First off, the wiki is a fantastic resourse for SotM information. I noticed the other day that they have a complete list of promo cards for both heroes and villains, however for most of the heroes there is only an image of the front side of the card and no image for the back. There has been lots of talk about people printing their own copies of the Promo cards and that GtG is fine with people doing that to have access to the promos. My suggestion would be, as long as GtG consents to it, to post high quality, unmodified images of BOTH the front and incappacitated sides of all the promo cards so that people can have a central place for all of their promo printing needs. I know that Chrisopher posted both sides of Super Scientific Tachyon lately and that was really great.
I know I would love something like this if I was a newer player because my experience has been that finding high quality images of the fronts are not too hard to find, but it has been pretty difficult for me to track down unmodified backs. The best I have been able to do for some of them is to use the images from Spiffs oversized cards which are slightly modified from the originals. For some other promos I have found the incap sides, but only very low quality images that don't print well.
Hah! I actually contacted Adam about this a few weeks ago and he kindly sent me all the incaps. Bandwidth isn’t a problem : we don’t pay for that. Space is, but we have plenty left (over 200mb) and I will be getting those incaps up. Im just trying to find the best way to do it. Wikidot code isn’t the best, unfortunately. I was hoping for a module that would let me put both images in one spot and you could flip between them, but doesn’t seem to be the case. So I’ve been fiddling in what little spare time I have in the best formatting solution. Soon as I figure that out the incaps will end up on the wiki!
Edit. Oh you want the actual incaps, with the abilities. Well, unfortunate ly he didn’t send me those, just the full low res artwork. However, it’s still not terrible scanner res, just not like 30mg a file res. With the incaps written on the wiki it should be possible to kinda make your own if you don’t like the ones bgg has
It's missing the WotC expansion promos and SST and the resolution for the incaps isn't the best for some of the cards, but for general purposes it works. And for about $6 at Fedex/kinkos, you can have them printed on high quality, thick paper. For me this works until >G does the re-release of the promos after the game is done.
If you want something more "card-link", you can always order from ArtsCow using one of the many pre-done packs like:
That's just one pre-done order someone did. I believe the price is the same for a subset or a compete set. There's always:
Which has just one set of promos, but includes some game helpers as well. You can also upload the images for Super Scientific Taychon as well from one of the other other posts on the >G forums.
I still don't understand how you actually order anything. As far as I can tell, you have to log in before you can even try to create a product, and I dislike it when a website takes that tack; I like being able to play around and get the hang of their software, before I commit to giving them any of my personal info.
Then try Printer's Studio. I think you can play around with it without giving your details, but if you want to save a project you have to create an account.
Or you could just make stuff up when registering. That’s what I do when I just want access to a site without giving my real informat. I mean, clearly Benjamin Metzler is a fake name.
Thats a really nice file so thank you for the link. The incap resolution is pretty bad though. I actually ordered with those same backs from printerstudio and they are useable, and readable, but not very nice looking. Still better than nothing though.
Depending on how low the res is, between those images, other images and knowing the text it might not be too hard to put together a good looking image in gimp or photoshop… which is exactly what you said in your last sentance. I look forward to seeing the artwork soon and giving it a try. Do you have an idea when it might be available?
probably in the next 2 weeks or so. Changing over on jobs right now so its a bit hectic for me, but soon as I can figure out how, Ill be working on getting it together
Any progress on this? Or could you or someone post some high res images of the promos fronts and backs in a zip? The pdf from BGG doesn't help if you want to print your cards off from the Printer Studio site.
I just wanted to let you know fox that I appreciate all the work you put into this community. Thanks for working on this and don't stress yourself too hard with it, I will wait patiently until you are able to get to it or pass it off to someone that can help out.
If I could get a hold of the images of all the backs and fronts of the promos, I'd do the prep work for them to upload to Printer Studio. Then I would post a zip file with all the images ready to go. That would make it easier for people looking for the promos. Let me know if I can help in any way.
You can ask Adam or Christopher (adam @greaterthangames.com or christopher@greaterthangames.com) for the images. Not sure what their response will be but it might get what you guys want quicker than waiting on me!
I contacted the GtGs guys about this and got a fairly quick response asking exactly what I was looking for. However since responding to them I haven't heard back (I'm sure they have a lot going on). Any updates on your side of things linkfox?