Rookery Dark Fantasy Board Game Card Template
by ShuffleKit · 55 installs
A pen-and-ink card set for a dark fantasy board game, with Blood, Ember, Frost and Moss fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. The art runs edge to edge, fading to paper under a serif name and into solid ink at the foot, where the rules print in white. A bookmark ribbon hangs from the top edge with the card's Attack and its lodge mark, and the cost sits as a row of dice on a rule across the ink. The frame is built from editable shapes, so each lodge's spot ink is one fill to change. The ribbon hides itself on cards with no Attack, and a Lodge column picks each card's front. Comes with an eight-card sample deck of masked beasts and omens.
- Designs
- 5
- Sample cards
- 8
- 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
- Description
- Attack
- Lodge
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 Rookery Dark Fantasy Board Game Card Template
Five designs: Blood Card, Ember Card, Frost Card, Moss Card and Card Back.
Your cards live in a sheet, one row each, with a column for every field the designs read: Name, Artwork, Subtitle, Cost, Description, Attack and Lodge. Eight of those rows arrive filled in, so there is something on the design before you type a word.
Read the eight sample cards
| Name | Subtitle | Description | Attack | Lodge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrion Rook | Masked Beast · Carrion | SNATCH: When you claim this beast, take one unspent die from the hunter on your left. MURDER: If a pair of Twos is left over when a Hunt ends, each Rook you hold gains 1 Attack. | 6 | Blood |
| Thornwire Snare | Omen · Snare | Play this before anyone rolls. The next beast claimed is caught, and its hunter discards a One. BLEED: While it is caught, the beast has 2 less Attack and cannot be traded to another hunter. | Blood | |
| Cinder Fox | Masked Beast · Trickster | FEINT: Once per Hunt, turn one of your dice to the face one pip above or below it. KINDLE: When you claim this beast, light a Lantern from the omen row without paying for it. | 4 | Ember |
| Tallow Lantern | Omen · Light | While this Lantern is lit, you may reroll one die showing Three at the start of each Hunt. GUTTER: If you roll no Threes at all, the flame goes out. Turn this card face down. | Ember | |
| Hoarfrost Stag | Masked Beast · Monarch | RUT: Beasts with less Attack than this one cannot be claimed while it stays in the wood. HUSH: When you claim this beast, every other hunter sets aside one die until the next Hunt. | 7 | Frost |
| Rimewater | Omen · Water | Freeze one beast in the wood. No hunter can claim it or change its cost until the Hunt ends. THAW: When the Hunt ends, put this omen back on the bottom of the omen deck. | Frost | |
| Barrow Boar | Masked Beast · Brute | GORE: When you claim this beast, the hunter with the most Attack discards one of their beasts. WALLOW: This beast gains 2 Attack for every Moss omen you hold at the end of the Hunt. | 8 | Moss |
| Wolfsbane | Omen · Bane | Poison one beast in the wood. The next hunter to claim it loses a die for the rest of the round. WITHER: If no one has claimed the poisoned beast by the start of the next Hunt, discard it. | Moss |
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 Rookery Dark Fantasy Board Game Card Template
Everything you need to know before getting started.
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What happens when I add Rookery Dark Fantasy Board Game Card Template to a project?
The five designs, the seven fields and the eight 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 Rookery Dark Fantasy Board Game 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 Rookery Dark Fantasy Board Game 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 Rookery Dark Fantasy Board Game 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?
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