New Free Tool/Desktop App to Make RPG Cards from Markdown

TL, DR: We’ve created an app to let you check some boxes in a tree of various class abilities, ancestry traits, talents/feats, spells, and magic items… then it makes a PDF of them as cards on pages. Print, cut, and be ready for your next turn!  More details & download it here. At the moment it has data for the 5e 2014 D&D SRD and the Tales of the Valiant SRD (Black Flag) but more is expected ‘soon’.

In our game group (currently Tales of the Valiant) one of our players uses custom made cards not only for her druid’s spells, but also for every class ability and probably more (magic items, talents, etc.)

It is honestly pretty inspiring how she can be shuffling through these cards while waiting for her next turn.  Sure you could thumb through the book, but you’ve got to flip between a few pages of your class’s abilities (and your subclass!), a page for ancestry, several spread out pages in a whole separate section for spells, plus a few more spread out magic item pages.  Oh, and talents/feats too! And in many cases you’re picking one option out of a couple for some abilities–so you have to weed through those. (Did I pick ‘aim’ or ‘quick strike’?)

Sure, you could copy & paste the text all on one sheet of paper–although even at low levels that might take the front & back… then go to a second page at middle levels and so on. But that doesn’t let you pre-sort what your choices are for when your turn approaches: Drop the spells you’ve already used out of your hand.  As opponents move close to you or die, put your ranged and melee attacks to the front or back, depending.  Etc.

Cards are really perfect for this–After making a small custom set for myself, I loved it!

So wouldn’t it be cool to fire up an app with all the class abilities, ancestry options, spells, magic items and more as a tree.  Then just check the boxes of which items your character has and get a PDF with each as cards on pages?  Then laminate them and cut them out or skip the lamination cut them and sleeve them.  Done!

There’s a lot to be added.  The linked page has a list of what’s coming, but some key to-dos are: more data, let you decide where a long description should break to a new page, load in your own data, save your changed to the data, and more.  But it looks promising!