This post is basically a bookmark dump so I can locate this information later on. Maybe it will be helpful to you too!
- Card Design Websites
- CardConjurer.App. Easily the most comprehensive and feature rich card design option. Lots of formats, borders, etc, for Magic the Gathering related cards. You can download and save your cards in JSON formats.
- MtG.Design. Kinda difficult to navigate, reasonably easy to use, slightly strange saving system. Limited frames. Download cards as images.
- MtGCardSmith.com. Somewhat confusing interface, lots of options, confusing saving features. You have to have artwork before rendering a design.
- AI Art Generators
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I paid for ChatGPT for a few months, then stopped when I started using some local LLM’s and other free resources for code related projects. You can still generated a limited number of images per day. The paid version which gave a lot of image generations per day was probably the best I’ve used.
- Google’s Gemini. This works pretty well and while I haven’t really I haven’t bumped into the daily limits yet, I haven’t needed to. Decent.
- Playground.com. I used to use this site a lot – until they made a hard pivot to what appears to be a way to integrate their generated images into products that you’d expect to see on Etsy/Amazon. You have to really dig around to get it to give you something useable these days – but it’s free.
I have a semi-regular D&D game with friends. In order to help track initiative / attack order, I had the idea of creating cards for every player. The idea being that we all roll for initiative then hand the DM our stack of cards in the order we’re going – with the DM having a stack of opponent cards he can put in there too. If the cards I create just happen to be TCG / MtG sized and he can find placeholder cards for goblins, trolls, etc, so much the better.
Print On Demand Custom Cards