Card Text

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Creating custom cards is always a challenge. One of the more challenging aspects is the “wording” on a custom card. The space provided on a card is limited, and therefore it becomes difficult to choose the right wording to keep the text at a minimum and still get your point across. What follows is a listing of Editing Conventions that the Hasbro cards contain. In addition, several editing mistakes and inconsistencies in the cards themselves have been found, and are listed after the conventions.

Textual Conventions

General

-Playing this card does not count as an action.

Cards that don’t count as an action always have this exact text.

-Recovers…X damage.

“Recover” is used to describe healing. An example on a card, is “Chewbacca recovers up to 4 damage”.

-Up to

This phrase is used to describe movement and healing. It’s use is for flexibility, which allows the user to choose a range of movement or healing within a certain limit or condition, such as “up to 5 spaces” or “up to 4 damage”.

-Any empty space

Used to describe any unoccupied space for a target’s movement destination.

-May

The use of “may” usually indicates when an effect is optional. Effects such as “you may move”, or “you may draw” etc, are usually optional effects.

-Player controlling the “attacking/defending” character

For effects that target a character and then the player associated with that character, this text is used.

Power Combat Secondary Effects

-After Attacking

This term is used before any movement of any kind.

-Takes damage from this card

This phrase is used whenever an effect requires conditional damage from the attack. None of the cards contain “from this attack” or “from {insert character name}".

Special Card Effects

-{Insert card name} does X damage

Cards that represent some sort of special “tool” or “weapon” usually insert the card name, into the effect instructions, such as “Thermal Detonator does 4 damage” and “Flamethrower does 2 damage” etc.

Editing Mistakes and Inconsistencies

General

-Attacker vs Attacking Character

These two phrases are used interchangeably with no apparent distinction

-Choose an opponent vs Choose any opponent

These two phrases are used interchangeably with no apparent distinction

-Royal Guard are ranged characters

While this isn't a "textual" error, it is an editing mistake non-the-less.  The weapon that the Royal Guard typically use (and are shown using in the cards and character sheet) are force pikes, which are melee weapons, not ranged weapons.  However, the Royal Guard are treated as ranged characters in the game.

Specific Cards

-Wrist Cable

The card text says “Cable Shot”, whereas the card name is “Wrist Cable.” It also says, “the player controlling the attacked character” implying that this card is an attack card, when in reality it is a special card and not an attack card.

-Royal Command

The Emperor’s minor characters are labeled as “Royal Guard” on their character sheet, but are referred to as “Crimson Guard” on Royal Command. They are known by both names in the Star Wars universe however, which might explain the inconsistency in name usage.

-Never tell me the odds

Every Power Combat and Special Card capitalizes every letter in the card name. In this card name, however, only the ‘N’ in “Never” is capitalized, while all the other letters are lower case. This is likely because "NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS" in all caps would not have fit in the space allotted, although "Yours Skills Are Not Complete" and "Latent Force Abilities" are equally long card names and they still follow the all caps convention.

-Missle Launch

“Missle” is misspelled. It should be “m-i-s-s-i-l-e”. Also, the map/board that the card references, “Kaminoan Platform”, is labeled as just “Kamino Platform” on the board itself.