Tabletop Simulator Digimon Card Game

With the pre-release of the Digimon CCG behind united states, at that place have been many questions floating effectually the cyberspace every bit to how to play online, specially considering the lack of events due to the ongoing COVID19 pandemic.

Whilst we are waiting for both in-paper events and a well supported app from Bandai, my preferred method is to utilize Tabletop Simulator (Available on Steam and is regularly on sale), and using either the Digimon Card Game 2020 workshop content by Zaffy or it's derivative published by BoneShanks.

Both of these plugins are updated with new cards fairly regularly and take their ain in-built deck importers but sometimes you lot may observe that a new menu has been leaked or previewed online which might not yet be added to their growing database of translated cards. Today we are going to get through the process of creating a custom deck direct from digimoncard.dev so that you tin use information technology in whatever Tabletop Simulator workshop content.

Building your deck

The first step is to actually build your deck using digimoncard.dev. Make sure that y'all check the PROXY button to show fan and translated cards and then you can get ahead and build however you like In this example containing Anubismon and Xiaomon from BT4 and the blocker Devimon from ST6 which at the time weren't yet bachelor through the Steam Workshop content.

Once you take congenital everything, select Import/Export and TTS Customdeck. Download the image and keep it somewhere safety for now. You lot will also want to download an image to use for for your carte-backs which can be anything y'all like. TTS volition scale whatever you choose.

Create a Custom Deck in Tabletop Simulator

The adjacent pace is to burn down upwardly Tabletop Simulator (any gameroom will do but here I accept Zaffy'south modern loaded because information technology looks cool) and select;

Objects -> Components -> Custom -> Deck

and elevate the deck into your postal service window. The custom deck interface will open up;

Nether 'Confront' and 'Back' you will select the location of the file downloaded from digimoncard.dev and your desired cardback artwork respectively and when prompted select 'cloud' to upload it so that your opponents can see the cards also. If you select 'local' at this stride but you volition exist able to see the cards and they will appear as bare to everyone else.

Settings for a deck of 55 cards with front and back images uploaded to the cloud.

TTS uses a standard template for its deck generation so the width, height and number settings need to match what you lot downloaded from digimoncard.dev and also be sure to check 'dorsum is subconscious' and then that the cardback image is displayed properly. When you are done with all of this select 'IMPORT' and your deck will be generated based on the settings.

And here is the final outcome; your custom deck from digimoncard.dev with the images straight from the website. There is no hover-over tooltip information as per other decks made past the workshop plugins themselves but everything is still perfectly readable and cards tin can always exist zoomed in at on your screen with <TAB>.

It is worth noting that by default the deck object is very minor on the screen so yous tin apply the plus and minus buttons on your keyboard to scale it to the right size (+/-)

Salve the deck as an Object

Tabletop Simulator works on an object-based arrangement whereby you lot can save any object and then import them afterward into other instances of games. One time everything is finished you can correct-click on your deck and save information technology equally an object fix to be imported in your games with other players.

Information technology is worth noting that if you aren't the host of a room you don't have object placing permissions by default then you will desire to requite these to your opponent by right-clicking on their name and selecting 'promote' when yous are in a game with them. Likewise make sure that you lot are both aware of which pack releases you are playing with as to avert whatsoever nasty surprises during your games.