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Well, I have nothing important to do right now; my father-in-law is in town for a visit and I expect him to be over in about an hour and a half, after that the rest of my day is pretty much shot.

The upside? 90 more minutes of card creation. I just spent an hour or so cleaning up the image on this card
*pause*
Let's take a moment again to thank chuu for the Apocalypse artwork, and just to appreciate how hard he really works on this stuff. I did a pretty mediocre job cleaning The Breeding Pens artwork, but it's passable. There were multiple text bubbles and narration boxes. Chuu did a spectacular job on Apocalypse. Seriously, this stuff isn't easy (well, not for me), and he does a really high-quality job while still putting stuff out at a good pace. Chuu, you're totally boss.
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and now that I'm finished, I can post actual new stuff that I've started on!

EDIT: Isn't it the worst when you see a problem on a card? I forgot to adjust the first 1 to the right size font. I guess I really do need to make a comprehensive edit sheet.



There's at least one more location coming, though if I'm honest I feel like to support Homebases and Battlesites there probably need to be 7 or more Locations (since they'll be at a higher "rarity" compared to most other cards and I'm pushing them pretty hard so that people will actually be incentivized to Homebase). Right now I have 4 "done", and I haven't done The Sea Wall or The Shi'ar Empire yet.

Hopefully you guys are liking this stuff, and it looks almost like an actual set. I've started to tinker with template creation for the two types I don't have (Teamwork and Artifact), but it looks like that will take a while. Give me a little credit, before I started this project I'd never used photo manipulation software before. In the meantime, I'm going to work on Locations and Universe Cards.

Yeah, I'm including Universe Cards. I need them for Gambit, if nothing else, but I also want to have some "filler" cards that are the kind of thing you'd never play in constructed but in draft are awesome. 8E +3 Universe? Probably not so much in a tournament deck. 8E+3 Universe in your draft deck featuring X-Man? Probably better in your deck than some of the worse Specials or other cards you drafted.

I also started the rules insert!

Site connection looks great.  I'll have to take some time to read through for changes from the older versions.
I actually had noticed the Colossus lack of an 8, but I figured you'd get to it during the edit phase.  (Didn't think it would be that fast!)
As far a "back-dooring", someone else will have to chime in.  I point & click, and very little else.  (old dog, new tricks kind of thing)
I have no problems personally with a location having less than 6 characters, it just makes it a little weaker if used as a battlesite.  I've seen them with all kinds of numbers of characters.  Usually the larger ones (8 or greater) have a caveat that they cannot be used as a battlesite.  So it fine as is unless someone else has a beef.

thanks for the recognition DoktorSleepless...I think you truly are sleepless at the rate that you are pumping out these cards. As for my work, I've been using Photoshop for a long time (self taught) before this I was using it to make artwork for custom arcade sticks and that was A LOT more involved than fixing art for cards is.  That's because the area that the art was on was usually 8 x 11 inches or bigger, (biggest area i've done is 10 x 48 inches) so it was harder to hide imperfections Sometimes I would spend up to an hour and a half to remove unwanted images where as now the most I ever spend cleaning up an image is about 20 minutes.

yeah excellent work... keep it up

i think changing Storm's innate would make her more selectable in a deck...

drop the +1 bonus to intellect attacks, i would add a +1 attack bonus to her specials, its a capped boost and you don't need anything to take advantage of it

she has a 4E, 4S/I, and an 8 E/F/S. special so it would bump them to a 5 and 9, a good bonus

i agree

Fantastic suggestion. As soon as I removed the perfect-parallel ability from her and Domino (in spite of my desires for symmetry, it was obvious that you can't in fact have a +2 bonus to attacks and expect it to be functional in a world of 9-is-the-magic-number and the Witchblade). I'll make that change on the next roll-through of edits (read:tonight. I do a lot of OP stuff between 8 p.m. and 1-2 a.m.).

@chuu: It's obvious you've got experience/skills at photoshop, so that makes it all the more impressive you're self taught! Like I said, I spent at least an hour to 90 minutes cleaning up the breeding pens, and realistically it only involved straight lines, color fills, and some shading. It gave me a much deeper appreciation and respect for your skills (which is not to say I didn't appreciate or respect them before!). Still, I think it's important to recognize people doing good work who are an asset to their community, so I gotta toss you props whenever I get an opportunity.

As far as the 5-character issue on The Eurasian Council, I may end up leaving it as-is. I refuse to modify locations with characters who have no association to the location, and I can't come up with anyone else for it. For now, I'm going to set it aside and let the issue roll around the back of my head while I work on other cards. I'm a little concerned about a small sub-section of characters getting all the Location love, so I'm going to try and focus on Locations like Deep Space/Shi'ar Empire and X-Mansion/Whatever it's called in AoA next, so I can get Gambit/Jubilee/Strong Guy/Dazzler/etc onto some locations.

Anyhoo, I'll post any new stuff tonight up in this reply as an edit, but all the new stuff is being saved into my OP AOA Expansion Master File, so it ought to show up in the photo album of the set at the same time I load it here. Which is good, because the set is already way too big to post here in its entirety (well, for me. Probably there's some easy way to do it that I don't know about).

Thanks for all the support and positive feedback guys!

EDIT:
How long were you guys going to let me go before someone mentioned that Sunfire has a character card (and therefore based on his presence in AoA should have an AoA one as well)?

Well, no worries, I caught that today while trying to finish out a character list for the Infinite Processing Plant. He's now on the Location, and is on my short list of stuff to do.

Unfortunately, I can't fill out the Shi'ar Empire to 6 characters even if I do Starjammers. I'll only have Gambit, Jubilee, X-Ternals, and Starjammers. 4 isn't nearly close enough, especially if one doesn't exist yet. So that is probably out.





Anyway, I'm going to try and get Morph and Sunfire taken care of soon, now that I've got 2 "loose end" characters. That'll put the set at 36 Characters (plus 10 more specials in addition to the 2-3 each for the 2 teams).

i can try to do some research if you want to help find characters to fit in location cards, just give me some detail

Well, I'm certainly not going to say no! Sunfire is done, I'll post him up in a second.

At this point though, I'm not sure how many locations are left.

Amazing X-Men - Mostly dealt with the east coast, near Apocalypse's Citadel/The Sea Wall (Sea Wall is being worked on soon).
Astonishing X-Men - Mostly dealt with Chicago and Indianapolis (the Infinite Processing Plant)
Factor X - Mostly dealt with The Breeding Pens and Apocalypse's Citadel
Gambit and the X-Ternals - Mostly dealt with the Shi'ar Empire
Generation Next - Mostly dealt with the Seattle Core
X-Calibre - Mostly dealt with Avalon. I MIGHT be able to do Avalon if I made characters of Juggernaut/Mystique/Callisto/Dead Man Wade(deadpool), to which Nightcrawler could be added. But I'm not planning to do that right now. Juggernaut and Callisto get very little face-time in the comics and Mystique never really uses her powers. Plus, I fear running out of steam if I push myself hard trying to fill out 5 specials for a bunch more characters who barely appear 5 times.
X-Man - They were traveling, I forget where they stop. Now I need to re-read X-Man. But given that only X-Man and Sinister have cards, I would have to make at least a Forge and a team card for Outcasts and a Soaron card to have the minimum characters.

Anyway, I'll keep brainstorming locations. In the meantime, enjoy this!


I am torn over this, so please chime in. Of course (because they have to make life hard) OP put him at 7E for his base version.

REALLY OP? The AoA version is clearly an increase in his powers/abilities, and they even make mention of it (how the genocide of Japan caused his powers to flare out of control... this was before they had introduced the idea of a "secondary mutation" like Emma Frost's diamond skin, but I assume this would be ret-conned to that). So I feel obligated to make him an 8E. But now his grid is disturbingly similar to Dark Phoenix (thanks for that, by the way, OP. Because I'm sure a world-eating cosmic being dwelling in the corrupted mind of Jean Grey is a 21 point character. Because that sounds about right if Apocalypse and Onslaught are 23 point characters, doesn't it? Sure.)

The point is, though I feel he should be 8E, I don't want to force his stats lower but he seems to compare too favorably to objectively much stronger 8E characters from comics. I could probably see an argument for 7E-6F instead of his current grid.

RE-EDIT:
Sweet, I get some card making time for a little bit this morning. Here's Morph, who makes me sad I have to redo all his art because I don't have scans of the original.


Nothing too exciting here, just a "reprint".

Are any of the downloadable scans from overpower.ca of high enough quality to suit your purposes?

Well, like a bonehead I had no idea there were downloadable scans!

I'll check them out tonight when I get from the day out with the in-laws. I really hope they are! I love Morph's original art pieces!

In the meantime, I'm about to run out of card making time for the day. So here's all of Sunfire's Specials.




After I get home and have some time, I'll check the downloadable scans and hopefully get Morph taken care of. Then I believe it's time to do at least one round of 4 Universe cards, if not 3 rounds (I should probably have a decent number of Universe cards in the set, to be honest... there needs to be enough other filler to dilute the the Specials for drafting and sealed).

looks great, if any of the previous Morph special art works, use it again

Just got home and checked out the Downloads at Overpower.ca.... GAME CHANGER! I got exactly the art I wanted with minimal alteration (just the OPD being on the art in the cards, which I only had to half-erase before I could cover it with the OPD I use). The cards flew together because I could just click to the next frame over in my GIMP window to reference the appropriate code, text, name etc.

Morph specials are finished, I may or may not go back and use the character art as well (I kind of like the art I ended up with).

What do you think? I used the 500x700 scans to do these.




Chuu, being totally awesome, has offered me the use of his teamwork template. This is my public thanks... THANK YOU CHUU!!!

Since I have a good universe template and now Teamwork incoming, I should see a lot less slowdown in card production while I keep working on the Artifact template. This set is coming together incredibly quickly, for which I can only thank everyone in this forum. Particular thanks to Chuu and teesaw (come back buddy, we miss your customs!) for their enormous assistance with this.

Does anyone know who runs OverPower.ca? I would like to donate the .png files of the entire AoA set to them once it is complete, so that anyone who would like access to the set will have it. I noticed they had a homemade downloads section with 3 different versions of The Marvels; maybe I'm off base but there seems to be lots of people who dig Power Balance, but his stuff isn't up there. I'm assuming it's because he needs to recoup costs on printing, so he doesn't want people to just print their own copies. I have no such issue. I'll happily order multiple sets from a printer when I get mine, so that others can chip in and we get them all at once for a cheaper rate. But if other people want to use AoA on their own terms, I would be tickled pink for them to be able to download and print it themselves.

Hopefully more cards will come later tonight, but we're headed to Golden for pizza later so I'm thinking this may be it for today. 

Overpower.ca is Jack's Baby, send him a message

Cool, I will.

Check out the fruits of your template! I might end up having to switch the text to black for it to show up better.

for Sunfire i would keep his stats... i would change his innate to energy power cards instead of just energy cards, or give his (NJ) code special useable from reserve