Animal companions and familiars are more than just servants—they’re some of the most versatile allies in the Pathfinder RPG. Give your devoted companions the prominence they deserve with Pathfinder Face Cards: Animal Allies, a collection of more than 50 gorgeously illustrated cards depicting the most common animal companions in the Pathfinder RPG, but suitable for use in any fantasy roleplaying game! Each card includes space to record key details and artwork by Paizo’s finest illustrators, ensuring you’ll never forget your capable companions again!
ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-529-7
Included Animals
Ape
Badger
Bat
Bear
Bison
Boar
Camel
Cat, Big
Cat, Small
Compsognathus
Crocodile
Dire Bear
Dire Tiger (Sabertooth)
Dire Wolf
Dog
Dolphin
Donkey Rat
Elk
Flying Squirrel
Fox
Goat
Hawk
Hedgehog
Horse
House Cat
House Centipede
Hyena
King Crab
It's my own fault for making assumptions, but I expected these to have stats on them in addition to the space for notes, which would make them very useful for referencing w/Summon Nature's Ally. Instead, I paid $11 for deck of paintings of animals that I can write on. Not sure how useful they'll be.
Really? The art's nice enough. The cards can be useful, but did nobody on your staff stay awake during basic biology in high school? I can let the gorilla slide as an ape since they are, but chimps are NOT monkeys. They are also apes. The monkey card is the card I was looking for. You might have had a spider monkey, or a capuchin (cliche, but at least a monkey) or a siamang or even a proboscis monkey. Nope. You stuck me with a chimp. And not just any chimp, but one apparently having some sort of spastic attack. What the heck is up with that?
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I like the idea of this deck, bit of love and attention for the neglected animal friend.
I second your suggestion Kaleb. Cards with all the stats on one side and a pic on the other. Sadly one deck could probably only do half the monsters on a list, so 4 would do monsters and nature allies.
Thanks Joanna. I dont read the blogs unless I happen to see a thread on the messageboards. (Or I read it and promptly forgot it in my middleaged haze of declining faculties...)
I was excited when I saw this product until I realized that apparently the cards don't include stats for the animal companions they represent. A swing and a miss on this one guys. :(
First of all, none of our Face Cards ever have stats, because you can use them to represent things that are not necessarily standard.
Second, since familiars' Hit Dice, hit points, attack bonus, saving throws, skills, and abilities depend on their masters' abilities, the value of putting stats on the cards is questionable anyway.
but like ths, you can buy 3rd-party printable stat cards, or print your own
(with any non-std bonus you could have, like the human alt giving +2 , augmented summonning, ...) and put it back to back with the nice picture in a sleeve.
So since these are Face Cards, do they actually have close-ups of the animal faces, or are they full-body shots?
How dangerous does the wolf look? I have a worg in my game that has allied temporarily with the PCs. Could the wolf pass for a worg or is it obviously not a worg?
So since these are Face Cards, do they actually have close-ups of the animal faces, or are they full-body shots?
They're a mix of full-body and head shots.
Wolf Munroe wrote:
How dangerous does the wolf look? I have a worg in my game that has allied temporarily with the PCs. Could the wolf pass for a worg or is it obviously not a worg?
It looks fairly dangerous, and there's no indication of scale; apart from not having red eyes, it could probably pass for a worg.