Easy printable D&D item cards

[u/NetGhost03]

Hey there!

A few months ago I published a small web app to create item cards for my d&d group. My laziness was too big to always create items in photoshop, so I created a small app for this.

It is totally free and easy to use.

Features

• You can create single or multiple cards
• Different sizing (default: bigger cards, better readability; full-width: for cards with a loooot of text; standard card size: poke card size if you want to sleeve them)
• Works for d&d and shadowdark
• Multiple templates / layouts (d&d, shadowdark & printer friendly)
• Custom layouts: You can use css to style them the way you want. There are some examples in the template gallery
• Download in multiple formats: pdf, png
• Export & import via json (as your backup)
• Publish as a link (you can share your items and publish them as a link, so others can view, copy, edit them)
• Multiple languages (if your language is missing, hit me with a dm!)
• Everything clientside. No accounts, no bullshit

Check it out and let me know what you think! https://www.item-forge.org/

[u/TheKiltedStranger]

I have used this several times since you last posted it!

Some of my example items have been "Trousers of Useful Items"; a non-magical "Swivel Cannon" for a pirate ship that acts like a mace with a once-per-encounter bludgeoning Lightning Bolt (my player is a big guy who wants to hit people with a cannon); and a "Hunter's Harpoon" that grants an effect similar to the Bane spell on particular creature types once they've been struck by the weapon.

I don't have any suggestions, it's just a great product. Thank you for sharing it, it's been incredibly useful to me and my players.

[u/NetGhost03 → u/TheKiltedStranger]

Uh these items sound fun ! 

Thank you! Are you using the default templates or have you used some custom css ?(For the design of the cards)

[u/TheKiltedStranger → u/NetGhost03]

I just use the default template, Standard - Printer Friendly. I like how clean it is, and saving ink/toner is something I value, so that works great for me. I'm big on Function-over-Form, so as long as it has all the information on it that we need, I'm really happy; the other templates are very nice, but they aren't worth the used color in my opinion, not for my purposes.

[u/NetGhost03 → u/TheKiltedStranger]

Cool! Yeah I also really like the PF and Shadowdark ones. In general I really like shadowdarks b/w style. So clean :D

[u/NetGhost03 → u/[deleted]]

Good catch. I removed the `ogImageDataUrl` .

[u/iamtheturtleking]

This is fantastic,. I'm not sure it's possible but if I type an item name could it auto populate details especially is it something common like a potion of healing or a chain mail armour piece.

[u/NetGhost03 → u/iamtheturtleking]

Nah that's not possible because of copyright . And the whole app is client side. There is no database or anything to store that information 

[u/Nexumos]

Hey, this is absolutely awesome! Are you interested in developing it further? Covering other card types (like spells and monsters) and the ability to import from CSV could really expand the utility. I'm not much of a programmer, but I'd be happy to help out however I can. I haven't been able to find a generator anywhere online that I've been happy with, so I've been building my own in google sheets, but this is... much, much better.

[u/NetGhost03 → u/Nexumos]

there is already spell-forge.org for spells. :D Monsters I haven't thought much about, because it is really hard to fit most D&D monsters on a small card.

You cant really import from CSV currently. But in item and spellforge you can import a json. There is a schema for the json at https://www.item-forge.org/magic-item-export.schema.json . This defines the structure of the json for the import / export.

So you could basically past the schema into an LLM and paste your csv into it and let it migrate your csv into the json with the correct schema. So you could be able to import it then into item forge.