Grey Paladin Studios
Card & dice game · In development

Monstrum Magnum

A card and dice game of the Realm of Iceborne for 1 to 6 players. Gear up at Loqi’s Tavern, fight your way through a deck of monsters, and face the beast waiting at the bottom. It follows the PC game, played by the same rules.

How it plays See the PC game
The Realm of Iceborne

A brutal land that feeds on the weak

Bandits hold the roads, Gorblicks raid the foothills, and older things stir in the barrows and the bone-strewn depths. Every adventure gets harder, and so do you, one piece of looted gear at a time.

Monstrum Magnum is meant to be challenging. Sometimes you lose to a choice you made, sometimes to the dice.

“You control your decisions, but the dice control your fate!”
Card art: a Minor Frost Drake breathing ice in a moonlit forest
1–6Players
3Ways to play
d2–d20Six kinds of dice
4Tiers of gear
How it plays

One deck, one adventure

Each adventure is a Monstrum Magnum deck: encounters and random events shuffled together, with a foe worthy of tale and song at the bottom.

  1. Gear upSpend your coins at Loqi’s Tavern on armor, weapons and potions.
  2. DrawTurn over the next card. It may be a pack of wolves, a trap, or an avalanche.
  3. FightRoll for initiative, roll a d20 to hit, and roll your weapon’s dice for damage.
  4. Face the beastReach the bottom of the deck and take on the Monstrum Magnum itself.
  5. Loot and returnClaim the treasure, head back to the tavern, sell, upgrade the shop, and go again.
The encounters

What waits on the road

Card art: Gorblick Wolf Riders charging through snow
Gorblick Wolf Riders
Card art: Skeletons of Frost
Skeletons of Frost
Card art: a coiled Fire Python
Fire Python
Card art: Grymfang's Champion raising a spiked club
Grymfang’s Champion
Card art: Korla the Minor Lich
Korla the Minor Lich
Card art: a Minor Frost Drake
Minor Frost Drake

No classes. Your gear decides.

Every hero starts with a basic player card. Armor and weapons have slots for Mod cards: extra damage, fire and ice, poison, healing, and stranger things. Mods are never sold in the shop; you loot them or trade for them.

Four tiers of loot

BasicObscureRelicEldritch

From rusty swords to gear forged for the last fights of the campaign.

Ways to play

Alone, together, or for keeps

Single Player

A solo campaign. Fall anywhere along the way and you are raised at the Temple of Cold Flame to pick up where you left off.

Co-Op

You and up to five others take on the denizens of Iceborne together. If the group falls, the group is raised together.

Progenitor Mode

Not for the faint of heart. One hero, the whole campaign. If your hero dies, you start again from the beginning.

Status

In development, after the PC game

The card and dice game follows the PC release and is played by the same rules. The rulebook, the cards and the artwork are all still changing.

If you would like to follow along or help playtest, we would be glad to hear from you.

Get in touch about Monstrum Magnum
DraftRulebook
PaintedEncounter art
PlayablePC prototype
To comePrinted cards
Contact

Get in touch

Questions about our games, playtesting, or press? We would like to hear from you.

hello@greypaladinstudios.com