The Game Master's Deck of Boons and Banes: 40 game-changing, character-shifting cards and a companion book for 5th edition RPG adventures (The Game Master Series)

Another inspiring product from the Game Master's series, this time a small book and a series of cards presented in a high quality magnetically sealed box. These cards and the book provide a series of conditions that might help or hinder your players, for each one you get a page of text describing the condition with ideas as to how you might work them into your story and how each could be gained or removed. These were created by Ginny Di and they provide excellent inspiration. The artwork is first class and atmospheric. Love them.

Fabulous artwork.. Just purchased as a big fan of DnD anyway but love this artist work too!

The quality of the box is amazing and the design well thought out: The cards are kept secure and the booklet doesn't slip out. I love the artwork on the cards/in the booklet, even the backs of the cards are stunning! The Boons and Banes themselves are really cool, thematic and mechanically sound with tips on how to scale them based on party level. My only wish is that there were even more but 40 cards is hardly skimpy! Love it and will be using them on my party soon.

I read about this online and thought it was a great idea and when I received it still feel exactly the same. The book included though is too small making it a bit hard to read quickly - I took a photo and zoomed in to read it on my phone and was much better! A digital version of the book included I think would be a good idea unless they can print this a bit bigger.

Adventure awesome cool

Fantastic GM,s tool for any system get it now.

Absolutely great designs with both the cards, the book and just the whole box itself. Would highly recommend to get and use during campaigns.

The deck is very good quality and feels like an expensive and well-thought-out product. The deck itself comes with slots for all the items so it can be stored and transported very easily. Bought it as a Christmas gift for my brother-in-law who is also our dungeon master and he seems very excited to use it for our campaign!

This deck of beautiful cards will give you as a DM, inspiration to side-quests and a way to reward/challange your players. As a player a way to deepen your player characters story.

Edit: Concerning the reviewers complaining that card info is not printed on the back of the card, this is absolutely the same as, and in theme with, the official DnD cards developed and sold by Wizards of the Coast… Go look at them… Comments on the book size, are kind of fair though… Neat little set with a tarot card feel, that could be used for many things. Nice solid box to keep everything together, with a magnetic closure. The book could have MAYBE been, like 1 cm wider, to match (see side on picture) but it’s not too small, still manageable despite the large amount of content. Only noticed this set is by Ginny Di (once I had received and handled the product) a very engaged D&D content creator, (amongst other things) that I only recently came across. An amazing opening product to have put on Amazon!

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I was really pleasantly surprised by the quality of everything about this. The box is great. The cards have a wonderful finish. The art is fantastic. The content is fun and creative. Some of them are anything but mild, but self-aware about it: they include ways to scale them back. This is a great product from a great creator who would have earned the support even if the product were terrible. And it's anything but terrible. If I have one nit to pick, the binding of the book is a bit stiff. With its small size, reading takes a bit more effort than is ideal. And it certainly isn't something you can set down open to a certain page. I'm more than willing to overlook that because having the content separate from the arts on the cards opens up the possibility of reusing the cards for other purposes. But a digital reference to consult during play would be very handy.

My favorite dm series has been the Gms book of blank___ I really appreciated this creators written adventures and have used 2 of then in my campaigns. They inspired some really good staples in my current campaign. In gratitude for her free content and with it being my favorite ttrpg resource i just picked up her boons and banes. I didn't know exactly what to expect. I was expecting cards and some positives and negatives. The quality was much higher then I had expectations for. The small book inside fits nicely in the box. It's a touch tough to keep open but that's OK it's a new book it will with time. The art is beautiful and the cards inspire. The book is concise and makes sense.