Review of TTRPG Cards Made Easy illustrations show several TTRPG cards with info banners to describe the characters on the cards

Review of TTRPG Cards Made Easy by DanDMadeEasy!

Quick reference cards are a great tool for helping condense the important information in your game, and are particularly useful for new and young players! Check out here for a set of customizable cards with easy drop in graphics to help you make your own for your games!

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What are TTRPG Cards Made Easy?

TTRPG Cards Made Easy is a ready-made template tool to help you create custom printable TTRPG cards that all have the same format! The full kit includes character tracking cards, creature cards, trifold stand character displays, and initiative tracker cards that can fold over a GM screen for all to see.

A display of the different options for TTRPG Cards Made Easy showing initiative trackers hanging over a GM screen, standee creature cards, character cards, minis, and more.

These cards and tools help give quick information, organized in a uniform manner, so both players and the facilitator can easily see all the core information summarized in one spot.

AND it’s all printable, so you can customize it to what you want… and then cost is relatively low!

How do you make your custom TTRPG Cards Made Easy?

To make your TTRPG Cards Made Easy into custom creations, you just need to click on the little drop in locations on the PDF, and it will direct you to select a saved character image that you have or a banner from the provided folders.

For the ones we made, we wanted to make a few characters that we liked since we wanted to play as them in a TTRPG we have planned, so we used screenshots of those characters and made them as we thought they would be from the video game or show they are in.

Image shows a screenshot of the TTRPG Cards Made Easy template with four characters filled out: Link, Senshi, Zelda, and Entrapta
Template with top row filled in and the bottom row showing blank cards that have yet to be filled in to display the clickable drop in locations. Characters in the top row are: Link from Legend of Zelda (WW), Senshi from Dungeon Meshi, Zelda from Legend of Zelda (WW), and Entrapta from She-Ra

Once you pick the one that matches what you want, it will be added to the card at the correct size and format along the card’s edges.

From there, you’ll fill out as many cards as you need and print!

Sheet of paper with printed cards coming out of the printer

Then you just need to cut them out…

Cards sheet being cut using a small craft slide cutter

And you’re all set!

cut cards face up on a wooden table
cut cards with two face up and two turned over to display the card backs on the table

For the example shown above, we made four characters since that’s what’s kiddo was most into trying that day (kiddo picked Link and Zelda, and I made Senshi and Entrapta), but there’s also cards for creatures and NPCs that have similar “click and add” capabilities. You can also, similiarly, use the “click and add” to the initiative tracker cards so all your images match everything else.

What we liked about TTRPG Cards Made Easy

There was quite a bit that we liked about TTRPG Cards Made Easy… first… it really was easy, like the name says. Clicking and selecting was something kiddo could do with minimal guidance, so they were able to make most of their cards without my help, which is really empowering for a kiddo (6yo). The first card took us maybe 4-5 minutes to make just because we needed to get used to the ideas here, and then after that, each following card was maybe 1-2 minutes with us just needing to click-click-click to add everything we wanted.

Link card showing several stats surrounding a character screenshot of Link from Legend of Zelda, Wind Waker

I also liked that there were color coding options and all white background options for the text. We tried out a few different colors for the tags, and it was nice getting to pick between the clarity of having a white background for text or the benefits of having color coding to help with quickly finding info (i.e. red background on the damage range helps to make that stand out a bit). It also lets you adjust to what will work best for the graphic you choose – on a black and white character drawing, like the example ones from the creator (which are included with the kit), the color banners REALLY pop!

Example cards from the creator showing how the banners look with black and white drawings and a different banner placement

Lastly, there’s great support for troubleshooting. The documents that come with the cards AND the extra videos that the creator has put on YouTube cover all the questions you may have, from how to fanagle with some of the software to printer troubleshooting if you end up with a misalignment on the cards (for the record, the card templates are lined up, so this is more like your printer’s calibration). The card backs have bleed area to account for some small misalignment in the printer even, which is nice. While the user’s printer is not in control of this tool’s creator, he still accounted for that variation to make it easier to use.

Where to find TTRPG Cards Made Easy

TTRPG Cards Made Easy is going to Kickstarter soon, so you can sign up there to get the full version and all tools when the project launches. In the meantime, there is a sample to try out on the DanDMadeEasy website here as well so you can get a feel for what you can do with the cards too!

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