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Card Forge Instructions
Card Forge is a creative tool that lets you design and export high-quality, custom cards for games, storytelling, and personal projects. With flexible layouts, image and text integration, and professional-grade export options, you can bring your ideas to life — from Table Top RPG spell cards to unique collectibles. Your designs are fully yours, and Card Forge helps you turn them into print-ready creations with ease.
In Card Forge, each card type is crafted for a different purpose — from detailed spell cards for Game Master and Players, to versatile general cards for any game, to specialized designs like NPC profiles or botanical records. Each type comes with its own unique layout, ready to bring your ideas to life. And if you have a vision that goes beyond the existing templates, you can commission a custom card type made just for you, available for a one-time cost via Patreon. Whether it’s a single bespoke design or an entirely new category of cards, your imagination can shape the forge itself.
General App Overview
This is the main view of the app, where all the features can be accessed.
Card Display & Sub-Menu
Each card type have its own sub-menu. Some have selectors like the General Spell Card, where you can select spell schools, while others have image importing button for adding your custom images to the cards (where applicable).
Card Example
In this example, I’m building a spell card by using the ”General Spell Card” card type. In the interactive zone on the front of the card, I can add text, choose from drop-down menus and toggle some of the button’s opacity.
Exporting Single Card
By pressing the ”Export Card” button, you will get prompted to a pop up dialogue, asking you to name your export files. After pressing ”ok”, the app will export two separate high quality .png files; one for the front of the card and one for the back.
Output PNGs of Single Card Export
Building Up a Queue ( Tier 1 & 2 )
When subscribed to tier 1 and tier 2 on my Patreon, you will have access to a very powerful feature: Exporting multiple high-quality cards (up to 5) on a printable letter-sized paper. This feature have been painstakingly optimized for providing near-perfect duplex printing. This means that you can print one page with up to 5 cards on it and have all of them with fronts and backs properly displayed. After that you only need to cut the cards, and you’ll have five tarot-sized cards with material on both sides.
In this example, I just created an NPC-type card, and I will be queuing it in the queue list next to the already made ”Lava Blob” card. Note that once you queue the card, it will disappear from the live view. You can however ”load” it back on for review purposes, without modifying it.
Full Stack of Queued Cards
Exporting Queued Cards
By pressing the ”Export All” button, you will get prompted to a pop up dialogue, asking you to name your export files. After pressing ”ok”, the app will export two separate high quality .png files; one for the front of the cards and one for the back. Note that the backside of the cards are inverted. This is for allowing duplex printing, which will result in every cards having the front and back at the right spot on the sheet.
For best results, do the duplex printing automatically. This ensure precise placement of both .png on each side. Note that each printer behave differently, and some trial and errors might be required to get satisfactory results.
If you duplex print manually, you just have to flip the page on the long edge (imagine having the pivot axis from the center of one of the short edge up to the center of the other short edge), and feed it back into the printer.
Output PNG of Back of Cards
Output PNG of Front of Cards
