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Alters, alternate images and redesigns of cards from the Star Wars CCG by Decipher. THIS SUBREDDIT IS NEITHER AFFILIATED WITH NOR ENDORSED BY THE STAR WARS CCG PLAYERS COMMITTEE.
Alters, alternate images and redesigns of cards from the Star Wars CCG by Decipher.
/r/starwarsccgalters
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Star Wars: Rebels - Season 1 Cards
Star Wars CCG - Rebels Season 1 Cards
Well, the cards you'll see if you follow the above link were a 4 year long project…sort of. I started the card-making process during Covid. Then life came back to normal and I kind forgot about it. Then recently I rediscovered the notebook I used to make notes on card ideas and away I went on finishing the project.
Some notes on my card design philosophy with this set. First of all, I am not some power player at the top of the Star Wars CCG mountain. So, if you look at some of the cards askance wondering WTF was I thinking given the state of the game, I wasn’t ‘thinking’ per se. What was I doing instead? To sound a bit Star Wars nerdy, I was letting the Force guide me. That is to say, I didn’t have some particular card designs in mind and designed cards around those (with two exceptions I’ll get to later). I watched the show and used events or what was said as inspiration for card ideas. The exceptions: Force skills and missions. The Force skills idea cam about when I wondered how to translate Jedi/Sith/Dark Jedi Force abilities into the Star Wars CCG. I ended up treating them essentially the same as weapons.
To explain missions, I feel compelled to state my playing style/philosophy. I dislike laying out 30 cards (yes, an exaggeration I know) on the table (e.g., defensive shields, starting effects). To me that feels like half the game has been played before it has even truly begun. And, specific, to a Star Wars game involving a mystical element such as the Force, playing that way it seems to me that takes away from a mystical Force guiding an out come to a certain extent by giving you much of what you need as opposed to working for it. Now, I’m not here to debate the wrongness or rightness of that view. I only state that view for context on my drove some game design choices, more specifically as it applies to missions. Missions are one-sided objectives. Given my dislike of laying out a bunch of cards on the table at the beginning of a game and also due to the fact I most frequently play by printing cards where double-sided cards are a bit more tedious, I created objectives. Unlike objectives, missions go in the deck and stay there until drawn. They give you a task to accomplish and a reward upon completing that task.
Other thoughts to provide context to the cards. Strenuous playtesting? Yeah, nope. Three person crew here for this project: me, myself, and I. So, playtesting was not thorough. Editing was an issue in that another set of eyes would have been helpful. I continue to have the feeling I missed some obvious spelling or graphic design error. Wording. Some of the game text wording might seem a bit off from the norm. I tried to keep it within the accepted ways to phrase things, but I may have gone astray at times.
So, there you have it… May the Force be with you.
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I don't know if MPC is still hit and miss, this may be worth a look
Noted a thread with an Australian commercial printer offering to do proxies. Doesn't look like a home operation.
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MPC:1 Me:0
Submitted an order last night. Shot down this morning. 🤦♂️
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Custom Rogue One Draft Set
Hey all - After some conversations at GenCon last year I set out to make a custom set based on Rogue One - specifically designed to support draft event play. I am happy to report that the set went over well at GenCon this year and I have just finished setting up a page on my website for it to live. If you want to check out the cards, download hi-res image files for each, read some back-story on the creation process and my intentions, etc - you can find it here: https://owenstrombeck.com/games/swccg/rogueone/
Any feedback is welcome! Thanks!
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Printingproxies.com
Has anyone tried printingproxies.com recently? Looks like they have a section for Star Wars CCG (though not the best quality images). I was thinking about doing some of the remastered cards through it. I checked out some of the reviews on their Discord and they look awesome. Price per card looks pretty spendy, but if you're only looking for a few...it might be the ticket
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Malevolence idea...
10:39 UTC
Printing options
Hey guys. Just tired to put an order through MPC like the old days hut it got rejected. Any other options come up in the past year or so?
Many thanks!
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One More Alter: Anime Style
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Shield help...
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Star Wars Unlimited Proxies
Does anyone have a link to some high quality scans for Star Wars Unlimited? I all but a few cards but am still missing a handful of legendaries. Thanks
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Gurney Halleck
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Duncan Idaho
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Duke Leto Atreides
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Now that Minor Sectors has been released, I'm thinking about working on Clone Wars content...
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Prequel Jedi?
Has anyone made ccg for prequel Jedi- Even Piell, Yaddle, Oppo Rancisis yet?
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My recent success with MPC - Tips
I just successfully printed 1116 Star Wars CCG alters from MPC, without any copyright rejections (received within 1 week!) and thought I'd share my experience/tips (see below for images)
For the cards I used Andyt563's drive because the images and especially the backgrounds, borders, and text are super high quality.
- I chose the cards from the "4lackground Errata" folders (if they existed there) because they've been conveniently updated with errata text, then used the regular cards that aren't in the special subfolders because they have the classic black background.
- Note: The "Errata" versions of the cards have a gold inner-border to identify them, which you may not prefer.
- Note: He's still working on adding more cards, so the collection isn't complete but there's a TON there
I used the specifications from the stickied thread: A guide to using MPC to print cards and image sizing / card preparation
- I did not need to use MPCFill, I front-loaded my order with Sites and Systems (which are less recognizable as "Star Wars") and back-loaded with Objectives and Systems. In the middle I put all the characters, devices, effects, interrupts, etc. - they may have helped pass the review
- I used the proxy backs from this thread - this most likely is what passed the review, others have reported success
- You don't need to make any adjustments if you use the images from his drive
Tips for uploading to MPC:
- You can drag-drop as many files as you want into MPC's file upload area, it just takes awhile to upload, then use the link that transfers them into the card area for you automatically
- If you want multiple copies of the same card, you can't just copy-paste the same file multiple times, they remove duplicates during the upload process (presumably that's a feature?). Tips:
- Drag the card multiple times into the card area (annoying)
- Copy-paste as many duplicate files as you want then run a shell script to loop through the files and add a (hidden) unique comment to the metadata of each file to cause the file to have a slightly different checksum that passes their duplicate check (see script in comments)
- If you're trying to front-load and back-load, create 3 separate folders for your images "Front", "Middle", "Back" then upload the images in that order, then use the link in the MPC interface to transfer them and assign them to each card. That way they'll be in the position you want when you place your order.
I hope this helps!
Arrived shrink-wrapped in a box - smaller orders you might need to choose a box during checkout
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