Gloaming Bestiary Board Game Card Template
by ShuffleKit
A bestiary card set for a monster-hunting board game: Beast, Spirit, Wyrm and Golem fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. Each creature is painted into a page torn from a hunter's journal, under a cost hexagon, a rolled parchment name scroll and a dark class plaque. A torn parchment panel below holds the creature's traits and its entry, with an ink study sketch pinned in the corner. The frame is built from editable shapes, so the hexagon and the plaque's rim are fills you can recolour, and the class typed on the plaque picks each card's front. Comes with an eight-card sample deck of invented creatures.
- Designs
- 5
- Sample cards
- 8
- Card size
- Poker — 2.5 × 3.5 in
- 63.5 × 88.9 mm · 750 × 1050 px at 300 DPI
- Card fields
- Name
- Artwork
- Subtitle
- Cost
- Traits
- Description
Adding a template copies its designs, fields, and sample cards into your own project. Your copy is yours, and later changes by the author never touch it.
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What’s in Gloaming Bestiary Board Game Card Template
Five designs: Beast Card, Spirit Card, Wyrm Card, Golem Card and Card Back.
Your cards live in a sheet, one row each, with a column for every field the designs read: Name, Artwork, Subtitle, Cost, Traits and Description. Eight of those rows arrive filled in, so there is something on the design before you type a word.
Read the eight sample cards
| Name | Subtitle | Cost | Traits | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bramblehorn | Beast | 4 | Horned · Territorial | Keeps to the oldest groves and charges anything that bleeds inside them. Arrows only catch in the veil of moss and briar over its head, but its flank is soft as a calf's. Hunters bait it into a clearing with a lick of salt and strike from the branches above. |
| Wallowback | Beast | 3 | Amphibious · Patient | Lies still in the shallows for days, until reeds take root along its back and frogs nest on its shell. When it rises, half the riverbank goes under the water with it. Set fire to the moss on its shell and it will crawl out of the water to put the flames out. |
| Gloamwisp | Spirit | 2 | Wandering · Lure | Drifts over the marshes at dusk with its lantern swinging like a lost traveller's. Anyone who follows the light walks out into deep water and does not come back. Throw a cloak over the lantern and the wisp forgets its way until the moon is up. |
| Bellwraith | Spirit | 5 | Haunting · Resonant | Tolls once at midnight above the ruined chapel where it was cast. Anyone still awake at the second toll falls asleep where they stand, and few of them ever wake. Bind the clapper in wool from a black ewe and the wraith stays silent until dawn. |
| Reedwyrm | Wyrm | 6 | Venomous · Coiling | Coils in the reed beds of the lower, drowned fens and strikes at anything that wades in past its knees. The venom numbs the leg before it starts to burn. It never crosses running water, so the old fen guides ford every river twice on the way home. |
| Ashwing | Wyrm | 7 | Winged · Fire-scarred | Nests in burnt-out watchtowers and circles the villages it has already burned down once. Its wings are as thin as old, patched sailcloth, and a volley of hooked iron bolts will tear them. Brought to the ground, it is slow to turn and slower still to rise. |
| Cairnwarden | Golem | 5 | Ancient · Unyielding | Raised long ago to guard a barrow, it still walks the old stone circle every night. Blades only chip it, and fire only warms its stones. Pull the keystone from the middle of its back and it sinks down into a heap of cairn stones until the new moon rises. |
| Kilnback | Golem | 4 | Smouldering · Lumbering | Built by potters to haul clay, then left burning when the village emptied. It wanders from kiln to cold kiln looking for more fuel, and it will take a thatched roof. Pour a barrel of water through its furnace door and it cools to brick where it stands. |
Printing at poker size
Poker: 2.5 × 3.5 in, 63.5 × 88.9 mm, 750 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI.
On the Hobby plan, export a print-ready PDF with bleed and cut lines. PNG and SVG come out at the same size, which is what Tabletop Simulator wants. On Indie, send it to a print-on-demand partner through Print & Ship.
A printer asks for an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge on top of those numbers, so this card goes out as 825 × 1125. The export adds it. Let the artwork run into the bleed and keep the text inside the cut line, and nothing arrives trimmed.
Questions about Gloaming Bestiary Board Game Card Template
Everything you need to know before getting started.
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What happens when I add Gloaming Bestiary Board Game Card Template to a project?
The five designs, the six fields and the eight sample cards are copied into a project of yours, with the fields already pointed at the design. Nothing stays linked to this page afterwards, so the author's later edits never reach your copy.
What size does Gloaming Bestiary Board Game Card Template print at?
Poker size: 2.5 × 3.5 in, 63.5 × 88.9 mm, 750 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI. Those are the numbers to hand a print shop, and the ones to check a sleeve against.
Is Gloaming Bestiary Board Game Card Template free?
Yes. Adding it, editing it, filling it with your own cards and playtesting it online are all free. Exporting print files starts on the Hobby plan, and Print & Ship through The Game Crafter is on Indie. No template sits behind a paid plan.
Can I change the designs?
Yes. They land in your project as ordinary layouts, so you can drag an element somewhere else, put your own art behind the frame, restyle the type or rename a field. Edit a design once and every card on it follows.
Can I use my own cards instead of the samples?
Yes — the samples are rows in a sheet, and they are there to be overwritten. Type over them, add rows of your own, or bring a CSV and match its headers to the fields.
Can I sell a game made with Gloaming Bestiary Board Game Card Template?
Yes. This one is ours, and you keep commercial rights to what you build from it, crowdfunding and retail included.
Ready to build your card game?
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