| Schnibbles Rumblebelly |
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I just received these and I have to say I'm disappointed. The quality of the materials and printing is the excellent. The box is great as well but there are two flaws that really affected ct the practical use of these cards.
1. The font is both spidery and small. Its as if the font size was selected based on how small it had to be for the longest monster entry but most of the cards have significant amounts of blank space that could have been used to increase the font size and make the cards more readable. The font is beautiful but a more readable font would have been preferable.
2. The graphic design of the cards is baffling. All of the monsters are printed on top of larger, semitransparent copies of the same image which only serves to blur and muddle the images of the monsters themselves.
Furthermore, the background of the cards is a dull shade of green which causes the mostly darkly colored monsters to further blend in with the background. This really undercuts the purpose of these cards. If I were to hold these up at a table most of the players wouldn't be able to make out the creature. I'd have to pass the card around so folks can look closely and squint to try an make out the shape & details. Many hours were clearly poured into making the portrait side of these cards very elaborate, but all that effort sadly just makes the cards less useful for thier practical purpose and less aesthetically pleasing to look at for fun. The experience is like going to an art gallery full of dark paintings and the lights have been turned way down.
The idea of these cards is genius and the people behind them are clearly skilled, but the execution has critical flaws that could have been avoided with some good quality control or customer testing.