These cards are great! Unfortunately to be a decent GM aid, you need to be able to buy what you need... an armor set, a melee weapon set, a potion set, etc. I'd gladly buy DOZENS of these cards **IF** I could get the ones I wanted. Unfortunately, I didn't read the packages prior to buying a WHOLE box of cards... And imagine my chagrin to find that I didn't have a single chain shirt, or studded leather armor, or a rapier... ad infinitum. I don't want a "collectible card game without the game" - I want a GM aid. Let me buy which items I want... Look at the DMG - it'll certainly give you an idea of which items to clump together. Heck, let me buy a batch of cards clumped in accordance with the various random treasure tables... And put one item of each table in the set (and yes, people will buy a big batch if you can get what you want).

I think these cards are a teriffic idea. I use them to literally keep track of items in my campaign. Instead of relying on a ream of notes and memory, these cards serve perfectly. I just hand them to the respective player. The cards changed the way we inventory items in our campaign.

My only issue is the randomization of the cards. I prefer a system where we can buy sinlge cards as we need them. Or, perhaps a set of scrolls at a time or armor. If I could buy a "booster pack" of armor, that would be even better, instead of hoping I get enough aromr in a booster pack as they are packaged now.

Perhaps eBay sellers will offer the singles and specific "sets" I desire.

Besides that, I love the cards. They are beautiful and designed for fantasy gaming. Great idea! Should've been done thirty years ago.

I love the concept. I rummage around for pictures to use in my game all the time and this is a great idea.

I was all set to buy it. It is a 5 star product BUT.

It’s terrible that I can’t get all of the cards without buying booster packs and collecting double and triples that are guaranteed to come my way. Maybe I can go to Origins and buy the cards I’ll be missing at a premium.

If you want a high-quality, high-impact, affordable addition to your game, these cards are it! This Item Pack 1, in particular, is exceptionally affordable; use the cards from a couple of packs from this 54-card set for your most abundant items and supplement with the expansion packs for your less frequent items. Besides, an entire display box (12 boosters) of the expansion sets only costs about $45 (how much are the higher-end D&D hardcovers these days?) and any reasonable set of players would be happy to chip in a pack here and there for their own game (mine do!).

I have been a GM for over 25 years. One of the tools I've used over the course of this time have been index cards for items with a splash of art on the front. When I saw this product, my mouth literally watered. The artwork is absolutely gorgeous. The price is reasonable. Kicker packs expanding the available items. Then I read the description closely and saw that the packs are "booster" packs. Your marketing peeps have turned a WONDERFUL product, a great TOOL into a collectable card GAME- without the game. I had this product in my shopping cart - and promptly removed it. PLEASE reconsider trying to cash in on the CC craze. I know it looks good from a marketing standpoint, but you'll lose more customers than you keep.

I think the Item cards are wonderful. They're perfect aids in helping with the visualization of gameplay. I have drawn items in the past for our games just so that there is some sort of representation and now we have these beautifully illustrated cards with durable backs to write notes upon, erase and reuse. I'm very excited to see the new sets coming out.

I did notice within the first sets "Hero's Hoarde" that there were some items that had a theme running through them. I think that's a FANTASTIC idea. It would be even more special if there were whole sets of armor, weapons, rings, amulets, cloaks that carried the theme. Sort of like "these things were made by this dwarven weaponsmith" or "these potions/wands/scrolls were created by this elven sorceror". Something that could be used for a plot or to build a game around.

I applaud Sean Glenn for this product and I hope the packs continue.

I've been waiting for nearly 20 years for someone to come up with this idea, and I must say that Gamemastery has done a good job. The artwork is very nice, and each card has a unique drawing and description, even for similar items.

As much as I love this product, I would really like to see a set of cards containing more mundane items that we typically see in an adventurer's inventory. This way we could actually carry cards representing everything that our character owns, such as backpack, torches, tinderbox, boots, cape, flasks of oil, thieves tools, etc.

Good job, Paizo, and looking forward to more boosters!

Now, as a GM and as a person I am a highly visual person, and aids like this help me. Also because for my DnD campaigns, I am not magic toy heavy (I have other ways of making fighters effective) these are more than enough.

However a few things stop me from giving this a 5/5. The lack of weapons. I need Bastard Swords and Great Axes, as those are rather common gear for any campaign I've played or ran in in the past 20 or so years of gaming.

These cards are beautiful! And I love the concept.

However, each pack does not come with enough cards for even a single module! As the DM, I am running my group through the FR Module: Sons of Gruumsh and had bought 5 Item Packs and, at $50+ for all 5, I STILL do not have enough treasure cards to cover all the treasures to be found in one module....especially short on potions!

And that's just ONE module!

The ITEM PACK cards also do not include some common items, like Great Axes, handaxes, halberds, chain shirts, bastard swords, scimitars etc.

Instead, they put in things like HEADBAND?!?

Excellent game aide. I bought two packs, one for playing and one for my collection. Just a word of advise to you newbies: buy some protective sleeves and write on them with a Sharpe, instead of writing on them with pencil and having to erase periodically. Just waiting for the booster packs and I will buy more. Keep up the great work and speed up the process of getting the booster packs.