Description Cards—Storytellers Deck: Pain Cards Excerpt PDF

How Do You Describe Pain?

Find scores of well-written examples and key words on how to describe various levels of pain to your audience.

For Writers and Gamemasters (GMs) it's difficult to convey pain, and even specific types of pain, to an audience who's comfortably sitting at home in an easy chair or around a gaming table. The Pain Cards attempt to help writers, storytellers and GMs in this regard by providing adjectives and keywords that can be used to convey pain. With each word there are two separate examples on the use of words - one example more severe than the next. Use these keywords and inspiring examples to convey pain in a unique and compelling way.

This storytelling tool:

• Encourages writers to show, not just say that it was painful.
• Adds depth and drama to any of your story's combat scenes.
• Is great for Gamemasters who wish to better express their players' hits, damages or injuries.
• Can tip your essay, blog, novel or gaming table from good to great!
• Is written for any genre.
• By design, is system neutral and super flexible.
• Is both a reference and a brainstorming tool.
• Offers fresh ways to describe pain.
• Includes a collage of beautiful card art from Rafael Dorsz.

All Conflict Games PDFs have the following document features:

• Indexed: PDF contains a full Index for the entire suite of cards
• Searchable: PDF is not just images of the cards, but contains fully searchable text.
• Selectable: Each Action Word and Description can be selected, highlighted or copied out of the PDF.
• Layered PDF: There are some decorative items (like the color bars) within the presentation of the cards which you can choose not to print by unselecting the Adobe layer.
• Cutlines: The PDF is designed for you to cut out the cards from your printed 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. Therefore we provide cutlines to help you line up your scissors or cutting board.