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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simplicity" data-source="post: 2846664" data-attributes="member: 1496">So I picked up one of the GameMastery Item Packs (#1) the other day.  54 cards showing various magic items.  A good buy, I thought (only 10 bucks or so).  But I noticed that the future item packs have gone the way of randomization...  $4 packs, containing 11 items each (out of a total of 110 items) IIRC.Great.  Just what I wanted to do as a DM.  Actually find the Rod of Seven Parts before I can put it in my game.While I'm a fan of the randomized pre-painted plastic, and even randomized card games...  Randomized RPG helper cards annoys me.  Really, really annoys me.  I recognize that a $20 pack of cards with items on them probably won't sell well.  But I find it hard to imagine that people are going to dish out too much money toward these packs...  Maybe I'm wrong.Are they expecting people to try to collect all of the "foil" card items?  Why?  Because the art is cool and you can't use a generic "staff" when you really want a "Staff"?  The item names are all generic so that they can be used for Staffs of the Magi or something...  What exactly does a foil card encompass?  Then again, maybe they're just "nudge, nudge" cards...  DM: You find a generic sword.Paladin Player: Hey...  Why does it have the words "Holy Vengence is mine!" inscribed on it?DM: Figure it out.</blockquote>