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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 2011361" data-attributes="member: 232">Monster Cards    I find it a nifty coincidence that this is my current review.  There is a thread on EN World that I have been following about monster statistics in modules.  In the thread the question was raised should stats be under the encounter they appear in or in an appendix in the back.  I along with some other posters thought that a third option would be the best, a pull out section or index card like pull out that can easily be referenced.  It would make it so there was not constantly flipping from the encounter to the appendix and the stats would not take up a lot of room in the adventure.      The Complete Monster Cards is a series of pdfs all in one nice little bundle.  It comes in a zip file a little over four megs in size.  Inside are eight pdfs and one small text file.  This is a product that has basically no art in it.  They are cards that are made to be printed out.  So it is not designed for reading on the lap top or computer.  There are also no book marks in any of the pdfs as well.      The creatures presented here are from the SRD.  It would have been nice to see a select few OGL monsters presented here as well, but the ones from the SRD are the ones used more often.  The cards are divided into different categories.  Each PDF is its own category.      The first PDF is of monsters.  It’s the largest PDF and is eighty pages in length.  It covers the widest range of creatures like the Basilisk, Shambling Mound, and Griffon.  There are nine cards per page and the PDF is designed to be printed front and back.  The stat blocks line up so when one cuts the cards out there is info on the front and back of the cards.       The next PDF covers the dragons.  Even though it only covers the dragons from the SRD it is fifty four pages in length.  Each age category of the dragons is presented here on a card.  The three oldest age categories are one bigger cards since they have much more information on them.  The dragons are average for their species just like all the creatures in the monster cards are.  It recommends though that Dragons are the most likely to need to be altered from average since most Dragon encounters are a little more important then average.      There is a PDF of animals.  It is only sixteen pages and covers the animals.  There are blank cards presented in each PDF for easy use by DMs that would like to make their own cards of creatures not presented here.    The other PDFs are of vermin, Monster Summoning one through nine, summon nature’s ally one through nine, hydras, animal companion (only the wolf, hawk, and paladin’s mount but written up with different HD), and then a set of blank monster cards.      Overall, it is a nice collection of creatures in an easy to use and useful format.  The item does have to be printed and that can add to the cost of the product.  It is a nice answer to question of how to reference stat blocks.</blockquote>

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