toosigma

As an ardent fan of the new 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons, I’ve been creating power cards for my players to speed up and simplify play. After discovering the exceptional Magic Set Editor cards created by several designers on the ENWorld forums - I’ve resorted almost entirely to using their designs. In the ongoing and lengthy discussion, several of the designers (and yours truly) have decided to band together and pool our resources to create an even better result.

Currently, there are two proposed projects on the agenda:

• Create a unified standard GAME file - this file contains all the game-relevant information. By creating a unified standard, we should be able to facilitate updating all the various card templates with the latest game information as quickly as possible after release. It will also hopefully minimize duplication of effort, since each designer need only design their templates to match the standard, and won’t have to manually enter all the game information.
• Create a program that can read the D&D Insider Character Builder’s XML output files. That information can then be used to create a customized character sheet based on any of a variety of user-designed PDF templates. The data is also used to create a custom set of printable cards using the Magic Set Editor cards.

To help track the project, I’m creating some pages on the wiki and forum.

Anyone who wants to help contribute - feel free to register or drop me an email.

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