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Okay so I just tried to use the card generator and it was all messed up, so I'm gonna explain as much as possible so that you can hopefully work out the issue.
First details, I'm on a Dell Studio running windows 7.
I chose wizard level 1, large cards (4 per page), Auto color by spell school, and select individual spells, print spell level in title.
When the selection came up, I selected all abjuration spells and hypnotism.
When the page with my cards came up it was not set up to print 4 a page, Instead it's set up 4 cards wide, 3 rows. When I tell it to print, it says I have a total of one page to print, and then I got a print of one page with nothing but 3 lines at the top of the page and the website header. One page with four spells and the headers of two more spells (ending on the components line), the next page contains what was left of the 2 spells from the previous page, 2 fully usable spell cards, and the header of two more spells going down to the description line. Then the last page has the remains of those last two spells. Oh yeah and even though I'm set up to print in color, all the spell cards printed in black and white.
So yeah, no clue what's going on there.
Alright, wasn't able to reproduce the problem. What browser are you using? Also, what version?
Few things to remember from the printing instructions:
- Designed to be printed on US Letter paper with half inch margins (though it actually seems to work with .75 inch margins now, as well) If printing on a different size paper (such as A4) you may need to adjust the scale and the margins.
- In your print settings, you need to turn on "Print Background Colors and Images" or else the cards will be in black and white.
If you could post a screen shot, that would really help.
Okay so I just tried to use the card generator and it was all messed up, so I'm gonna explain as much as possible so that you can hopefully work out the issue.
First details, I'm on a Dell Studio running windows 7.
I chose wizard level 1, large cards (4 per page), Auto color by spell school, and select individual spells, print spell level in title.
When the selection came up, I selected all abjuration spells and hypnotism.
When the page with my cards came up it was not set up to print 4 a page, Instead it's set up 4 cards wide, 3 rows. When I tell it to print, it says I have a total of one page to print, and then I got a print of one page with nothing but 3 lines at the top of the page and the website header. One page with four spells and the headers of two more spells (ending on the components line), the next page contains what was left of the 2 spells from the previous page, 2 fully usable spell cards, and the header of two more spells going down to the description line. Then the last page has the remains of those last two spells. Oh yeah and even though I'm set up to print in color, all the spell cards printed in black and white.
So yeah, no clue what's going on there.
Alright, wasn't able to reproduce the problem. What browser are you using? Also, what version?
Few things to remember from the printing instructions:
- Designed to be printed on US Letter paper with half inch margins (though it actually seems to work with .75 inch margins now, as well) If printing on a different size paper (such as A4) you may need to adjust the scale and the margins.
- In your print settings, you need to turn on "Print Background Colors and Images" or else the cards will be in black and white.
If you could post a screen shot, that would really help.
Would it be possible for you to add the feature to scale to A4. Many europeans (including me) would probably like to use this app.
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Would it be possible for you to add the feature to scale to A4. Many europeans (including me) would probably like to use this app.Okay so I just tried to use the card generator and it was all messed up, so I'm gonna explain as much as possible so that you can hopefully work out the issue.
First details, I'm on a Dell Studio running windows 7.
I chose wizard level 1, large cards (4 per page), Auto color by spell school, and select individual spells, print spell level in title.
When the selection came up, I selected all abjuration spells and hypnotism.
When the page with my cards came up it was not set up to print 4 a page, Instead it's set up 4 cards wide, 3 rows. When I tell it to print, it says I have a total of one page to print, and then I got a print of one page with nothing but 3 lines at the top of the page and the website header. One page with four spells and the headers of two more spells (ending on the components line), the next page contains what was left of the 2 spells from the previous page, 2 fully usable spell cards, and the header of two more spells going down to the description line. Then the last page has the remains of those last two spells. Oh yeah and even though I'm set up to print in color, all the spell cards printed in black and white.
So yeah, no clue what's going on there.
Alright, wasn't able to reproduce the problem. What browser are you using? Also, what version?
Few things to remember from the printing instructions:
- Designed to be printed on US Letter paper with half inch margins (though it actually seems to work with .75 inch margins now, as well) If printing on a different size paper (such as A4) you may need to adjust the scale and the margins.
- In your print settings, you need to turn on "Print Background Colors and Images" or else the cards will be in black and white.
If you could post a screen shot, that would really help.
Well, as of my patch this morning, it seems to work on A4 paper now, just fine, for both the large and small cards at 3/4th inch margins...
So if you have 1.5 cm margins on A4 it should work fine. I'll update the printing instructions to match.
What is the standard European sizes for index cards?
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I get error:
"Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /homepages/21/d180875808/htdocs/thegm/perramsSpellbook_printCards.php on line 147"
when choosing:
Class: Cleric
Level: 2
Size: Large
Color: Blue
Select Individual Spells? Yes
Print Spell Level in Title? Yes
and choosing the spells:
Aid
Bull's Strength
Calm Emotions
Darkness
Death Knell
Delay Poison
Find Traps
Lesser Restoration
Also, the details for Bulls Strength are missing. See screenshot here.
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I get error:
"Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /homepages/21/d180875808/htdocs/thegm/perramsSpellbook_printCards.php on line 147"
when choosing:
Class: Cleric
Level: 2
Size: Large
Color: Blue
Select Individual Spells? Yes
Print Spell Level in Title? Yesand choosing the spells:
Aid
Bull's Strength
Calm Emotions
Darkness
Death Knell
Delay Poison
Find Traps
Lesser RestorationAlso, the details for Bulls Strength are missing. See screenshot here.
Thanks for the heads up! Should be fixed now.
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Custom Spell Generator Page
1) Can you make a plain white version for embedding?
2) There is a typo "(e.g. "socerer/wizard 1, cleric 2"...)" Note the spelling of socerer
3) Can you make "Range" a dropdown with "Personal", "Touch", "Close" etc as choices or an option for "special, see description" ?
4) Casting Time (e.g. "1 action", "1 round", "10 minutes"...) I think you might want to change "1 action" to like "1 standard action" ?
5) I created a spell titled "John's Great Spell" which when the card is generated appears as "John\'s Great Spell" (note the added backslash before the apostrophe) I assume the backslash is escaping the special backslash character.
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Thanks for the heads up! Should be fixed now.
The error is gone and Bull's Strength shows up now. Excellent!
One minor niggle... So the option is to print 4 large cards but I have a wide-screen monitor so it shows 5 cards wide, but the fifth card (in the screenshot linked above is Darkness) is about 1-2px lower than the other cards. I assume that's due to some sort of wrapping issue. In reality that would really have no impact on anything since the overall idea is to print them then cut them out so who cares about 1-2 px, but if you want to be anal about it you could look into that. Again though, its really no issue in any real sense of the word other than looking odd :)
Oh, one other thing, the check box for "Print Spell Level in Title" is offset a bit (I added another screenshot on the same page linked to in previous post).
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Custom Spell Generator Page
1) Can you make a plain white version for embedding?
2) There is a typo "(e.g. "socerer/wizard 1, cleric 2"...)" Note the spelling of socerer
3) Can you make "Range" a dropdown with "Personal", "Touch", "Close" etc as choices or an option for "special, see description" ?
4) Casting Time (e.g. "1 action", "1 round", "10 minutes"...) I think you might want to change "1 action" to like "1 standard action" ?
5) I created a spell titled "John's Great Spell" which when the card is generated appears as "John\'s Great Spell" (note the added backslash before the apostrophe) I assume the backslash is escaping the special backslash character.
1) Yup!
2) Fixed!3) Will look into it!
4) Fixed!
5) Fixed!
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Thanks for the heads up! Should be fixed now.The error is gone and Bull's Strength shows up now. Excellent!
One minor niggle... So the option is to print 4 large cards but I have a wide-screen monitor so it shows 5 cards wide, but the fifth card (in the screenshot linked above is Darkness) is about 1-2px lower than the other cards. I assume that's due to some sort of wrapping issue. In reality that would really have no impact on anything since the overall idea is to print them then cut them out so who cares about 1-2 px, but if you want to be anal about it you could look into that. Again though, its really no issue in any real sense of the word other than looking odd :)
Oh, one other thing, the check box for "Print Spell Level in Title" is offset a bit (I added another screenshot on the same page linked to in previous post).
All fixed
The line you were seeing was actually an invisible <hr /> tag that I used in order to force page breaks. It shouldn't be in the way now.
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The line you were seeing was actually an invisible <hr /> tag that I used in order to force page breaks. It shouldn't be in the way now.
I just generated another list (same spells and options as above) and the fifth card in the top row is still offset by a couple of pixels. That's it. You are full of fail. I will NEVR US THIS TOOL NW!!!!#**!!
:)
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The line you were seeing was actually an invisible <hr /> tag that I used in order to force page breaks. It shouldn't be in the way now.I just generated another list (same spells and options as above) and the fifth card in the top row is still offset by a couple of pixels. That's it. You are full of fail. I will NEVR US THIS TOOL NW!!!!#**!!
:)
What browser are you using? I can't seem to replicate the issue. (also, try deleting your temp internet files for the page in case your browser is trying to hang on to the old CSS file.)
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Perram,
I just wanted to jump in and say:
1.) I am grateful for your willingness to create this tool.
2.) I am impressed with its versatility
3.) Most of all, I am impressed with your willingness to accept and use the criticism given to improve your product.
If I owned a business, and that business needed a programmer, I'd make you a job offer.
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What browser are you using? I can't seem to replicate the issue. (also, try deleting your temp internet files for the page in case your browser is trying to hang on to the old CSS file.)
I normally use Firefox but was using Chrome when I was generating those lists. In any event, I have now tried it using Firefox and the offset is not there, so it is likely it was a caching issue.
Ok, you rock again, ignore the previous post. Chalk it up to the infamous "id10t" error :)
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What browser are you using? I can't seem to replicate the issue. (also, try deleting your temp internet files for the page in case your browser is trying to hang on to the old CSS file.)I normally use Firefox but was using Chrome when I was generating those lists. In any event, I have now tried it using Firefox and the offset is not there, so it is likely it was a caching issue.
Ok, you rock again, ignore the previous post. Chalk it up to the infamous "id10t" error :)
This is going to be an issue I won't be able to get rid of 100% of the time, that little white space is what makes it possible for IE users to print the cards correctly.
Sorry folks.
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Perram,
I just wanted to jump in and say:
1.) I am grateful for your willingness to create this tool.
2.) I am impressed with its versatility
3.) Most of all, I am impressed with your willingness to accept and use the criticism given to improve your product.If I owned a business, and that business needed a programmer, I'd make you a job offer.
Thanks, I really appreciate the compliment.
Just trying to give you guys the best toy I can.
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This is going to be an issue I won't be able to get rid of 100% of the time, that little white space is what makes it possible for IE users to print the cards correctly. Sorry folks.
Well...
1) It's not happening for me anymore..
2) Does anyone actually use IE? :)
3) It's not even an "issue" when it does occur, since really big woop it offsets the card on the screen by a few pixels which doesn't matter because the idea is you print and cut them out anyway.. in all reality it might be nice if there was actually a few pixels between every card anyway to give room for scissors and to leave the borders on the card.. if you know what I mean?
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This is going to be an issue I won't be able to get rid of 100% of the time, that little white space is what makes it possible for IE users to print the cards correctly. Sorry folks.3) It's not even an "issue" when it does occur, since really big woop it offsets the card on the screen by a few pixels which doesn't matter because the idea is you print and cut them out anyway.. in all reality it might be nice if there was actually a few pixels between every card anyway to give room for scissors and to leave the borders on the card.. if you know what I mean?
The white space between the cards was actually removed in order to make it easier to cut the cards out, especially using office-like paper cutters or razor cutters.
It also had the side effect of making it fit on A4 size paper. :)
I'll look into this to see what the options are. Maybe I'll be able to make the borders bigger.
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The white space between the cards was actually removed in order to make it easier to cut the cards out, especially using office-like paper cutters or razor cutters.
It also had the side effect of making it fit on A4 size paper. :)
I'll look into this to see what the options are. Maybe I'll be able to make the borders bigger.
Ah, ok. I was just looking at them and thinking, "If I cut these out you won't be able to see the border on the cards very well." In reality though, I haven't tested that by actually printing and cutting any out yet though so take that with a grain of salt.
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Ah, ok. I was just looking at them and thinking, "If I cut these out you won't be able to see the border on the cards very well." In reality though, I haven't tested that by actually printing and cutting any out yet though so take that with a grain of salt.The white space between the cards was actually removed in order to make it easier to cut the cards out, especially using office-like paper cutters or razor cutters.
It also had the side effect of making it fit on A4 size paper. :)
I'll look into this to see what the options are. Maybe I'll be able to make the borders bigger.
I was able to thicken up the borders a bit, now it should be easier to cut them out and still see the borders around the cards well.
Excellent work, Perram!
You also asked me about european standards for index cards and afaik there really ISN'T one, but wikipedia makes a mention of the ISO standard being based on the A7 format which should be 74 × 105mm
Awesome!
Request: make Summon Monster Cards!
+1!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, so I printed off colour 1st level cleric 9/page cards and the text size is easily small enough to fit all the Command's info on to one card but it is split between 2?
Can this [and others] be fixed?
It just means using totally clear card sleeves.
I've found that on A4 a size on 110% works best for magic the gathering sized card sleeves.
Some of the table cards like Detect Evil could be in a better format, allowing the table to be read clearly.
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Okay so I just tried to use the card generator and it was all messed up, so I'm gonna explain as much as possible so that you can hopefully work out the issue.
First details, I'm on a Dell Studio running windows 7.
I chose wizard level 1, large cards (4 per page), Auto color by spell school, and select individual spells, print spell level in title.
When the selection came up, I selected all abjuration spells and hypnotism.
When the page with my cards came up it was not set up to print 4 a page, Instead it's set up 4 cards wide, 3 rows. When I tell it to print, it says I have a total of one page to print, and then I got a print of one page with nothing but 3 lines at the top of the page and the website header. One page with four spells and the headers of two more spells (ending on the components line), the next page contains what was left of the 2 spells from the previous page, 2 fully usable spell cards, and the header of two more spells going down to the description line. Then the last page has the remains of those last two spells. Oh yeah and even though I'm set up to print in color, all the spell cards printed in black and white.
So yeah, no clue what's going on there.
Alright, wasn't able to reproduce the problem. What browser are you using? Also, what version?
Few things to remember from the printing instructions:
- Designed to be printed on US Letter paper with half inch margins (though it actually seems to work with .75 inch margins now, as well) If printing on a different size paper (such as A4) you may need to adjust the scale and the margins.
- In your print settings, you need to turn on "Print Background Colors and Images" or else the cards will be in black and white.
If you could post a screen shot, that would really help.
Um, I'm running google chrome and I'm printing on letter sized paper. there isn't an option for my printer to print background colors and images that I can find, only to print in color or black and white.
EDIT: on second attempt, I only got three pages, but the pages are printing 4 full spells & 1/4 of the next two spells, making page 2 print out 2 full spells, the remainder of the two spells from the previous page, and 1/2 of the next 2 spells. Basically it doesn't have page breaks for each 4 spells.
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Ok, so I printed off colour 1st level cleric 9/page cards and the text size is easily small enough to fit all the Command's info on to one card but it is split between 2?
Can this [and others] be fixed?
It just means using totally clear card sleeves.
I've found that on A4 a size on 110% works best for magic the gathering sized card sleeves.
Some of the table cards like Detect Evil could be in a better format, allowing the table to be read clearly.
I've adjusted the split on the cards to take into account the new font. That should help some, command included.
I also see what you mean about the table cards. I'll look into those to see what I can do.
Why are there some cards with only a sentence or two?
The nature of the program is that these spells are being read out of a database, and the same database feeds all 3 card sizes. I have to have a hard cut off point for when (depending on card size) a new card is generated.
To complicate this further, each browser/OS combination displays the cards slightly differently, and that isn't even taking into account possible user settings that could be different.
I'm always trying to tweak the application to be a little better, but there is always going to be some card that was just a few words over the cut off on a given card size.
Thanks! This really helped me understand the problem. I think I've come up with a solution.
I removed the breaks from the ends of the lines. I've also switched over to Times New Roman, and Times as the fonts to try and enhance consistency of display.
Could you both please see if this solved the issues for you? Another screen shot would be wonderful!
Thanks again!
Yep, removing the line breaks made a huge difference. This is a great tool and one while will make a huge difference in our adventures.
I've adjusted the split on the cards to take into account the new font. That should help some, command included.I also see what you mean about the table cards. I'll look into those to see what I can do.
I should clarify these are small inconveniences, on the whole you're creating a very good product that will help many players and DM's, Thanks!
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Thank you for removing the line break elements -- it looks very nice now! And like the others, I'm also a fan of the color-coded spell schools. :)
On my 3x3 formatted page (using US Letter), the bottom sentence of Detect Magic is Overwhelming Functioning spell (spell level) 3rd or lower and the first line on the following card is minutes Overwhelming 1d6 days Outsiders and elementals are so I'm thinking some data was lost?
I think I have a way for you to auto-layout the text so that it always looks good but this will require some JavaScript work and your current pages don't use JS at all. Here's the plan:
1. Read the description from the database and put the text into one JS variable.
2. Create a div for the description field on the card and start putting data into the div one word at a time.
3. Check the div height after each new word and if the height exceeds the boundaries set by the spellCard CSS class, remove the word back out and "page break" to a new card.
There are a couple potential problems with this, the first being the flicker that might occur while the JS code is modifying the content of the div's. I can also see some lame, broken-arsed web browser not providing the correct height value (IE, I'm looking at you) although converting to XHTML Strict might fix that.
I've done a lot with jQuery (lightweight JS framework) and I can help with that, if you'd like. You can reach me at frank at eec com.
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Thank you for removing the line break elements -- it looks very nice now! And like the others, I'm also a fan of the color-coded spell schools. :)
On my 3x3 formatted page (using US Letter), the bottom sentence of Detect Magic is Overwhelming Functioning spell (spell level) 3rd or lower and the first line on the following card is minutes Overwhelming 1d6 days Outsiders and elementals are so I'm thinking some data was lost?
I think I have a way for you to auto-layout the text so that it always looks good but this will require some JavaScript work and your current pages don't use JS at all. Here's the plan:
1. Read the description from the database and put the text into one JS variable.
2. Create a div for the description field on the card and start putting data into the div one word at a time.
3. Check the div height after each new word and if the height exceeds the boundaries set by the spellCard CSS class, remove the word back out and "page break" to a new card.
There are a couple potential problems with this, the first being the flicker that might occur while the JS code is modifying the content of the div's. I can also see some lame, broken-arsed web browser not providing the correct height value (IE, I'm looking at you) although converting to XHTML Strict might fix that.
I've done a lot with jQuery (lightweight JS framework) and I can help with that, if you'd like. You can reach me at frank at eec com.
I was probably a little too aggressive with the cut off point. But thanks for the tip on JS. I'm familiar with working in JS, but was avoiding using it until I got all the alpha features banged out.
I'll probably ping you for some advice, though, thanks for the offer!
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I should clarify these are small inconveniences, on the whole you're creating a very good product that will help many players and DM's, Thanks!
I've adjusted the split on the cards to take into account the new font. That should help some, command included.I also see what you mean about the table cards. I'll look into those to see what I can do.
Unfortunately it looks like I'm going to have to roll back this change. I'm getting a few reports of cut off cards (like above) since I made it. Giving the choice, I have to print the extra cards.
I'm sure I'll be able to sort out the odd card here and there where the text covers more than one card. No worries, do what's best for the majority!
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I'm sure I'll be able to sort out the odd card here and there where the text covers more than one card. No worries, do what's best for the majority!
If its just a few cards, can I suggest using the 'create custom card' function and copying that card over and making edits there? That is what I'm using here for those few cards.
You may want to put a link in the Houserules section.
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Perram
I just wanted to voice a big, huge THANK YOU for the tool and your efforts. I'm planning to start the Kingmaker AP in a weeks time with my wife, our kids as well as a friend and her daughter.
My own daughter (the youngest of them all) just loves Lini. But playing a spell caster isn't the best option to start with. Well - we played D&D board game in the past and there spells are in the form of cards.
Your program will allow me to print out level zero and 1 druid spells and then just hand her a set of spells for the day. It will make it a lot easier for her (hand me the card if you used it) while she doesn't has to bother with the rule book.
From some earlier plans I even have a large stack of white cards the size of German playing cards - with multiple backgrounds. Bark seems the way to go for Druid Spells.
On a MAC and Safari it looks like printing 9 cards a time with 90% scaling fits my cards well enough. Now I just need some A4 self-adhesive labels and I should be done.
So Thanks again !!
Thod
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Perram
I just wanted to voice a big, huge THANK YOU for the tool and your efforts. I'm planning to start the Kingmaker AP in a weeks time with my wife, our kids as well as a friend and her daughter.
My own daughter (the youngest of them all) just loves Lini. But playing a spell caster isn't the best option to start with. Well - we played D&D board game in the past and there spells are in the form of cards.
Your program will allow me to print out level zero and 1 druid spells and then just hand her a set of spells for the day. It will make it a lot easier for her (hand me the card if you used it) while she doesn't has to bother with the rule book.
From some earlier plans I even have a large stack of white cards the size of German playing cards - with multiple backgrounds. Bark seems the way to go for Druid Spells.
On a MAC and Safari it looks like printing 9 cards a time with 90% scaling fits my cards well enough. Now I just need some A4 self-adhesive labels and I should be done.
So Thanks again !!
Thod
That's one of the best endorsements I could hope for. I hope you and your little girl have fun playing, its wonderful you can share time with her playing the game.
DUDE.
This is probably the best, most comprehensive, easy to use, and flat-out useful tools I've come across on the 'net. Another example of why the Paizo/Pathfinder community is the shiz-nizzy!
Thanks so much!
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Can't agree more. It's gonna be hard to top this one in overall functionality and general coolness factor.
It's funny, there is invariably a stage where lots of people try to explain what it is they want, and in general, everyone wants the same thing but they have a hard time describing it, mainly because even they don't know precisely what it is they want.
Then something like this comes along and you just look at it and say "That's.. it. He nailed it. I don't know that there is anything else to ask for, this is it."
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First let me say how awesome this is. A lot of good work here.
If posible, can you consider makeing one of the options for printing 8 1/2 x 11?
I like to create spell pages for my players that only pertain to thier character and your system would work so well for that.
Thanks for your consideration.
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First let me say how awesome this is. A lot of good work here.
If posible, can you consider makeing one of the options for printing 8 1/2 x 11?
I like to create spell pages for my players that only pertain to thier character and your system would work so well for that.
Thanks for your consideration.
How do you mean? Currently the cards print well on 8.5 x 11 inch paper fine, or were you wanting one spell per page or some other format?
I know this request will be a lot of work, so no is a valid answer (hell no is ok also!).
Can you add input of Caster level, ie. 6th level Wizard. Spell casting stat, ie. 18 int, and the spell focus(x) feats and actually calculate the DC's, Range, Number of missiles / dice damage etc?
-- david
Papa.DRB
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I know this request will be a lot of work, so no is a valid answer (hell no is ok also!).
Can you add input of Caster level, ie. 6th level Wizard. Spell casting stat, ie. 18 int, and the spell focus(x) feats and actually calculate the DC's, Range, Number of missiles / dice damage etc?
-- david
Papa.DRB
Working on this feature right now, actually. Expect to see it soon.
Edit: Unfortunately I won't be able to do the mumber of missiles / damage dice part, though. But I am adding in the option to have the DCs and Range pre-calculated.