Broadsheet Event and Item Card Template
by ShuffleKit
A flat two-colour board game card set: event, item, encounter and reference fronts with a shared back, poker sized and print-ready. Every frame is editable shapes and type rather than a flattened image, so the palette is yours to change. Comes with a six-card sample deck.
- Designs
- 5
- Sample cards
- 6
- Card size
- Poker — 2.5 × 3.5 in
- 63.5 × 88.9 mm · 750 × 1050 px at 300 DPI
- Card fields
- Name
- Artwork
- Subtitle
- Cost
- Traits
- Description
- Flavor Text
- Attack
- Defense
Adding a template copies its designs, fields, and sample cards into your own project. Your copy is yours, and later changes by the author never touch it.
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What’s in Broadsheet Event and Item Card Template
Five designs: Event Card, Item Card, Encounter Card, Reference Card and Broadsheet Back.
Your cards live in a sheet, one row each, with a column for every field the designs read: Name, Artwork, Subtitle, Cost, Traits, Description, Flavor Text, Attack and Defense. Six of those rows arrive filled in, so there is something on the design before you type a word.
Read the six sample cards
| Name | Subtitle | Description | Flavor Text | Attack | Defense |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Call the Muster | Event — Response | Play when a rival claims a district. Move up to two of your workers there from anywhere on the board, then take the first-player marker. | Bell first. Questions after. | ||
| Night Shift | Event — Upkeep | Pay one coin. A quarry you own produces a second time this round, then jams until someone spends an action repairing it. | The ledger never sleeps, so neither does the crew. | ||
| Iron Lantern | Equipment — Light | While you carry this, enter a tunnel without rolling. Pass it to a neighbour at any time; discard it when you leave the map. | Cheaper than a torch, and it never argues. | 1 | |
| Surveyor's Plan | Equipment — Document | Look at the encounter beside any district, then put it back face down. You may swap it with the encounter beside a district you occupy. | Drawn in a week, argued over for a decade. | 0 | |
| The Toll Keeper | Encounter — Guard | Blocks the bridge. Pay two coins to pass, or beat the keeper in a contest of strength and take the toll yourself for the rest of the round. | 4 | 3 | |
| Setup | Reference — Two to four players | 1. Lay the four district tiles in a row, market side up. 2. Deal three item cards to each player and one encounter face down beside each district. 3. Put four coins on the bank tile for every player in the game. 4. The player who last read a newspaper takes the first-player marker. | With two players, leave out the fourth district and deal one extra item card each. |
Printing at poker size
Poker: 2.5 × 3.5 in, 63.5 × 88.9 mm, 750 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI.
On the Hobby plan, export a print-ready PDF with bleed and cut lines. PNG and SVG come out at the same size, which is what Tabletop Simulator wants. On Indie, send it to a print-on-demand partner through Print & Ship.
A printer asks for an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge on top of those numbers, so this card goes out as 825 × 1125. The export adds it. Let the artwork run into the bleed and keep the text inside the cut line, and nothing arrives trimmed.
Questions about Broadsheet Event and Item Card Template
Everything you need to know before getting started.
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What happens when I add Broadsheet Event and Item Card Template to a project?
The five designs, the nine fields and the six sample cards are copied into a project of yours, with the fields already pointed at the design. Nothing stays linked to this page afterwards, so the author's later edits never reach your copy.
What size does Broadsheet Event and Item Card Template print at?
Poker size: 2.5 × 3.5 in, 63.5 × 88.9 mm, 750 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI. Those are the numbers to hand a print shop, and the ones to check a sleeve against.
Is Broadsheet Event and Item Card Template free?
Yes. Adding it, editing it, filling it with your own cards and playtesting it online are all free. Exporting print files starts on the Hobby plan, and Print & Ship through The Game Crafter is on Indie. No template sits behind a paid plan.
Can I change the designs?
Yes. They land in your project as ordinary layouts, so you can drag an element somewhere else, put your own art behind the frame, restyle the type or rename a field. Edit a design once and every card on it follows.
Can I use my own cards instead of the samples?
Yes — the samples are rows in a sheet, and they are there to be overwritten. Type over them, add rows of your own, or bring a CSV and match its headers to the fields.
Can I sell a game made with Broadsheet Event and Item Card Template?
Yes. This one is ours, and you keep commercial rights to what you build from it, crowdfunding and retail included.
Ready to build your card game?
This template is free, and so is the editor it opens in.