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Originally Posted by Ginnel

"if you are too lazy to make your own" I think you missed that line because getting an index card and writing on it is hardly rocket science or even printing out some of the wonderful ones produced by members of this site.

but for £5 a pop probably £5.99 I might splash out on a set, its only the price of 2 pints after all.

Originally Posted by the Jester

Yeah... sucks that you can't play the game without them, or make your own, or find free ones if you want to.

Wow, so you can't have an opinion on whether something is worth the price or not... because you can "do it yourself"? This is the same justification I saw people use to defend WotC producing those terrible character sheets, and it's a cop out. I can make my own classes and powers... so does that mean if I am disappointed in how WotC designs the Martial Power book... I don't have a right to be since I could "do it myself"?

Personally I won't be buying them because there are already great cards on the internet for free... however if they meet the requirements below I may purchase them...if not, I do not think they are a particularly good deal.

Originally Posted by CharlesRyan

Exactly how many cards do you want for ten bucks? A typical PHB class has, what, 80? 90 powers? That's half again as many cards as in a typical CCG deck. For a price that's maybe 25% higher than a typical CCG starter deck.

If you're really going to play every class in the PHB, good on ya! But it seems kind of unreasonable to think that fully kitting out for such a broad undertaking wouldn't carry a price tag. $10 a deck is hardly a rip-off, assuming a halfway decent product, so $80 for 8 decks (600 to 700 cards!) doesn't really seem to merit your "disgust."

I will say you could be right... if we get some good artwork on these cards (and no I'm not talking about reprinted artwork)... and the official errata for all the powers I would say they may be worth it. But if it's just the exact layout of the powers from the books printed onto cardstock, with no errata... yeah I'd be pretty disappointed at $9.99 per class. It's not like there is rule design & development, playtesting or anything else involved with the cards...like there was with Inn-Fighting and Dragon Ante.


SIDE NOTE: I think this it's also a case of WotC really waiting too long to get these out there, though this again causes me to consider these as firmly targeted at new players, just like the character sheets.