Making your own power cards

HeinorNY · Apr 23, 2008

Hmmmm

"Be sure to return Friday for a look at power cards!"

Belorin · Apr 23, 2008

ainatan said:
Hmmmm

"Be sure to return Friday for a look at power cards!"

Hmmmm, indeed.

Bel

Trolls · Apr 23, 2008

A third hmmm....

It might just be the ones in this article:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dusg/20080227a

In other news, I'll clean up the template I'm using an add a bit of a tutorial for getting the look right, then I'll upload it so we can make a good effort at getting all the cards done.

Before that, though, we need a symbol for free actions!

quindia · Apr 23, 2008

Some of my friends who attended the DDXP told me a couple of the DM's mentioned the Player Character Sheets were going to come with power cards. Reading the description from the product, I see no mention of this so I dismissed this as speculation.

You have to figure that WotC will produce these at some point. They are already set up to make cards. Personally I'd rather see them produced as a PDF so we can print them ourselves, along with blanks to add our own.

I may just make my own or maybe I'll use the ones being developed here

!

ArturusX · Apr 23, 2008

Trolls said:
Before that, though, we need a symbol for free actions!

Howzabout a more intuitive/simple idea for all of the action icons?

Let's presume there are 5 action types: Standard, Move, Minor, Immediate, and Free in decreasing order of time necessary to perform the action. All that differs is the time necessary to perform the action, so what better way to denote them than with a clock!

Standard: "Stopwatch" icon with the face completely dark.
Move: "Stopwatch" icon with all but the upper-left quadrant of the face dark.
Minor: "Stopwatch" icon with only the right side of the face dark.
Immediate: "Stopwatch" icon with only the upper-right quadrant dark.
Free: "Stopwatch" icon with nothing dark.

Alternatively, you could just use a circle with pie pieces filled in if a stopwatch icon looks tacky or you're having difficulty finding one. I think this is far more intuitive and more immediately identifies how long the action you're doing takes. Not to detract from the excellent icons already presented for the various action types of course.

Whaddaya think?

- Art

drjones · Apr 23, 2008

quindia said:
Some of my friends who attended the DDXP told me a couple of the DM's mentioned the Player Character Sheets were going to come with power cards. Reading the description from the product, I see no mention of this so I dismissed this as speculation.

You have to figure that WotC will produce these at some point. They are already set up to make cards. Personally I'd rather see them produced as a PDF so we can print them ourselves, along with blanks to add our own.

I may just make my own or maybe I'll use the ones being developed here !

The wotc site lists power cards as being part of the Friday preview. Doesn't mean yours are not better of course.

lutherreed · Apr 23, 2008

Oh that's easy. The circle is blank.. no action required. It's Free

HeinorNY · Apr 23, 2008

Here are the power cards, I think...

Belorin · Apr 23, 2008

Well, at least there's plenty of room for the ones like Ghost Sound with lots of wordage.

Bel

Alkiera · Apr 23, 2008

ainatan said:
Here are the power cards, I think...

Those would get a great big 'meh' from me. If WotC is doing them, I want something like the WoW TCG ability cards. Heck, I'd think it'd make more sense to use WoW TCG cards as a template rather than magic cards. If the WotC power cards aren't attractive (glossy, permanent, colorful, nice art, etc0, they will not be bought.

If a class from 1-30 has ~80 powers, I'd consider paying $20-25 for a deck of high-quality cards with all the powers for the class. Or maybe sell them in tiers, 20-30 cards for $10. Might have to put paragon/epic powers in collections to get enough cards to be worth distributing. Fixed packs, by class, means people can pick them up as a game aid, like dice. If they are in any way random/'collectable' they will be useless for the RPG.