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I wanted to do another set with another frame that was more sci fi. It's the frame I use for my gundam proxy deck, based on a design made by Evelyn. I like her EVA frame a lot, but I wanted to make something simpler. After doing Inazuma and Liyue from Genshin, I went to make a Honkai Star Rail set, with no specific theme.

Asta is Vadrik, Astral Archmage. Blue & red seemed to be a fitting color combination to me, and I wanted something to go with time, prediction and/or the stars. The day/night cycle mechanic was a bit underwhelming for many people, but I do enjoy it quite a lot, and Vadrik is a fun card that. In addition to having it this theme fitting Asta's role as an astronomer of the Ingelligentsia Guild, the reduction on instant and sorceries represents the trope she feels in the typical RPG party : with her long staff and powerfull buffs, she is of course a mage. The art comes directly from a Light Cone of the game, sadly I could not track down the original artist.

Aventurine is the first one I did. In fact, I started this set in good part because I wanted to make him based on Mr. House, President and CEO. Mechanically, I love this card, but aesthethically it's really not my jam. It also happens to be a perfect fit for Aventurine : - Red represents his gambling behavior, and black his work for the IPC, but the middle and more important color is white, representing all his lore around Preservation. - 0/4 because he's a shielder! - Rolling dice and making treasures because he's a gambler for the IPC. - Penacony is full of robots. Now, they're not really tied to him directly, but with Pirohi's gorgeous artwork, it works wonderfully! The only issue is the artifact type.

There were a lot of possible choices for Kafka. Any creature that steals or benefits from stealing probably would have worked, althought I wanted one that was more than just black. Gonti, Canny Acquisitor sprung to mind as a recent example that worked fine, including but not exclusively because it's also a good body, and Kafka is a formidable fighter. I didn't know this artist beforehand and can only hope the credit was correct here because I can't verify it myself.

For Boothill, it was either Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph or someone working with bounties (like Chevill or Mathas). The more I thought about it, the more red-blue seemed like the correct color identity for the cyber cowboy. Shay Cormac's abilities was very good to reflect Boothill's break mechanics, though! The art is made by Ozlow and I absolutely love it.

Here's the batch! Was a fun, low effort one, using a frame I had made for another project and just playing with colors and cool fanarts.

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Today I offer you : Shin & Noi from Dorohedoro, illustrated by Kaitennsiki. Tomorow? Who knows.

They're Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint, and I have to admit Caiman & Nikaido would have worked slightly better because of the lizard type. But I like Shin & Noi more. Training and killing blockers work great for them individually, and focus on clue and food work for them as a duo. Pretty happy with the results.

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Some more Genshin Impact proxies, with minor alterations to the previous frame to fit this serie's theme : Liyue! I still really dig many characters from that region.

Starting with the power couple, Beidou & Ningguang for the card Cathartic Reunion. It's a lovely card, showing positive and non-destructive emotions in red, and also being a playable and good game item. It's also... A bit of an easy one. But sometime the low-hanging fruit is sweet too. Onlyou718 made a lot of gorgeous pieces, but choosing wasn't hard, this one is just too gorgeous.

Ningguang was one the first characters I actually liked in Genshin. She was one of my first 4 stars, I couldn't wait to meet her, and she ended up being really cool in the story. Here she is Pearl Ear, Imperial Advisor. It represents both her political acumen and her ability to build up ressources. As gold and opportunities pile up, so do your auras! This gorgeous portrait of Ningguang is made by Maowei Jiuguan.

Zhongli has been my favorite character until Fontaine and when I saw this art by Kiwo I knew I wanted a card that representend his divinity. There is no shortage of white gods : two Oketras, three Heliods, Ojer Taq, Reidane. None of them were super fitting to his abilities and philosophy. Iroas and Ephara were sound choices. Iroas protecting his people and Ephara representing his rule of Liyue harbor through law and contracts. But both used two colors that I didn't see really fitting him, and I couldn't connect Ephara's abilities to Zhongli's. Plus, and that was a dealbreaker for all of the 9 gods : they have a lot of abilities, which would hide the art. I think Zhongli has a sort of simple sophistication, so I wanted short, clear abilities, keyworded if possible. I turned to other godly creatures that don't have litteraly the type "god" on them. Elesh Norn was considered, until I remembered about Avacyn, Angel of Hope. I don't think there could have been a better fit.

Yanfei was fairly straightforward. I knew I wanted to use the new detective type (even if she's more a lawyer than a detective) and I wanted her to be red. There are only 6 red legendary detectives. Yasmin Khan and Jenny Flint were out because they're partners, and Kaust was ousted because red is secondary to his identity. There were good explanations for Agrus Kos, Melek and Nelly Borca, but I did end up with that last one because red-white felt more like Liyue (fitting the rest of the set). I also thought there was something funny with Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser having a lot of text. It reminded me of Yanfei being able to give all the details of a long text of law on a whim. As for the art, I was charmed by the intimacy of Mushi C Jun's piece. It's fairly hard to find Yanfei art, and Jun did a lot of really cool genshin fanart.

Quite happy with this batch. Avacyn & Cathartic Reunion kinda prove that simplicity is often the key, especially for proxying.

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Have been sick these past few days, but being unable to work is depressing so I tried to kill time by making scenes in Foundry for Fabula Ultima. I think the results are turning good so here's a breakdown (as well as links for the ressources and modules used) for people who would be interested. The basis is generaly 2 to 4 tiles to represent the background, as well as a tile used as a roof tile for the character portraits.

The sort of character portraits menu is made of different interface items from Fire Emblem Three Houses. The portraits themselves are easily swappable placeholders, these ones are from Final Fantasy War of the Visions. Each portrait has an invisible tile which opens a corresponding character sheet using Monk's active tile trigger.

The backgrounds come from Fire Emblem Heroes. They all come already separated in several layers, and surprisingly most of them loop perfectly when it comes to overlays (such as dust or smoke) and underlays (ie. clouds, skies). They're an incredible ressource for Fabula Ultima combat screens! To have the skies and overlay move, I used Ripper's Tile Scroll module. It's super easy to use. If you have several overlays (like in the factory scene), placing the moving one between the immobile ones adds a sense of depth to the scene with very little effort.

For the rain and the snow, it's simply using ghost's FXMaster module. The FEH backgrounds also have a few panels of snow, cherry blossom petals, flowers, motes of light, etc... I don't think they'll look as good, but some of them can have their use. In a volcanic environment, having motes of fiery lights constantly raising from the bottom of the screen to the top using tile scroll could work to denote heat.

As for the tokens, I simply used the ones made for the quickstart by Tiny-Overlord. Flying Minotaur's portrait maker is also an incredible ressource for this kind of setup. As the name states, it can even be used to make portraits and not just token, so you could make your NPCs with it too. The mech on the left comes from Final Fantasy VI.

Have fun saving the world, adventurers!

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Wanted to try my hands at making some proxies with the japanese Mystical Archive frame. I designed a slightly simplified version of it and tried a few colors. Took the opportunity to portray some Genshin characters! To keep a theme, they're all Inazuma characters.

First one was Yoimiya. There aren't a lot of interesting archer characters, especialy in pure red, so I went with Ashling, Flame Dancer. Casting many spell to gain looting effects, damages and mana felt like it worked with her many arrows and her habits of giving presents and preparing explosive fireworks! The wonderful art is made by Issign, and you can find their work here : 微糖去冰 (@issign) / X

Kirara is Yeva, Nature's Herald. My logic was fairly straightforward for this, with green being dendro and the focus on flash representing her ability to travel the world at a fast pace. Azusa was also an option, more lands per turn to represent journeying around. I'm really glad I found Ach Ib's art for it, it's quite a perfect fit. The faded out background fits really nice on a card, the small text box works well with having two characters in focus, and Chiori + Kirara is a lovely duo! You can find their work here : Ach ib (@Dd99d9D95890) / X

The third try is Raiden Shogun. It was difficult to find something that represented her confinement, or her rule over the shogunate and the tempests... I thought about Naomi, Konda, or even Fumiko for the constant state of war in Inazuma. Keranos was on the table because god of storms is sort of a given. But I ended up going with Raiyuu, Storm's Edge. This way, the card has relevant speed, dueling and focus on samurai as a type, as well as a wink back to the storm theme.

And last one is Kamisato Ayaka. She is Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice. I don't really have a train of thought on why, just a general feeling that it fits. Maybe it's because of the way she is overprotected by everyone (so auras), maybe it's because of the small body with a great power. Art is by Hajikkoneko, and I'm glad I could find a gorgeous piece of Ayaka in warm color and an inazuma outfit (rather than her fontainian one). You can find their work here : Posts de médias de ハジッコネコ (@hajikkoneko) / X

Overall I'm really happy with the result!