Cards: the shared base
What a card is, the shared SRD library in your DNDCards instance, and how cards are invoked across the family.
A card is the family's unit of game content — a monster, a character, or an item. Cards carry the stats the apps read at the table (AC, attacks, abilities, rarity, CR), so the same card works in chat, in combat, and in the builder.
The shared library
The shared SRD library lives in your cards instance on DNDCards.com. It's the single source every app reads from, so a card you build or import once is usable everywhere in the family.
How cards are invoked
- /summon — call a card into play by name from chat.
- Autopilot name-lookup + mint — when the autopilot DM references a creature that isn't in your library yet, it looks it up and mints the card for you (ensureMonsterCard), so it's ready to reuse.
- Character → player-card — your characters become player-cards the other apps read.
- Combat — DNDWar.com and the chat combat reader pull AC and attacks straight from card stats, so fights resolve against the same numbers everywhere.
Where the cards come from
The PDF Shredder feeds this base: standard content and NPCs it extracts land as cards in your DNDCards instance, ready to reuse across the family. See Importing adventures for how that works.
You can also author your own — see Homebrew.