GM's Apprentice Decks

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From April 2023, idea-generating cards for tabletop roleplaying games

GM's Apprentice Decks

Hundreds of digital cards for fantasy, sf, horror, and steampunk stories

Starter Collection - US$7.95

360 printable cards with prompts
and suggestions for fantasy
and historical roleplaying
and creative writing

Bonus Collection

600 expansion cards
with ideas for science fiction,
horror, weird horror, steampunk,
and demon-hunting adventures

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Game Masters Apprentice Base Deck diagramAdventurer! We've resurrected our April 2023 GameMaster's Apprentice Deck Bundle with printable .PDFs of the GameMaster's Apprentice line of idea-generator cards by Nathan Rockwood at Larcenous Designs. For tabletop roleplaying GMs, solo gamers, or writers – for any creator seeking inspiration – the thousands of snippets in these digital GameMaster's Apprentice decks suggest story seeds, encounters, characters, and randomizers at the flip of a card.

Gamemasters Apprentice Fantasy deckFor just US$7.95 you get all three print-and-cut card decks in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $30) as DRM-free .PDFs, including (new in this revival) the complete GameMaster's Apprentice Base Deck Second Edition, along with two genre decks: Fantasy and Age of Sail. As a convenience to our customers, we also include Nathan Rockwood's pay-what-you-want ALONe Solo Game Engine.

Note: This revival's Apprentice Base Deck Second Edition (2025) replaces the first edition in the original run. If you bought that April 2023 offer, you also receive the new 2E Base Deck automatically on your Wizard's Cabinet download page on the Bundle site and in your linked DriveThruRPG Library. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later – even much later.

Gamemasters Apprentice Weird Horror deckAnd if you pay more than the threshold price of US$18.12, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with five expansion decks worth an additional $50, including Sci Fi, Horror, Weird Horror, Demon Hunters, and Steampunk.

Learn more about our offers at our official blog, Beyond the Bundle, and at the r/bundleofholding subreddit.

Starter Collection

Pay the minimum price to get these titles:

GameMaster's Apprentice Base Deck 2E

The 2025 enhanced version of the story idea toolkit
  • Designer: Nathan Rockwood
  • Larcenous Designs, 120 cards
  • Retail price

GMA Fantasy and Age of Sail Decks

Solo roleplaying in magical and maritime quests
  • Designer: Nathan Rockwood
  • Larcenous Designs, 182 cards
  • Retail price US$20

Bonus Collection

Beat the threshold price to LEVEL UP and ALSO get this entire collection of BONUS titles:

5 GM Apprentice theme decks

SciFi - Horror - Weird Horror - Steampunk - Demon Hunters
  • Designer: Nathan Rockwood
  • Larcenous Designs, 398 cards
  • Retail price US$50

US$70 of creative inspiration....

...But you pay just US$7.95 for this revived April 2023 offer's Starter Collection of three complete print-and-cut decks, including the GameMaster's Apprentice Base Deck, the Fantasy Deck, and the Age of Sail Deck, plus the pay-what-you-want ALONe Solo Game Engine. And if you pay more than the current threshold price (US$18.12), you'll level up and also receive all five decks in our Bonus Collection, including theme decks for science fiction, horror, weird horror, and steampunk, plus cards that support the Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors RPG (not included in this bundle), which was co-designed by GameMaster's Apprentice creator Nathan Rockwood.

This revival's Apprentice Base Deck Second Edition (2025) replaces the first edition in the original run. If you bought that April 2023 offer, you also receive the new 2E Base Deck automatically on your Wizard's Cabinet download page on the Bundle site and in your linked DriveThruRPG Library. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later – even much later.

Bundle of Holding titles are always absolutely free of DRM, so you can move and copy them freely among all your devices.

Deck of Many Sales

Here's what others have paid for our bundle

Number of bundles sold
70
Total contributed
US$1,326.38
Threshold (level-up) price
US$18.12

To keep the starting threshold price from rising too quickly, we calculated it based on 400 fake sales at US$17.95 each.

CARD MASTERS: Our most generous customers

  • Dextrous: IWKYM - US$26
  • Theatrical: Cardini - US$23
  • Roomiest sleeves: Ricky Jay - US$23

Other card sharps:

  • Juan Tamariz
  • Bill Malone
  • Shin Lim
  • Bill Roberts
  • Dani Daortiz
  • Lennart Greene
  • Hector Mancha

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