Tuesday 23 March 2021

Digital spell cards for LotFP

 So I got this great idea of making all the spells found in the base rulebook of Lamentations into cards because it is absolutely jarring having to copy+paste all the spells that are listed alphabetically rather than by level and class every. single. time. that you create a new character, especially with clerics who always know all the spells for their given level.

Now, the idea here was that since Roll20 allows the GM to make card decks as well as allowing players to draw whicever cards they want from the deck as well as to make the deck's contents infinite, it would speed setting up spells significantly if you could just fish the cards from the deck and have them easily available for referencing rather than having to scramble for them from your character sheets, expanding text boxes as you go to be able to read the full contents of the spell description.

Allright allright, a neat idea by itself. But. There was just one tiny little problem after having spent a day making the cards themselves. Roll20 limits the amount you can upload your own files in there, and doubly so for free users. 
The free user storage limit is 100mb, while the cards by themselves already size up to around and over 180mb. So that's a no go for me then as I only barely was able to squeeze up to level three spell decks for both Cleric and the MU.

For those out there who want to use the cards yourself, they're available here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fgbchg0D0MySxPgIHYG1kHs2Zfe4CgAL?usp=sharing


Example spells and cardback


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