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Thousands of descriptions IN EXCEL!

Combat Descriptions Broken down into these three categories: 

Combat Description Cards : Blunt Cards

Combat Description Cards : Slashing Cards

Combat Description Cards: Piercing Cards

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. Simple inspiration at a glance!

Plus Additional descriptions from the ‘Description Cards Storytelling Deck

Ill Intent Cards

Ill Intent Cards: (All 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.  

Expressions Cards:Inspiring and unique ways to describe  the wicked, foul or villainous characters in your story.

Expressions Cards:(All 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.

Character Distinctions Cards: Examples of physical distinctions and traits to make any character in your story unique and  memorable.

Character Distinctions Cards: (All 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.

 Environment Cards: Thoughtful descriptions of sights, smells,  sounds and sensations from mountains,  swamps, deserts and forests.

Environment Cards: (All 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.

Pain Cards: How does pain feel? Find scores of well-written  examples of how characters experience various  levels of pain.

Pain Cards: (All 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.

Labyrinth Cards:Examples of physical distinctions and traits to make any character in your story unique and  memorable.

Labyrinth Cards:(All 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.

Here's what the Combat Description Card Writer's & GM grid includes a zip file with the following:

  • Combat Description Cards Writer's Grid in .xls format (Microsoft Excel versions 1997-2003

  • Combat Description Cards Writer's Grid in .xlsx format (Microsoft Excel Version 2007 or greater)
  • Combat Description Cards Writer's Grid converted.xls to a pdf format 

  • Combat Description Cards Writer's Grid in .ods format (Open Document Spreedsheet)

Please Note: This product contains multiple files for compatiablity purposes.

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Screenshot of Combat Description Cards and Storyteller's deck in excel

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Screenshot of Combat Description Cards and Storyteller's deck in excel


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Screenshot of Combat Description Cards and Storyteller's deck in excel

Try this spreedsheet out for yourself, we think you are going to love it!

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Alex Y December 04, 2015 8:03 pm UTC
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Does the grid contain all the descriptions that exist on the cards? Just wondering because the non-combat sections say "A handful of descriptions", whereas the cards pdf says 12 cards.

Thanks!
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mark S January 24, 2020 4:09 pm UTC
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All descriptions are included. Plus a few that did not make the final printed product. So you get more than normal.
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mark S March 22, 2015 6:29 am UTC
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Fixed! The Excel and Open Office files have been returned to this product's download. Please the following file: DescriptionsCardsWritersGridv1.1.zip
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Paul S March 21, 2015 7:10 pm UTC
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The product description made it sound like there were excel files included but I only see PDFs
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Mark S March 21, 2015 7:13 pm UTC
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it certainly should be xls files. Let me check...
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Mark S March 21, 2015 7:25 pm UTC
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Paul, I sent you an email with the fill zip file. Let me know if this works for you. In the meanwhile, I am contacting DTRPG support to correct the issue.
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Paul S March 21, 2015 7:30 pm UTC
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Wow, that was fast. I just noticed the support email address for your company and was in the middle of writing an email to you when I received the notification of this update. The attachment worked perfectly. . Thanks
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