Publisher: Conflict Games, LLCThis 138 Card deck is filled with hundreds of inspiring ways to describe the nuances of magic. Each card contains action words and examples to spark the imagination. The deck is organized into 17 individual schools of magic and prints on large 4.25″x 2.75″(Tarot-sized) cards.
The cards contain flavor text designed for Writers, Storytellers, and GMs (system neutral).
Broken down into:
• Blast Spells
• Touch Spells
• Area Spells
• Magic Barriers
• Spell Failures
Every tabletop gamer has been around a table when something like this happens:
“I cast Fireball on this area.”
“Cool, that hits all these bad guys, and they fail their save.”
“Sweet, they take 8d6 of damage, so that’s 28 points of damage each.”
Do you see a problem with this? It’s rather boring, isn’t it? It lacks the flavor and the deep narration that makes role-playing games so fun.
Could you go by the magic descriptions that the books give you? Sure, but do you want your cool, one of a kind character to use the descriptions we’ve all heard a thousand times before? Moreover, that assumes that you are using the spells from the book at all, what do you do if you’ve made your own homebrewed spells?
What if there are multiple spellcasters in your group? Does your elf necromancer cast a certain spell the same way that a human druid does? Sure, magic could be described uniformly in your world where all spells look the same, regardless of the kind of caster using them, but doesn’t that sound terribly dull to you?
With these magic description cards, you could make a deck that makes your spell list wholly unique and fit perfectly with the character concepts you created. The best part of any story is the action scenes, and there is no reason why the big dang hero fighters should get all the fun. Regardless if you or your players are a warlock, wizard, cleric, or something else, everyone could use some help in deepening their roleplay.
A GM or storyteller who wants to hoard these cards could make their NPC casters so much deeper and more menacing and makes it easier to hide what the spellcaster is capable of by hiding the actual spells behind these rich narrative descriptions.
A Must-Have for Homebrewers, World Builders, and Game Designers!
Try these cards, we think you are going to love them!
Inculdes spell failures:
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