Custom Templates

[Hobbiton Lad]

As I've been unable to procure hi-res PSDs of the Decipher templates, I've decided to go ahead and work on creating some custom ones. Here's a link to Shire character and non-character templates that I've been toying with. They are still a work in progress, but I think I've finally gotten the concept where I want it.

I'd love to know what you guys think.

EDIT: The templates for the Free Peoples cultures are complete. You can view them below.

Dwarven
Character: http://postimage.org/image/3tgncbg7j/
Non-Character: http://postimage.org/image/ehkeb5q6n/

Elven
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/csfwgtzv3/
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/j7exdi6kv/

Gandalf
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/rj6310ekv/
Non Character:   http://postimage.org/image/xb6785oen/

Gollum
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/i7omhsrf3/
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/airs62qxb/

Gondor
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/3zucfepcf/
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/husmxvjrj/

Rohan
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/6xvwmumdr/
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/ozf1kngen/

Shire
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/x62fyhh3j/
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/qbwqmjdu7/

EDIT: The Shadow Culture templates are now complete as well.

Dunland
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/kvnq30g5r/
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/vddryrgzz/

Fallen Realms
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/3sky7hzgv/
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/kuds9lebz/

Gollum
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/z4rxytk27/
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/m3698yvnz/

Isengard
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/3ovq4zjdb/  (See if you can guess what the keyword means.)
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/9i5s5jv0v/

Moria
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/56cl2syq7/
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/pvpropb67/ (One of the few cards I feel should be reprinted.)

Ringwraith
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/zb5n1wt73/
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/ghju4wuz3/

Sauron
Character:   http://postimage.org/image/u9tnmswcv/
Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/wv3to2b4f/

EDIT: Here is the template for sites. This mockup assumes a fixed site path.

Site
Fixed Site:   http://postimage.org/image/485es005r/

EDIT: Last but not least... The One Ring

The One Ring:   http://postimage.org/image/hb11b9qdr/

[menace64]

Holy crap those texts look solid. Are those lifts from real cards or have you found the Holy Grail of custom texts?

I'm certain these will be worthless to you, but I blanked a bunch of templates years ago. They're all .bmp format (I've always been an idiot), but maybe you can make some use of them?

Imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/ggAH3#0

[Hobbiton Lad]

Holy crap those texts look solid. Are those lifts from real cards or have you found the Holy Grail of custom texts?

I'm certain these will be worthless to you, but I blanked a bunch of templates years ago. They're all .bmp format (I've always been an idiot), but maybe you can make some use of them?

Imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/ggAH3#0

None of that text is lifted from any cards. I believe that after hours of painstaking research (and one little change in a font editing program) that I've managed to find the actual font used by Decipher for game text. And if it's not, I'm 100% convinced at this point that it's the closest anyone will ever get without actually getting the files straight from the source.

Unfortunately those blanks you linked are too low of resolution to really be useful. The time it would take to clean them up is probably better spent just making new templates. Honestly, I feel like that's probably the best course of action at this point anyway. Given a month or two of work, I believe I can come up with professional looking templates that will be on par with (or maybe even a little better than) the originals.

Creating them from scratch, however, does mean coming up with new culture symbols. At least that's how I'm going about it.

[Cw0rk]

Wow. Nice job! It looks pretty cool.

[Hobbiton Lad]

Here are Dwarf templates I whipped up this morning:

Character: http://postimage.org/image/l3ezmz64v/

Non-Character: http://postimage.org/image/bwwozp0wf/

You'll notice on this character template that the resistance field is desaturated. This means that Gimli simply has 7 resistance, whereas on Frodo's card, the full-color resistance symbol is meant to indicate ringed resistance, which of course means he is a ring-bearer.

[Hobbiton Lad]

And here are the Elven ones:

Character:   http://postimage.org/image/7wfwcleq7/

Non-Character:   http://postimage.org/image/c6uk86jtb/

[Hobbiton Lad]

Gandalf Templates:

Character:   http://postimage.org/image/cjr0bh8en/

Non Character:   http://postimage.org/image/oa4xsv173/

[Cw0rk]

Wow. These all look pretty cool. What about signet?

[bibfortuna25]

A couple things: FOTSF has 6 base strength, not 7. And Hobbit Stealth should have a twilight cost of 1.

[menace64]

I gave you a serious nod of approval for your choice of the new Gandalf culture icon. These are great.

[Cw0rk]

I think that the Dwarven logo could look nicer if it was two axes crossed, instead on one axe.

[Hobbiton Lad]

Wow. These all look pretty cool. What about signet?

Signets will be pretty tough. I wanted to do templates w/ resistance first just to get the concepts in place. If people prefer signets to the resistance mechanic, I will go back and do them after all the initial templating work is done.

A couple things: FOTSF has 6 base strength, not 7. And Hobbit Stealth should have a twilight cost of 1.

Yes. Of course you are right. In my excitement to get the templates finished it appears I have made a few errors on gametext. Please try to overlook these if you can. These templates are intended for new cards. I'm just using old cards as a reference so people can get a feel for how things will look.

I think that the Dwarven logo could look nicer if it was two axes crossed, instead on one axe.

Ok. I will give that a try and post some updated images tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback!

[Hobbiton Lad]

I couldn't sleep so I went ahead and took Cw0rk's suggestion regarding the Dwarven culture icon. Here are the images. I think it turned out pretty well.

Character: http://postimage.org/image/l3ezmz64v/

Non-Character: http://postimage.org/image/bwwozp0wf/

[jdizzy001]

What is the purpose of all of these? They look amazing by the way

[Hobbiton Lad]

What is the purpose of all of these? They look amazing by the way

Thanks! I would just like to see the game continue in some capacity is all. In my local area, I'm considering doing a rebooted "2nd Edition" of the game, but to create cards I very quickly realized that I would need templates. Because Decipher's designs are copyrighted, and because they seem loathe to give them out for any sort of player-based handling of the game, I decided to create my own.

Originally, I had intended on created an entirely new game based on the LOTR system, but after some playtesting I feel like this system is better served for the Tolkien environment. So my game is on hold while I work on this project.