new lvl 1 cleric next monday.
Greetings all!
Great work you're doing here. I would also eventually be interested in the photoshop files - or even be able to help out (I'd have to see how my workload becomes this week before I promise anything, but I like to do stuff like finding art and playing around with photoshop, etc).
I agree to several of the points that's been mentioned. There is a readability issue and also an issue related to card sizes. I also have a design issue, or perhaps more of a suggestion, when it comes to the border around the text.
So, first off there's the text. With background images I agree that the plain black text is hard to read, so I like the various types of shading you have done with these later cards. However, I'm not really sure either of the alternatives is what I would've tested (at least not once being presented those alternatives).
The 3pt shadow looks too big. It's fairly easy to read, so no problem there. but I think it makes the text look mushed together. The 1pt (50%) on the other hand doesn't enhance the text enough. But the 75% opacity looks ok (and of the choices given, I'd prefer this), but it makes the text look rather sharp. So, I would like to propose a 66% opacity on either 1pt or 2pt (50% might look ok with 2pt, as well).
For the absolutely reader-friendly version someone's expressed interest in (normally I'd be polite and quote you guys, but having just read through some 100+ posts it's been hard to follow what's been said by who and such). I'd suggest simply having the spell school's color fill the whole card's background (ie. where the picture would've been), and keep the white layer that brightens the background/picture (possibly increasing its opacity). Or, going even further, simply a white text-background (as I believe has been suggested). Those cards would also serve as the B/W alternatives (saving a little ink without those pictures.
As for card sizes I agree to that the big cards looks cool, but also that it would overall be better to have only one card size. On the other hand, the spells with long descriptions are often spells you don't always use in combat (though I noticed that so far most of the large spell-cards are...). But it's a question about what's more practical than not. I do agree that it would look best to keep the text on only one side, but I think the backside should be spell-specific. It should have a standard background (like, say drawn/painted wooden floor-planks or chainmail links or dragonscales etc) and hold the spell's short information (as presented early in the spell chapter). This would include name, short effect description and possibly school and level as well. That way a player could at a glance see if that or this level could be apropriate for the situation (despite the fact that, yes, you would already know what the spell does since you had it prepared in the first place).
I also mentioned the borders around the text-box on the cards (and by that also the background for the level) earlier. These have the same bright blue/silver color on every card. May I suggest that it should instead have a bright version of the spell school's color instead? Doing so wouldn't take away the overall consistency you get by having it in one color for all cards; it would simply add a different form of consistency. To exemplify: Pyrotechnics (A transmutation spell using blue) looks better than Deep Slumber (an enchantment spell using green) in that respect. (That is, save for the fact that Deep Slumber has art with a lot of blue in it and Pyrotechnics with lot of green in it, but that's beside my point).
Well, I think that was my two cents (and they seemed to last pretty long as well!). I'll drop you a note when/if I have some time to spare and I'll give you a hand.
(Speaking of which, I got the impression from an earlier post that you were looking into possibly making cards for class abilities as well?)
Why are there no more links? Links, please.
Stunning! I particularly like the classical paintings used. Very cool!
3 cheers!
Thanks Caedwyr. More great work!
I can't get Giant Vermin. Anybody else had any luck with it?
Caedyr is also a river, flowing to his people!
These are awesome, thanks for all your hard work! I'm looking forward to the pdf release.