The Game Master’s Deck of Boons and Banes is a GM tool that brings the thrill of epic adventures and dire consequences to your tabletop games with 40 stunningly illustrated cards!

Conceived by tabletop RPG expert Ginny Di and featuring 20 boon and 20 bane cards, all stunningly illustrated by Tim Foley, this deck will help you advance player goals or hurl them (and your story) in an entirely different direction! Upon drawing a bane card, for example, a character might suffer a curse that threatens to strangle them the more active they are. However, pulling a boon could very well bestow a blessing from a higher power, such as a pair of guardian wolves that travel with the character wherever they go.

The exact composition of the deck is up to the GM. The boons are a great temptation―but drawing a bane could bring about a crippling result. Players will need to weigh the odds every time. Will your players be navigating planes with ease or controlling magical darkness, or will they be harried by mischievous imps or attacked by their own treacherous shadow? It’s up to you!

• 20 boon cards that bestow powerful abilities on your players

• 20 bane cards that impose challenges on your players

• a guidebook containing the mechanical effects of each card, two related quest hooks for each, and tips for scaling them for characters below level 10