I actually got inspired to do all of this work based on the folks over at MSE. When I first started doing this, I was cross-posting my work over there.
The first problem is, they couldn't really do anything until all the photoshopping was done. Realistically, all I wanted were the templates for Movie Block-- I wasn't going to do the Uruk-Hai template, Evil Men, etc. which conflicts a little bit with some people's desire to make cards from every template. (For the record, they didn't actually have the fonts available-- just the names of them. I had to actually go finding the fonts myself.)
The second problem is, photoshopping this stuff is very, very time consuming. I've developed a fairly good system, but depending on the culture, it can still take me several hours to get all the cards for that culture ready to use.
In fact, the template work that was done over at MSE was even better-quality than mine, because they scanned hi-res images of the cards and then edited those scans (which I stole some of). That's way, way harder than what I did, which was to take the lower-res images off of this site's card library and then edit them (which is still a very slow process). I didn't plan on doing any high-res printing of these things, so I only wanted to make these cards available online-- and the highest resolution really necessary for online play is the resolution of the cards on the database.
So, as much as I want to spread the love around, I chose to ignore the many, many requests I got for the templates for two reasons: 1) I haven't finished them all, and 2) I worked my butt off to make these templates, find the fonts, get the pictures, assemble the cards, and put them on display for critique. While I do eventually plan to release the templates I make, it would be very, very frustrating to hand out my work before the Power and Temptation set is complete, flooding the forum with people making their own image-based card sets and drowning out my own.
Call me selfish, but after all that time spent, I wanted to give my set first priority to be finished before I gave it to anyone else.
That said, once this is done, I will be giving out the templates. I think currently almost all of them are complete, except for the couple that I lost, along with the fonts. Once all the templates are done, making the cards is the easy part.
If I can get the Rohan templates back, and get the fonts back, I can slowly start making progress on this again. But as I said, the fonts... I just don't want to go hunting for them again.
Topic: Power and Temptation-- New Set [CARD IMAGES] (Read 26821 times)
