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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 3400866" data-attributes="member: 1">Well, used 'em tonight for the first time.  They went down a storm.  However, despite having a few hundred of the darn things, I still didn't have enough in there to run one session, let alone a campaign.  I only had the one rapier card, one feather card (for feather tokens - needed 3 tonight), 5 "gem" type cards, 2 chain shirt cards, only a lute for musical instruments, no hats... etc.  I'll forgive 'em for not having the Talisman of the Sphere card (despite it being given to the party in the very first AoW adventure!) or the Hand of the Mage card on account of them being somewhat unusual items, and I'llc ertianly overlook them not having a card for the rug with the shifting geometric patters to be found in an Age of Worms adventure!On the birght side, I do have 40-odd unused rod, staff and wand cards....The large number of potion and scroll cards was very useful - burned through about half of them today, though.In summary - very nice.  Players loved them.  But not enough range in there (and I'm not talking about the unusual stuff).  One rapier but 40-odd rods, staves and wands is not a good ratio!  I figure I could increase that, but only by spending hundreds of dollars to get a reasonable number of each of the more common stuff, which would give me hundreds of unused cards when it comes to some other stuff.Not sure what the solution would be - obviously selling them individually isn't practical.  Maybe smaller themed sets would be better; I really never need another rod, staff or wand!I did have a great idea tonight which I may try.  I had the idea of using an item slot diagram, but instead of a space to write what's in the slot, put a clear plastic card holder instead.  Then you can see at a glance what item is where.  Another couple of larger card holders to represent backpack, other containers, etc. Mount it all on a sturdy piece of card.  It may end up a bit large, though - it would need about 20 card holders on the one sheet of card, so it may not be practical.  But I'll play around and try to make a mockup of it.  Should be fun!They complement EN Publishing's Fantasy Money really well.  Shopping was fun, actually exchanging cards for money.  They have a nice, durable, tangible feel to them.</blockquote>

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