Monster cards?

[Steve Geddes]

Are there any plans on producing series of cards with monsters from the Bestiary?

I think it would be cool to have cards with a picture for the players on one side and an 'essential statblock' on the back. In my mind they'd need to be bigger than the usual gamemastery cards (more like Tarot sized).

[MongooseMan]

+1

I would absolutely love this. I'd pay as much for the cards as I did for the book itself without a second thought.

[azhrei_fje]

+2

I collected the {monster,NPC,item} decks that TSR put out back in the early 90's and I still have them. I love the artwork as well as the idea that I can hand the card to a player and say, "You found this."

[Evil Genius Prime]

+3! This is a great idea!

[stuart haffenden]

You could use these to make them yourself. Just extract the data for one side and pictures for the other.

[Steve Geddes]

Ok this didnt get much attention, but I'll bump it just in case. Have there been any previous discussions about something like this?

I could imagine getting a huge amount of use from them and figure that the artwork at least would be relatively inexpensive (since it could usually be taken from other sources, although some monsters might need to be redrawn to suit the format). I wouldnt see them competing with the bestiary or anything - the statblock on the back would be a severely abridged version with the most commonly used combat stats and maybe a list of abilities (with no explanatory text).

Again, my preference would be larger than the standard gamemastery cards - tarot size would be ideal, imo.

[Broven]

I started working on some of my own until Paizo comes out with something official. They are 4x5, but they don't have images, unfortunately. I used most of the room, front and back, to fit in as much useful info as I could. I'm kind of a newb at GM'ing and I was finding myself having to spend way to much time looking things up during combat, so I tried to include all the pertinent info in one place.

So far I've only done a 20 creatures (starting at the beginning of the Bestiary), but I intend to do them all over the course of the next few weeks - or maybe months :P

I also intend to make some blank ones that are set up for PC and NPC info, so I can keep track of that too. Also, that will let me just use the cards to keep track of the initiative order.

Anyway, you can download the first part here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?baraewfupdcuonp

If anyone's interested, I can upload the others as I get them done.

Also, I am interested in comments or suggestions. Changing the layout at this point would be a real pain as my Acrobat skills are pretty lacking. But if anyone has a compelling reason to add or subtract anything, I'd love to hear it.