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GameMastery Item Cards: Hero's Hoard Booster
Paizo Publishing, LLC
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The first expansion in Paizo's GameMastery™ Item Cards line, Hero's Hoard contains 110 playing-card–sized cards to help GMs track important treasures. Each card features a beautiful full-color illustration of an item (weapon, armor, wondrous item, etc.) on one side, with a text description and room for notes on the opposite side. A GM can hand these out when their PCs get treasure and watch as players learn to love managing their booty. A code on each card helps GMs track which card corresponds to which treasure.
Useable by experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any GameMaster’s arsenal.
Hero's Hoard booster packs contain:
- 1 armor (cards 01–15)
- 2 weapons (16–39)
- 2 potions (40–57)
- 1 scroll (63–72)
- 1 wand (79–88)
- 2 wondrous items (89–110)
- 1 ring (58–62) or 1 rod or staff (73–78)
- 1 foil card, which may be any card from the set.
Display boxes contain 12 booster packs.
Sample cards. Click to enlarge.
Illustrations by Vincent Dutrait.
Card List for Hero's Hoard:
01 Banded Mail
02 Breastplate
03 Chainmail
04 Half-plate
05 Hide Armor
06 Leather Suit
07 Platemail
08 Scalemail
09 Splint Mail
10 Studded Leather
11 Buckler
12 Steel Shield
13 Steel Shield
14 Tower Shield
15 Wooden Shield
16 Axe
17 Battle Axe
18 Arrows
19 Bolts
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20 Crossbow
21 Dagger
22 Dagger
23 Flail
24 Halberd
25 Lance
26 Longbow
27 Longbow
28 Longsword
29 Longsword
30 Longsword
31 Mace
32 Shortbow
33 Shortbow
34 Shortsword
35 Shortsword
36 Sling
37 Spear
38 Spiked Chain
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39 Warhammer
40 Potion
41 Potion
42 Potion
43 Potion
44 Potion
45 Potion
46 Potion
47 Potion
48 Potion
49 Potion
50 Potion
51 Potion
52 Potion
53 Potion
54 Potion
55 Potion
56 Potion
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57 Potion
58 Ring
59 Ring
60 Ring
61 Ring
62 Ring
63 Scroll
64 Scroll
65 Scroll
66 Scroll
67 Scroll
68 Scroll
69 Scroll
70 Scroll
71 Scroll
72 Scroll
73 Rod
74 Rod
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75 Staff
76 Staff
77 Staff
78 Staff
79 Wand
80 Wand
81 Wand
82 Wand
83 Wand
84 Wand
85 Wand
86 Wand
87 Wand
88 Wand
89 Amulet
90 Amulet
91 Bag
92 Belt
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93 Book
94 Boots
95 Boots
96 Bottle
97 Bracers
98 Bracers
99 Circlet
100 Cloak
101 Cloak
102 Crown
103 Crystal Ball
104 Gauntlets
105 Gemstone
106 Gloves
107 Headband
108 Necklace
109 Periapt
110 Robe
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Product Reviews
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I love the cards, but am not too keen on the random aspect. Despite missing 12 out of the set, I still have more than enough cards to represent most of the armor, weapons, and items the PCs will find/use. I may pick up a couple more boosters in hopes of acquiring a few of the missing cards. Sets 3 and 4 can't come out soon enough.
This is a good product. I like these cards and use them in my game. However, the repeats of cards previously published in the Pack 1, if not numerous (I had only a couple of them with four boosters), is a bit disappointing. This should have been pointed out in the announcements before the product's actual release.
I agree that the distribution of the cards could use *a bit* of work (more scrolls, potions, etc), but I find the bulk of the negative comments rather sad. I Used the IP1 cards as the most abundant MIs, so I love the fact that they included them all in the boosters.
The fact of the matter is, that this is a great supplement for DM who are willing/able to invest a few extra $$ into their games and a whole display box of boosters isn't any more expensive than a higher-priced campaign setting book, for instance. I've also encouraged my players to pick me up now and again, since it's only increasing their experience ;)
I can't wait for more expansions!!
Cards are beautiful and will be a lot of fun to play with BUT I'm still not wild about the random assortments and I was surprised that so many of the cards in the Hero's Hoard pack were repeats of cards in the starter set. Still, I'm happy with the set.
i just got my much anticipated display box of hero's hoard, and my reaction is so-so.
The Good:
Great art, very useful, my players love it when i hand them one of these cards.
The Bad:
first, i was unaware that there were repeats from the first boxed set, so that was a little disappointing.
second, i'm not so sure i like the randomness. perhaps there should be non-random sets with items you'd only need one of (eg. magic sword) and random packs of things you'd want more than on of (eg. scrolls and potions). I wouldn't mind lots of a similar potion, but i don't need 4 sets of the same plate mail.
overall, a decent product
I ordered a display box from Paizo.com and am generally impressed.
You are supposed to hand the cards out to players when they discover something other than "30 copper pieces in a stained leather sack." The art on each card is fantastic and it makes finding a magic item a real treat for my group. I used to print items out on notecards to hand out but these blow my DIY method out of the water.
I've only used them over a couple of sessions but I've found that I can buy cheap card protectors at the FLGS and then use laserjet labels to put whatever I want on the back of the card. When the PC burns the card or retires their character I can simply replace the cheapie sleeve and reuse the card.
OK, so I already had Item Pack 1, which is great. I went with these, knowing that the distrubution would be random. Personally, I don't think it is that bad. I have no problem having multiple of the common things, like potions, scrolls, wands and daggers. Actually, I would like more potions! Also, the added foil cards are way cool. It gives me a chance to give super special items as foils, like artifacts. In anycase, the artwork, once again, is awsome! If you are worried about getting a partictular card, just buy some packs and get on the trading thread over on the GameMastery message board.
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Reviewer:
Vic Wertz
(Technical Director)
Sun, Aug 20, 2006, 05:56 PM
To those of you reading reviews to determine if this Hero's Hoard is right for you, I'd like to point out a few things.
A: There are several messageboard threads that you may find informative, including:
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/gameMastery/itemPackUpdates
http://paizo.com/dungeon/messageboards/generalDiscussion/archives/nEWPAIZOP RODUCTItemCards
and
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/gameMastery/boosterPackContent
If you have questions, that last thread would be a good place to post to get them answered.
B: The word "random" doesn't properly convey the structure of the packs.
In addition to the foil, which can be any card, each pack should contain:
1 armor (cards 1–15)
2 weapons (16–39)
2 potions (40–57)
1 scroll (63–72)
1 wand (79–88)
and 2 wondrous items (89–110).
Half of the packs also contain 1 ring (58–62); the other half contain 1 rod or staff (73–78).
C: A few of the "reviews" below are from people who apparently don't have actual firsthand experience with the product. (Note phrases like "I was... ready to buy this until...," "As far as I know," and "I... blew this off as a no sale.") You might want to consider that when you weigh their opinions.
Good:
1. Great artwork.
2. Fantastic cards. Well done, though pencil doesn't completely erase off of the white area on the back.
3. The starter with 54 non-random was really nice. Exactly what a DM would want.
Bad
1. The random boosters. Granted, I bought a box of booster and got decent distribution. Can't complain there, though I didn't get them all.
2. Pricey to collect the whole set, unfortunately.
Ugly
1. Don't have anything for ugly, just wanted to make a Speghetti Western reference.
Suggestion: Don't make them random. I like the idea of "kicker" sets like the previous guy said. Also, it would be nice if there was a place where you could go to trade or buy individual cards to complete sets.
randomness needs to be resolved...
Reviewer:
Yakostovian
Sun, Aug 20, 2006, 12:55 AM
they call it "random" yet most packs are nearly duplicate of another.
if each pack is 11 cards, and there are 110 cards in the set, then in theory, with 10 packs, you should have the majority of the set.
they should simply release a large set with the most common tools of the trade.
definatly going to use my own index card system.
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Just want to make sure I have this correct . . . for the $41 dollars I get the entire 110 card set, right?
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A Villainous Sidekick wrote:
Just want to make sure I have this correct . . . for the $41 dollars I get the entire 110 card set, right?
Sorry. You get 10 packs of 11 random cards - 1 armor, 2 weapons, 2 potions, 1 scroll, 1 wand, 1 ring or rod/staff, 2 wonderous items, and 1 foil that can be any of the above. You WILL NOT get a complete set of cards as there will be repeats of several. And actually, the "random" of Hero's Hoard was pretty uneven so theres a bunch of stuff you won't get and others you'll get triples of. All cool cards that you can find a way to use when role-playing, but not the best way to get a complete set.
If you're starting from scratch, get a boost to get a bunch of cards, then buy/trade to get the ones you're missing. There a guy named Derek who posts on these board who sells and trades a lot (he helped me complete both my HH and RW sets - thanks Derek!). Here's his website:
http://itemcards.blogspot.com
There are also a couple of trade threads here at Paizo. They're a little slow these days but I had good luck there in the past. Finally, there is at least one web-store selling individual cards for around a buck. Here is their website:
http://store.usacomicbooks.com/pazio.html
Last but not least, there are 5 or 6 cards that are almost impossible to find - studded leather, tower shield, spiked chain, warhammer, and one of the staves, IIRC. Good luck on those.
Hope this helps,
Mosaic
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Wow, you'd think studded leather would have been one of the most commonly printed cards...
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Hey, what are you guys using the foil cards for?
I already have a few and when I give these out my players are going "Ahhh!" and are a little disappointed when I tell them that these are in no way special or different from the other cards.
And I agree with my players that these should be more special than the items on the normal cards.
I thought about representing artifacts with these foil cards, but I have about twenty of these and I'll wrack my campaign when I'm beginning to issue artifacts regulary...:)
So, anybody came up with a nice idea?
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Not all magic items glow to normal sight. Maybe the foil cards are the glowy ones.
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