This 138 Card deck is filled with hundreds of inspiring ways to describe the nuances of magic. Each card contains action words and examples to spark the imagination. The deck is organized into 17 individual schools of magic and printed on large 4.25"x 2.75"(Tarot-sized) cards.
The cards contain flavor text designed for Writers, Storytellers, and GMs (system neutral).
Broken down into:
• Blast Spells
• Touch Spells
• Area Spells
• Magic Barriers
• Spell Failures
Creative Inspiration for Writers, Storytellers, and GMs
Three card decks providing hundreds of memorable descriptions, synonyms and results of combat strikes. Improve your combat-related vocabulary as a GM, player or writer. Each card contains carefully crafted strike results organized by weapon category and fighting styles.
"We think we can improve every gamer's and reader's experience by providing tools that improve the narrative used when describing combat. This means providing a tool that gamers and writers can use during every combat scene, while improving their own overarching combat vocabulary. - Mark M. Scott "
This Storytelling Tool Features:
- Add depth, excitement and drama to your fight scenes and stories!
- A deck full of new ideas for your combat narrative.
- Gamesmasters and Players who wants to spice up the wordplay in combat will love this product
- Have in your hands a list of adjectives and professional writing examples of their use.
- Killing blows description (skull) and non-deadly blows are describe with each key action word.
- Better than a Thesaurus, learn to make your fight scenes unique and memorable with key words designed around combat.
- Helps you develop your story's characters and their fighting styles.
- Although the cards lean towards fantasy fiction, they are written in neutral and flexible ways to meet any genre.
- These cards can tip your essay, blog, novel or gaming table from good to great!
- Flip through the cards or choose a card at random for an encouraging action word or a delightful thought-provoking action phrase.
- Transform your combat results from ho-hum to High tension.
- Tarot Cards Size (Dimensions: 70mm x 121mm, 2.75" x 4.75").
Try these cards, we think you are going to love them...
This 80-card deck is filled with inspiring ways to describe the delicate nuances of your world. Each card contains action words to spark the imagination, followed by multiple examples of their use.
Broken up into 6 individual sets, each set is separately illustrated by Rafael Dorsz and printed on large 4.25” x 2.75” (Tarot-sized) cards.
The 80 Cards are broken down into 6 sets, they are:
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Ill Intent Cards: (12 Cards)
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We Love Villains.
Certain keywords like "murderous" carries with it ill intent. You will find herein, inspiring and unique ways to describe the wicked, foul or villainous characters in your story with the simple use of key venomous words. Each keyword comes with two brief examples. The first, an example introduction of a character using the keyword and the second example illustrates an assault using the same keyword. Use both examples to set the tone of your villain or antagonist.
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Expressions Cards: (12 Cards)
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Expressions, Emotions, Reactions and Feelings.
Each card contains a list of physical and emotional clues characters can display while experiencing feelings, such as anxiety or fear. This set of tarot-sized cards helps address one of the prevalent challenges for writers: How to put into words a person's emotional state and how this emotional state might manifest itself physically. Each card contains an emotion or expression along with a series of bodily signs that will give your audience a unique, compelling way to understand the emotion.
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Character Distinctions Cards: (12 Cards)
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The First Step to Making Your Characters Instantly Memorable.
Rather than giving your audience a long, detailed description of a character’s height, build, facial features, and clothing, it’s best to just show the “essence” of the character, including his personality or state of mind, as perceived by the viewer, through a few well-chosen details. These well-chosen details are presented in tarot-card sized cards that list adjectives, keywords and example descriptions on how to creatively use them all.
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Environment Cards: (12 Cards)
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Describe Memorable Landscapes
It’s important to give your audience (readers or fellow gamers) a sense of place. That is, a landscape they can identify with and/or visualize. The difficultly here is placing a feature, a moment or a mark on the landscape that's memorable and (more importantly) indigenous to the landscape. This is exactly what these cards provide--distinguishable moments, marks and features of the following landscapes: Swamps, Mountains, Deserts/Plains and Forests. Yep, thoughtful descriptions of sights, smells, sounds and sensations from mountains, swamps, deserts, and forests.
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Pain Cards: (12 Cards)
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How Do You Describe Pain?
Find scores of well-written examples and keywords 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 the words--one example more severe than the next. Use these keywords and inspiring examples to covey pain in a unique and compelling way.
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Labyrinth Cards: (12 Cards)
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Great help on Describing Labyrinths, dungeon, and underground settings. The difficulty with an underground setting such as a dungeon is after a short while the rooms and halls begin to sound similar. This is normally because it is hard to come up with fresh distinguishable features for every room and hallway. Coming to the rescue, are these 12 cards. In these cards you will find dozens of examples which describe noteworthy moments, marks and clues in the underground, dungeons or labyrinths.
Try these cards, we think you are going to love them...
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ISBN: 978-0-9824507-9-6
Includes: 80 cards
Creator: Mark M. Scott
A beautiful 4-panel screen which surrounds you with inspiration!
Combat Descriptions Broken down into these three categories:
This beautiful 4-panel screen features magnificent art by Rafael Dorsz on the outer panels. On the inside you will find hundreds of inspirational examples of ways you can describe characters in intense fantasy combat. Strategically organized by the type of damage the character wishes to inflict and the fighting style the character is performing. The types of damage include: BLUNT—Damage caused by non-penetrating force; SLASHING—Damage caused by a sharp edge; and PIERCING—Damage caused by a sharp point. The combat styles include: FINESSE—A character who fights with style and grace, such as the Swashbuckler or Martial Artist; POWER—A character whose fight is based on strength and vigor, such as the Barbarian or Thug; and RANGE—A character who is using a thrown or distance weapon such as a javelin or bow.
Plus Additional descriptions from the ‘Description Cards Storytelling Deck
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Ill Intent Cards: (A handful of descriptions)
We Love Villains.
Certain keywords like "murderous" carries with it ill intent. You will find herein, inspiring and unique ways to describe the wicked, foul or villainous characters in your story with the simple use of key venomous words. Each keyword comes with two brief examples. The first, an example introduction of a character using the keyword and the second example illustrates an assault using the same keyword. Use both examples to set the tone of your villain or antagonist.
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Expressions Cards: (A handful of descriptions)
Expressions, Emotions, Reactions and Feelings.
Each card contains a list of physical and emotional clues characters can display while experiencing feelings, such as anxiety or fear. This set of tarot-sized cards helps address one of the prevalent challenges for writers: How to put into words a person's emotional state and how this emotional state might manifest itself physically. Each card contains an emotion or expression along with a series of bodily signs that will give your audience a unique, compelling way to understand the emotion.
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Character Distinctions Cards: (A handful of descriptions)
The First Step to Making Your Characters Instantly Memorable.
Rather than giving your audience a long, detailed description of a character’s height, build, facial features, and clothing, it’s best to just show the “essence” of the character, including his personality or state of mind, as perceived by the viewer, through a few well-chosen details. These well-chosen details are presented in tarot-card sized cards that list adjectives, keywords and example descriptions on how to creatively use them all.
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Environment Cards: (A handful of descriptions)
Describe Memorable Landscapes
It’s important to give your audience (readers or fellow gamers) a sense of place. That is, a landscape they can identify with and/or visualize. The difficultly here is placing a feature, a moment or a mark on the landscape that's memorable and (more importantly) indigenous to the landscape. This is exactly what these cards provide--distinguishable moments, marks and features of the following landscapes: Swamps, Mountains, Deserts/Plains and Forests. Yep, thoughtful descriptions of sights smells, sounds and sensations from mountains, swamps, deserts and forests.
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Pain Cards: (A handful of descriptions)
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 key words that can be used to convey pain. With each word there are two separate examples on the use of the words--one example more severe than the next. Use these keywords and inspiring examples to covey pain in a unique and compelling way.
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Labyrinth Cards: (A handful of descriptions)
Great help on Describing Labyrinths, dungeon and underground settings. The difficulty with an underground setting such as a dungeon, is after a short while the rooms and halls begin to sound similar. This is normally because it is hard to come up with fresh distinguishable features for every room and hallway. Coming to the rescue, are these 12 cards. In these cards you will find dozens of examples which describe noteworthy moments, marks and clues in the underground, dungeons or labyrinths.
Improve Your Combat Narrative and Storytelling at a Glance!
Sometimes, a Penanggal gains her beauty due to a powerful curse or the actions of a demonic force, though that road is less common than that of black magic. The Penanggalan is also mentioned in Hikayat Abdullah, the first major literary work of Malaysia.
Perfect for you Combat Description, Magic Description or Storyteller’s decks
Perfect for your Gaming Cards (Here's a list of compatible Tabletop Card Games)
Perfect for your Tarot cards or Divination cards
Fits any 70 x 120mm Card set
Fits any 2.75 in x 4.75 in Card set
Perfect for your flashcards
Self-locking
Top loading design holds 150 sleeves cards, 200 unsleeved
Made from archival-safe, acid-free, non-PVC material
Protects your game cards from wear and tear
Water resistant material, liquids will not soak through
Sometimes, a Penanggal gains her beauty due to a powerful curse or the actions of a demonic force, though that road is less common than that of black magic. The Penanggalan is also mentioned in Hikayat Abdullah, the first major literary work of Malaysia.
Perfect for you Combat Description, Magic Description or Storyteller’s decks
Perfect for your Gaming Cards (Here's a list of compatible Tabletop Card Games)
Perfect for your Tarot cards or Divination cards
Fits any 70 x 120mm Card set
Fits any 2.75 in x 4.75 in Card set
Perfect for your flashcards
Self-locking
Top loading design holds 150 sleeves cards, 200 unsleeved
Made from archival-safe, acid-free, non-PVC material
Protects your game cards from wear and tear
Water resistant material, liquids will not soak through
Sometimes, a Penanggal gains her beauty due to a powerful curse or the actions of a demonic force, though that road is less common than that of black magic. The Penanggalan is also mentioned in Hikayat Abdullah, the first major literary work of Malaysia.
Perfect for you Combat Description, Magic Description or Storyteller’s decks
Perfect for your Gaming Cards (Here's a list of compatible Tabletop Card Games)
Perfect for your Tarot cards or Divination cards
Fits any 70 x 120mm Card set
Fits any 2.75 in x 4.75 in Card set
Perfect for your flashcards
Self-locking
Top loading design holds 150 sleeves cards, 200 unsleeved
Made from archival-safe, acid-free, non-PVC material
Protects your game cards from wear and tear
Water resistant material, liquids will not soak through
Perfect for you Combat Description, Magic Description or Storyteller’s decks
Perfect for your Gaming Cards (Here's a list of compatible Tabletop Card Games)
Perfect for your Tarot cards or Divination cards
Fits any 70 x 120mm Card set
Fits any 2.75 in x 4.75 in Card set
Perfect for your flashcards
Self-locking
Top loading design holds 150 sleeves cards, 200 unsleeved
Made from archival-safe, acid-free, non-PVC material
Protects your game cards from wear and tear
Water resistant material, liquids will not soak through
Sometimes, a Penanggal gains her beauty due to a powerful curse or the actions of a demonic force, though that road is less common than that of black magic. The Penanggalan is also mentioned in Hikayat Abdullah, the first major literary work of Malaysia.
Perfect for you Combat Description, Magic Description or Storyteller’s decks
Perfect for your Gaming Cards (Here's a list of compatible Tabletop Card Games)
Perfect for your Tarot cards or Divination cards
Fits any 70 x 120mm Card set
Fits any 2.75 in x 4.75 in Card set
Perfect for your flashcards
Self-locking
Top loading design holds 150 sleeves cards, 200 unsleeved
Made from archival-safe, acid-free, non-PVC material
Protects your game cards from wear and tear
Water resistant material, liquids will not soak through
Monster Description Cards are extensive storytelling tools containing purposely unique flavor text to add realism or memorable characterization to creatures and their subsequent events. These cards provide keywords to spark your imagination and example phrases for their use. Written by novelists and organized by dungeon-masters, the cards are designed for quick on-the-fly use and inherently add randomization. There are 12 categories of monster parts uniquely depicted include, and 9 event categories included. Try these Cards, you’re going to love them.