About three months ago I posted a design for stat cards featuring 5E beasts, something I had been playing around with for druid players and DM’s alike and the feedback was really great. It was basically just started out as a way of getting more out of the tokens I was drawing for VTT, combining them with simplified versions of the MM statblocks using icons I made.
In the last three months, I spent a lot of my spare time going through the design and trying to streamline it even more. Combining icons to visualize attack options like multi-attack, types of damage an attack does and alternative types of speed. The layout was reshaped to fit simple poker size cards and the text about the same scale as standard MTG cards so that I could fit up to half of the page of text (in some cases) on a single card. I used MTG cards as a reference, not just for the lettering but also for the scale of the card. That way people can reuse the foils they have for those cards for these cards too.
I also spent that time drawing unique illustrations for the 88 beasts in the back of the manual, including the dinosaurs in the front of the manual. What came out was this full deck and I’m pretty proud of it. If it’s a success I might try my hands on doing more simplified stat cards, a task that might seem pretty straight forward: just reuse the design I have for these, but in reality is actually much more difficult once you start taking into account spells and more complex actions than what beasts fall back on.
If you like these cards you can get them on DriveThruRPG or try your luck on my Instagram where I’m doing a free giveaway of three decks for my followers.
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