In late 2015, Ganesha will publish "Song of Blades- the Card Game". Not a collectible ruleset. Rules will be a free pdf, cards will be sold by Drivethrucards exclusively.

This is a first attempt at a card layout with a temp illustration. The cards will also work as standard SBH force cards (I need to add a point value for that).

Here is a goblin of the plains archer. Icons are Quality (laurels), Combat (the crossed swords). Die Value (the die), Stealth (the hood) and Shooter (the archer). The lower part of the card shows the same figure after taking an hit. A creature card is turned "red side up" when the figure is wounded. As you see, a wounded goblin can still shoot but loses his stealth ability. No dice are used in the game - the die value (top right corner) of a card is used in lieu of a roll (of course if you use a card as a die, you are not using it as a card, and yes you guessed, the best creatures and effects have lousy die scores and the greeblies like this goblin have good dice values).

Terrain, magic, leadership and a plethora of special traits are covered. The cards have NO TEXT, so that there is no need to do international versions (the free rules will be in English and Italian initially, and will be translated in other languages if there is interest or if volunteers do them).

This lets you play a SBH-sized battle in 10-15 minutes, and a campaign in an hour or two (there are campaign rules). One deck serves two players - the game is designed to be pretty inexpensive. You'll need a few glass counters for the campaign version and for spell effects, but that's it. Cards will be US-poker sized.

If the decks sell decently, the game will be expanded and there will be a poll to vote on which creatures or game effects you want.