Geek Native was given a copy of The Dungeonmeister RPG Sticker Book to review, and it was a surprise flashback to when I used stickers more heavily. When was that? Back in the days of paper.
Mind you. I still use stickers today for utility. For example, I top up my clothes detergent and softeners in reusable bottles at my local zero waste store, and to avoid mixing the bottles up, they have different stickers on. I was given a water bottle with a corporate logo on, I needed the bottle but the logo is now covered with stickers.
I’ll share some other users for TTRPG-themed stickers in a bit, but I should first talk about The Dungeonmeister RPG Sticker Book. It’s illustrated by Kristin Ousley, and I love their style. There are words in the book that play second fiddle to the art, and these are from Dungeonmeister series regulars Jel Aldrich and Jon Taylor.
It’s easy to peel the stickers off from the light cardboard pages of the book and not a single one of them has torn on me. However, I wouldn’t call these transferable and even covering a map or character sheet with a plastic sleave won’t ensure you can redeploy the sticker.
What types of stickers do you get?
You get a mix and some are modern, but they’re in the minority. For the most part you get stickers of fantasy characters and some monsters.
My favourites are those smaller stickers for items of equipment, the sort of decoration you’d see on the edge of maps or inventory markers. My least favourite is the Heraldry collection.
There are plenty of dice, weapons and the occasional arcane symbol. Some of the illustrations have text captions and those are hit or miss but but perhaps that’s more down to my imagined use case of the sticker and whether the caption fits.
There are over 500 and that’s loads. You can get stickers from the Geek Native web store, please do, and they cost about £1.30 each. That means buying 500 from us would cost about £700. This sticker book costs about £12. Although, in Redbubble’s defense, there are bulk discounts for sticker buyers.
RPG sticker uses
I did say how I’d get into how I’ve used stickers in the past so here goes. The important bit is that all these uses apply to The Dungeonmeister RPG Sticker Book as well.
I’ve attached small ones to poker chips and used them as monsters on maps and initiative trackers. While playing multi-session hex crawls I’ve had them mark special locations discovered on the map and in other games used to quickly attach portraits to NPC character sheets. I’ve also used the decorate GM screens, effectively making a custom screen for the campaign.
As a player, I’ve also used them on character sheets and to help annotate campaign logs, although, yes, I admit I mainly use Notion for that.
I use stickers to geekily personalise everyday items from water bottles to folders.
I’ll concede that the Dungonmeister’s stickers aren’t transferable, so I wouldn’t use them for spells, status effects or health.
Overall
The Dungeonmeister RPG Sticker Book is excellent value and high quality. I found many uses for the stickers while testing for the review and still have most of the book left.
There will, however, also be stickers in here that you might not ever find a use for and if you’re one of those people who prefer to keep things pristine rather than customised then a sticker book might be barking up the wrong tree for you.
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Disclaimer: My copy of the book was given to me for free to review.
