Exciting news!
We have reached a Beta Phase for our upcoming Creature Card Generator, which will be an Exclusive Patron Benefit in the future, but is currently being opened up for testing to any of you wanting to try it out!
Here's the link: https://morvoldpress.com/creature-cards/
What is the Creature Card Generator?
This site was created to give you (the DM) a way to easily design and generate creature cards for your virtual or in-game session, walking you through all of the various fields to complete whatever creature you may desire.
The interface is pretty straight forward and simple:
When you open the page, you will see something like the above image. To begin, you will need to create a "NEW" card, which you can do by selecting the three horizontal lines on the left side to expand a panel (this will eventually be a button visible from the top):
This allows you create and manage creature cards that you have generated. You can collapse that side panel by selecting the horizontal lines again.
Once you're back to the main panel, you can begin populating the various pods/sections with your desired creature data. In the first box, you can specify the creature's NAME, COUNT (how many cards of that type you want to generate), load an image in a variety of ways, adjust the image position on the card and specify the artist name/credit.
We have created a "Browse Media Library" option that links to the H.O.A.R.D (Human Only Art Repository Directive), allowing you to select artwork from the gallery we've created.
Once you've selected a category (we are still in the process of building these out), then you can select the specific image.
You can also specify a URL, browse images on your PC or drag and drop an image you would like to use from wherever you want.
You can then continue through all of the other pods/sections, populating the fields with the creature data you desire. Some of the sections may not be relevant to your specific creature (i.e. Resistances), so each section has a box to "Mark as Complete", which will mark the section in red so that you know you have reviewed and approved all of the information.
Many of the fields will have tooltips designed to give DM's some common guidelines for selections made:
On the right hand side of the pods/sections, you will see a visual of your creature card populate in real-time, allowing you to see how everything is looking. You can click on those cards to expand them and get a closer view at any time.
After completing all of the fields, you will see a section at the bottom called "Page Settings", which allow you to play around with the various card sizes, page dimensions and printing options for printing them out physically.
If you would like to simply create some PNG files for the card itself, you can do that by expanding that side panel with the three vertical lines again, and selecting "Export Card as PNG" at the bottom.
We are also currently working on making it so that you can import creatures from the SRD and tweak from an existing framework, as well as pull in creature information from Foundry and vice versa.
There are also many other features we're looking to add, including having options to add existing Traits, Actions, Bonus Actions, Reactions and such already found in the SRD, to save you any extra typing, though copy/paste works pretty well.
So...go have fun!
Please comment below if you have any questions, feel free to come to the Discord and show off the fun cards that you make. I would love to see them! =)
Best,
Jeff @ Morvold