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"Quartermaster Campaign Items" offers very fine illustrations of 21 objects that characters might encounter in any fantasy game. You can actually preview all of the artwork on the product page, so that you can see for yourself before you buy how good the artwork is and the range of items represented. The first version of this product was almost unusable, as each item card had to be printed on a separate page. However, the publisher responded very quickly to complaints, and added nine-up pages to the product almost immediately, raising the usability level tremendously. The quality of the artwork and the publisher's responsiveness definitely rate five stars each.
However, I find the price too high when compared with similar products. As of this writing, "Quartermaster Campaign Items" was priced at $5.99, with a sale price of $4.99 shown on the product page. That's for 21 item cards which you must print yourself, presumably using a consumer-grade inkjet printer and the type of card stock you can buy at a typical department store. Thus, your actual cost is a little higher than just buying the PDF, when you factor in ink and paper. The resulting cards will also be less vivid than cards printed on a printing press. $5.99, or even $4.99, for 21 item cards that you must print and cut yourself, with typical inkjet-output results, compares unfavorably to $9.95 for 54 press-printed cards in a typical Paizo GameMastery item card deck. Thus, my final rating of three stars really speaks to the price-to-value ratio of the product relative to similar products, rather than to the quality of the artwork measured in more abstract terms.
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