Any chance of Paizo selling blank template cards?

[Fromper]

Malwing wrote:

I'm hoping for blank sheets for home made scenarios and adventures.

I originally responded to this saying I'd like blank template cards, but then I realized it should probably get its own thread and deleted that post.

Any chance of Paizo publishing blank cards that you can write on to create your own monsters, weapons, spells, villains, etc?

Just looking at the card types, I'm thinking that we wouldn't need blank card templates for character, role, token, adventure path, adventure, or scenario cards, because those could be done on paper, so they don't need to be on cards. Template sheets in pdf form would be cool for those, but we wouldn't need Paizo to print cards.

So that leaves 11 card types that I'd want to see included as blank templates (locations, villains, henchmen, monsters, barriers, weapons, spells, armors, items, allies, and blessings). Since Paizo seems to print cards in multiples of 55 or 110, that could be a box set half the size of the current add-ons with 5 blanks for each of those 11 card types. Or maybe adjust it to have more or less of certain things, depending on relative need. ie Less villains, more monsters, maybe even leave out blessings. Or maybe sell smaller booster packs of just one type of template (11 blank monster cards for $3, etc).

Or they could make a blank card usable for all of the banes and boons that just has slots at the top for the type of bane/boon, so you can use them for anything. I think the lack of colors to make them stand out would make those less appealing, but they'd be more useful for anyone designing entire scenarios from scratch.

[Malwing]

I saw talk of adding templates to the community use packet but I think printing blanks for villains, henchmen, monsters, barriers, weapons, spells, armors, items, allies, and blessings would not be terribly useful.

Marking printed cards in Magic: The Gathering, and the Pathfinder Item cards have proven to me that doing so is a pain and often a waste of time.(sleeves less so but about as problematic) Printing out cards for spells have proven to me that doing so is time consuming, expensive and comes with varying quality making things less random. Overall I think that it's less viable to make custom products that have to be shuffled into other things.

A possible solution around that, as far as I can figure, is printing out blanks with generic reference Numbers or titles that allow you to look at a book or piece of paper to figure out exactly what it is. (I don't like this idea)

But I am very much in favor of sheets or pads of card-sized sheets to make custom cards that do not shuffle into things, considering that a piece of paper could easily replace these things much like the character sheets can replace the character cards.

[ViolentNny]

Malwing wrote:

I'm using card sleeves with printed backs on all cards the 1 sided cards, so that when I get around to making the templates for it, I'll be able to slip in a random non-PACG card into it with the printed one in front. Feels and looks identical to a regular PACG sleeved card.

I've already seen several print-and-play custom scenarios that others have made, but I'd still much prefer to see Paizo come out with a card generator or .psd file templates.

[Dracones]

Rather than blanks, I'd prefer to see core pack releases. For example Bestiary 1, Advanced Players Guide classes, Inner Sea World locations, Ultimate Equipment, Ultimate Magic, etc.

And rather than ranking the monsters/cards off of AP1, 2, etc they could mark them with CR1, 2, etc(CR = Core Rules) to give you an idea of the card power levels.

This would allow people to create their own adventures by mixing and matching things from the stock core game. Paizo could also release conversions of popular modules pulling in cards from the various core sets.

If the card game remained popular I could almost imagine Pathfinder splitting out into a sort of dual release thing. Companions, Chronicles, Modules, etc all coming out with card packs along with their usual rpg component. The artwork is recyclable and the marketing could pretty easily point to both product lines.

[Fromper]

I'd love to see that too. But I still want blank cards so I can create my own cards. Even if it's just a pack of blank backs and plain white front to write whatever you want on, though I'd prefer the colored borders so you can spot the card type instantly when you flip it in your deck.

For now, since I sleeve anyway, and only have a couple of custom card ideas so far, I can create a card on paper, and put it in a sleeve with one that I don't mind removing from play (probably a short sword or quarterstaff :p ). But I don't want to do too many of those.

[TClifford]

I'm pretty sure that someone made a graphic of the card on the BBG boards that has shown up on the Variants section. You could make up your cards with that graphic, print them out, and just slip them into sleeves with another card....

[Fromper]

TClifford wrote:

I'm pretty sure that someone made a graphic of the card on the BBG boards that has shown up on the Variants section. You could make up your cards with that graphic, print them out, and just slip them into sleeves with another card....

I've looked, and all I found was a partially filled in template for a new spell. If I have some time, I could probably make my own passable blank templates, but I'm not exactly an expert at editing graphics.