Dark Magic & Blessings of Khaine cards PDF

Ragian Cain · Post by **Ragian Cain** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:51 am

EDIT!: Edited these Feb 2013. New version at same link. Uses the same border element as the GW ones and some typography tweaks.

Created these for my own use, please feel free to use them if you'd find it useful.

Dark Magic & Blessings of Khaine cards PDF

Gastronauticon · Post by **Gastronauticon** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:58 am

Looks like a 404 to me. The magic cards look good though!

Ragian Cain · Post by **Ragian Cain** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 12:08 pm

All uploaded now!

Cold73 · Post by **Cold73** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:24 pm

Wonderfull..thanks mate...these put my hastely my word scriblings to shame.

well done.

Post by **Dyvim tvar** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:56 pm

I grabbed the Dark Magic cards before, and the Cauldron Cards are of the same high quality. Excellent job.

Ragian Cain · Post by **Ragian Cain** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:43 pm

The Dark Magic cards have had a background tweak and a back cover tweak to match the Blessing cards FYI

Gastronauticon · Post by **Gastronauticon** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:58 pm

Very nice indeed.

Post by **Daeron** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 3:34 pm

Ohh... I had a similar work on my long list of "things I could do someday" but it's nice to be beaten to it with such a classy result!

I do have two remarks:
1) The dark magic (well all the artwork used) seems to be pasted on the parchment texture using the "darken" blending. This is the classic trick to make a drawing in black on a white background appear as if it were printed on the new background. For your skulls it works out alright, but personally, I feel the "white" parts of the dark magic back picture look a bit odd considering they aren't supposed to be "holes" but glowing white.
If you want to change that (not sure if that's your aim though!) you needn't be afraid to let the back picture "not" layer over the parchment texture. It won't damage the card's style as a whole. (But then making it entirely white may not be good looking solution either). You can fiddle around with the parchment in two ways: you can either use the drawing as background, and use the parchment in a layer on overlay and a layer on darken... or you can simply duplicate the drawing's layer and set it to overlay or lighten (or a layer with each), then use varrying levels of transparency to adjust the glow effect to heart's content.

2) One of the reasons I put my own remake of magic cards on the long track is the fact that Games Workshop took down its own 6th ed magic card PDFs. This implies that the IP of the magic cards is now limited to the book. There's also no publicly available reference sheets, AFAIK.
I wouldn't be surprised this is to protect the IP and sales of their own magic cards. Your PDFs might be in violation with their IP laws.

xFallenx · Post by **xFallenx** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:22 pm

These are great! Thanks.

Ragian Cain · Post by **Ragian Cain** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:00 pm

@ Daeron: Thanks very much for your feedback, so in order

1) Thats the aesthetic I was going for, in a previous version it was as you described

2) If the IP Ninjas come knocking I will of course take them down, IP infringement is of course not my intent, just an aid for fellow gamers in the absence of an official one (which I would buy in a heartbeat) I hope people fill their boots until then.

Lorddrittz · Post by **Lorddrittz** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:02 pm

Nice cards saves a lot of time and effort

Ragian Cain · Post by **Ragian Cain** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:09 am

The ones I have are laminated in individual sleeves, makes them much more solid and sturdy.

Post by **Daeron** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:53 am

I may make my own copy. They do look splendid and I will be using dark magic soon enough.

Sulla · Post by **Sulla** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:57 am

Very nice indeed.

Shadowstalker18 · Post by **Shadowstalker18** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:21 pm

Very nice! Thank you for posting.

Mkv · Post by **Mkv** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:11 pm

Very nice...

...surely I'll use for the next tournament

Brennan · Post by **Brennan** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 8:17 am

Anyone got a copy of these available? The link no longer works..

email brennanmatheson@hotmail.com

Thanks!

Ragian Cain · Post by **Ragian Cain** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 8:41 am

Still works for me dude.

Post by **Calisson** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:24 pm

Link checked. Works fine.

Norelle · Post by **Norelle** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 3:16 pm

They look cool! Well done!

Masked jackal · Post by **Masked jackal** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 12:00 pm

Thank you for these! I'll put them to use as soon as I can figure out how to print them out on something that looks good.

Post by **Daeron** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:53 pm

Masked Jackal wrote:Thank you for these! I'll put them to use as soon as I can figure out how to print them out on something that looks good.

A good tip for that is simply to discuss it with the people from a printing company or at a copy center (Not during a too busy hour if possible). They usually have all the tricks and know-how to make them look perfect.

Scyloc · Post by **Scyloc** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:28 pm

Great work.

Thank you very much.

Ragian Cain · Post by **Ragian Cain** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:58 pm

EDIT!: Edited these Feb 2013. New version at same link. Uses the same border element as the GW ones and some typography tweaks.

Kendoka · Post by **Kendoka** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:52 pm

Thanks!
Looking great.