Encounter Cards (D&D) - Challenge Rating 0-6 PACK 1

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Designed to rest on the top of your DM screen, these 30 encounter cards feature all-new gorgeous artwork on the front and DM info on the back. DM info includes the full 2014 D&D stat block and exclusive Beadle & Grimm’s Tactical Tips.

Tactical Tips are combat hints for the DM provided in collaboration with award-winning monster combat blogger Keith Ammann.

"Never go into battle without a plan! With the Tactical Tips on these Encounter Cards, you'll never have to wonder what your monsters and NPCs are trying to do or how they should go about it. They know what they're doing—and so will you!"

- Keith Amman

Cards included in PACK 1:

  • Ankheg
  • Basilisk
  • Bearded Devil
  • Black Dragon Wyrmling
  • Brass Dragon, Young
  • Chasme
  • Chuul
  • Cultist
  • Ettin
  • Flesh Golem
  • Gelatinous Cube
  • Giant Fire Beetle
  • Gibbering Mouther
  • Gnoll
  • Goblin
  • Green Hag
  • Hill Giant
  • Hobgoblin
  • Lizardfolk
  • Mage
  • Magma Mephit
  • Manticore
  • Merrow
  • Mimic
  • Owlbear
  • Quasit
  • Swarm of Rats
  • Troll
  • Umber Hulk
  • Vampire Spawn
  1. Combat Preferences. Many creatures prefer either melee or ranged combat, moving often or standing in place, and either absorbing or avoiding damage.
  2. Flight Threshold. Whether a creature fights to the death or runs-and when.
  3. Preferred Attack. Everyone has a go-to move.
  4. The Basics. Their thing, in a nutshell.
  5. Encounter Tips!

 

  • 5 stars: 29 (76%)
  • 4 stars: 4 (11%)
  • 3 stars: 5 (13%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 0 (0%)
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Alex Carroll
Questionable value

The quality is good. I bought all 4 packs, and it's just a random selection of monsters, not everything in the MM. It makes the value questionable when you might or might not have a card for any given creature.

Thanks Alex. It is important to note that all of the monsters included are on our product pages so you know exactly which monsters you're going to get so you can plan your encounters accordingly! You're right that it's not the entire MM.

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Craig Feldman
Beloved game enhancement

I adore these, but I think my players love them even more. Whenever I drape one of these over my DM screen, they get giddy. I asked if my players preferred these or accurate-esque miniatures for enemies; They said, "Both! But if we had to choose one, the cards."

There's nothing we like to hear more about than giddy players. Thanks for the story! Love it!

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Peter Norris
Super cool!

Awesome idea with draping these over the DM screen. Beautiful artwork and super helpful strategy hints for each monster. Please make more! I'll buy every set!

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Michael

Will be used constantly

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Jasper Lister
Amazing quality

The encounter packs are such a handy tool to have a n my DM arsenal. They are a high quality product that I would recommend to anyone and make encounters even better and easier

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Noel
Awesome Encounters

Thank you for creating the perfect addition to anyone's game that elevates everyones experiance, your company has the POV of players and is full of beautiful detail.

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Matthew Caffrey

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michael.chapman
Great RPG stuff

The cards are great for what you want them to do

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V Odedra
Really nice card set

Really good set of cards for 5e d&d

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Wooz

Encounter Cards (D&D) - Challenge Rating 0-6 PACK 1

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Valeria

Arrived in perfect condition

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Jesse

I love these cards! And it's only missing a few creatures like the deep gnome, but it's perfect otherwise!

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David Trumphour

Encounter Cards (D&D) - Challenge Rating 0-6 PACK 1

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Ryan Dize
So awesome

This is such a great way to keep track of monsters and show people what they're fighting at the same time. Love how they hang on the DM screen

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Vincente Boreros
Encounter Cards

Wow, what a difference this makes. I wish they had them when I played in the 80s.

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Anonymous
Don't buy one when you could buy all of them

They need a stand and a book with sleeves to put them in....one of my favorite DnD purchases for the year

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Dustin Ritchea
Encounter Cards on Roll Seekers

Beadle & Grimm's recently sent us their Encounter Cards (D&D) to use on our livestream. These cards are a wonderful addition to our actual play, and we can't wait to use them regularly!

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LUCAS MARTIN
Pleased with the cards

They arrived in perfect condition and the hints on each card helps a lot more than I thought they would. one less thing for me to focus on and try to think about how each creature would behave.

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Marco Føhns-Greve
Great design, amazing customer service. Poor product packaging.

The designs themselves are great. Unlike the ones in the premium boxes, these come with tactical tips, flavor information on how to run them - just wonderful. I love the artwork, I love the overall function of the encounter cards, and I am giddy every time I get more of them. My players love seeing them. Overall 5/5 product design.

I received a lot of damaged cards. But customer service has been good and forthcoming with a replacement shipment. 5/5 customer service.

My replacements came packed loosely with another heavy box, in a plastic bag. Many of them were crushed even worse than my original shipment. At the end of the day I have a mostly complete (without damage) set of encounter cards, from the original and the replacement, and I feel okay with the end result, though I would let anyone know that they might be quite beat up when they arrive, if they are shipped more than next door from the warehouse. My original delivery wasn't quite as poorly packed (came in a shipping box at least), but the design of the product packaging would never have resulted in mint condition on arrival. I hope B&G get a packaging-design goblin, who can make sure that soft products such as these arrive in the same premium quality inner packaging as the premium boxes. 2/5 product packaging.

Marco,
Thanks for your feedback! We've listened and will make sure we avoid similar packaging issues in the future.
Happy adventuring!
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Joe Raper
Awesome pack

Absolutely love the pack would love to see more monsters from the monster manual, but other than that it is an amazing purchase that will help my games in the future

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M.J.
I LOVE these cards!!

Seriously, outstanding cards. I love the alternative art so as to have a fresh take instead if the same art for the last ten years. I have all the GF9 card sets and bring able to have these out front for my players to see make these extra handy. I can't wait to see the new sets coming up and I'll be ordering the CR 7+ kit and the storage box with a quickness. Hopefully, y'all will be releasing the cards from the Premium sets as solo purchases in the future. Thanks B&G's!

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Jason conners
Excellent... except?

I have the first two pack 0-6. I absolutely adore them and everything I've snagged from you guys so far. I just one issue with these. No kobolds? Seems an oddly common creature to not include in these packs. I was mostly wondering if we should expect more of these packs to include more of the most common monsters.

Jason,
We appreciate your giving kobolds a little love, and we'll make sure we keep them in mind for future sets!
Thanks!
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Josheau Williams
Nice cards, but

The way they were packaged they arrived bent, and there weren't as many cards as I thought, and the box is massive overkill considering how empty it looks with all four packs in it.

Josheau,
Thanks for your feedback! The Encounter Card Storage Case was designed to hold not only the 4 packs of stand-alone Encounter Cards but also all of the cards included in all our Premium Editions published to date. We also plan on continuing to release new sets of Encounter Cards both for new adventures and also themed sets based on CR or other criteria. So we wanted to make sure there was room to grow you collection!
Thanks!
Web Goblin

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Travis Hathorn
Honest Review

The Art and everything is good but the cards them selves are flimsy and cheap. Thicker card stock would have been nice. I sorta regret buying them based on that alone.

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Ted

Awesome quality. Shipped and packaged as expected. Price may not be suitable for some.

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Mike

Once again exceeds my expectations

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Matthew

I haven't had much need for these yet but the art is good, the info is great, and the players like the extra bit toward story crafting they give as I am not the best with description.

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Matthew

Perfect!

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Victoria Kirk
Brilliant! 🤩

These cards are brilliant and a perfect edition to our game. Our group plays “theatre of the mind” style because minis get expensive, so the cards are a perfect scene setter when introducing a new challenge.
I’m looking forward to ordering more B&G loot in the future!

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Phillip Held
Encounter cards

The cards arrived quickly and in great condition Have already used a few of them and they are great!