I'd love it. Actually that would be something I could have a use for. If for no other reason it gives me a good physical image to show folks of whatever they're facing. Cards like "Hellknight" or "Varisian Dancer" or "Otyugh" where I can just flip to the card and show it without having to slog through the books.
Similarly if something like that had little scenery snapshots of various places--ruins, cities, geographical features. That would be priceless.
Heck, I wouldn't even mind a few pictures of NPCs who we've met but are gone already. I would love a Nualia card.
Not to mention I would love to see their artist, Vincent, do some people. Particularly people from the AP. That would be crazy cool.
I would buy all of them.
I'd be very interested in something like this.
I didn't rush to post in this thread- but here's my concern. There's a great of pushback over the campaign specific item cards right now, specifically their inclusion in the Chronicles Subscription. Those item cards, while specific to the ROTRL campaign, are still generic enough to be used for any setting.
These 'campaign cards' would not and could not be generic in any way, they'd be very specific to a Runelords Campaign and the target market would be a Runelords GM. Ergo you have an even smaller consumer base to which to sell them. Even if they weren't included in any subscription, how big of a pool of consumers do you have to sell them?
If one is going to have a harangue about the Item Cards being a specialized GM aid and not applicable to some GMs, I have to question whether these 'Campaign Cards' are really feasible or not.
And I'm not having a vield jab at anybody, especially the OP. I'm just being pragmatic, since a similiar product with a broader and more general application is being resisted.
Would I support campaign cards? Maybe. Sounds interesting certainly.. But what stops people from saying "I just take art out of the PDF, print it, and show my players- why should I buy this?"
Lots of ideas sound cool until you're asked to pay for them.
Sorry if I offend.
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Would I support campaign cards? Maybe. Sounds interesting certainly.. But what stops people from saying "I just take art out of the PDF, print it, and show my players- why should I buy this?"
Excellent point!
I personaly get free PDFs, and I mostly use them to extract maps and handouts to print, as well as pictures of monsters, places and NPCs to show in a Power Point, and extract stat blocks for easier reference
I'm realy not sure campaing cards would be useful to me...
As Djoc said in getting the PDFs I can actually take the pictures of all major NPCs and Monsters as well.
I then print them on 3x5 cards. I don't put names on them so I can actually reuse nearly all of them for other games I run.
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It's just an idea, but how about taking the item cards one step further? Who'd like campaign cards? Cards featuring the NPCs, Monsters, and Iconics of the RotRL adventure path?
One side is there picture, the other, their stats, similar to the item cards.
I think this is an excellent idea. I'd buy one to accompany every issue of Pathfinder, and even one per module as well. Bring 'em on!
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I am not sure that they would sell enough to offset the printing cost and keep them reasonable.
BUT, this is the sort of thing that would make a nice value add to each PAP volume. NPC cards, unique item cards, location cards for each volume grouped into ready to print on single pages of easily sourced printer cardstock? Complete with "cut here" lines? Didn't they do this a few times with Dungeon Online Supplements a few times?
Or, I wonder how much it would cost them to print a single page of cardstock per PAP double sided color with microperfs? Lets face it PAP specific cards don't have the reuse factor of the other card sets so they don't really warrant the same level of production quality. For the usefulness of the cards and to keep price reasonable I could live with lighter stock and little ridges on the edges. Sold in one or 2 page packs per PAP or in wrap up groupings at the end of each run would be cool too.