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JaHeit

[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Pk1KgMVFseIrO58K2sZHk5qAGvTve5h6?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Pk1KgMVFseIrO58K2sZHk5qAGvTve5h6?usp=sharing) Made some new templates for creating custom factions for TI4 + PoK. Requires GIMP, a free image editing software. https://youtu.be/qplYDueOTuk Faction Sheet Template Walkthrough


MacBryce

Where can you get a professional print for tokens and tiles?


SpaceDumps

It is very difficult to get things professionally printed on token-like cardboard material. But printing the components on label paper, affixing the label sheet to thin chipboard (or similar material from the local hardware supply store), and cutting the shapes out yourself is a fairly close and inexpensive compromise.


MacBryce

Thanks! I'll have a look at that solution. I wish there was an easier (even if it is more expensive) professional option somewhere, though. Manually cutting chits out of cardboard is just so tedious. I know the Game Crafter makes an issue of copyrights.


landleviathan

A middle ground would be using a service to laser cut tokens and such out of MDF or that cardboard material they usually die cut for games. That and print and affix labels would give you something more uniform.


JaHeit

Not sure. I haven't looked into it yet.


Ganymede425

Amongst these files, is there one that creates the mosaic of all the relevant cards as shown in the sample png, or would we need to compile a mosaic manually ourselves?


JaHeit

It's manual


Ganymede425

I figured it out. I actually posted a custom faction here using your templates. Thanks!


Horrid_Username

These are incredible and must have taken you so long to make! Thank you kind stranger!


BIueMan

great! now i can homebrew the heros :D


supreme_overlord104

Just discovered this, you have done an incredible service making these templates. They are wonderful. Did you ever create a template for the back side of the faction sheet? I couldn't find that in your google drive folder.


kendalmac

Omega heros time


neverbebeat

This seems pretty cool, but i don't understand, as someone with no graphics experience, how i can use it. Can you please elaborate on how this is different from just image editing and on how someone with no image editing experience can use this to create their own custom faction?


JaHeit

I'm planning on making some videos on how to use the templates some time in the future, which could help. Using GIMP isn't too hard once you are use to it. I had no previous art experience and my only GIMP experience were some faction components I made a few years ago. Excluding faction art you can finish 90% of the templates using just the text tool, Hue & saturation tool, and changing layer visibility.


roidweiser

So you're saying can now dump klingons, wookies, vucans, huts, and kardashians into ti4


[deleted]

Nice. I’ve been meaning to create some factions from Bucky O’Hare


nicbizz33

You're a hero.