D&D 5E D&D Spellbook Cards Preview

[GrumpyGamer]

I see the back of the box is hanging onto Gary Gygax's spelling of "Sorceror," which poisoned my own spelling for years.

I can't wait to play a sorceror that wears armour!

 

[Xodis]

I would love products like this...

However, with WoTC's inability to edit themselves out of a wet paper bag lately, and the massive amounts of errata that happened with 4e... There is no way I can see something like this being really useful until much later in the release cycle and the major bugs ironed out... Releasing this soon, there is a good chance than the majority of these cards could be invalidated within 3 months time...

Barring some complete rewrite of every spell in the game, GF9's customer service is top notch and I can see them hooking up customers with a free upgrade for something like that.

 

[sagechan]

Hopefully 5e will have less errata and etc, but seems like GF9 is likely to release these related to the source. So these first sets are based on PHB and class. Could easily see them do sets for additional published products that contain spells. Maybe 1 set for a release that has a handful of new spells for multiple classes and additional class based packets for products that release with enough spells to justify the product. (I know that sound horrid on cost, but I'm not against WotC and their partners making money)

 

[gyor]

I noticed the spell on the displayed Paladin Card is one I haven't seen in Basic or Alpha, Compelled Dual, these are from the PHB right?

 

[frankthedm]

If it's more than $10 per set of cards, to hell with it--I'll make my own damn spell cards!

You are not probably the target audience for these then. This is a prime example of a convenience product for those with more money than time.

 

[doctorhook]

You are not probably the target audience for these then. This is a prime example of a convenience product for those with more money than time.

It may surprise you how often that happens to me as a cheap bastard.

 

[IgnatiusJ.Reilly]

I want these. I will have these!

 

[Gundark]

My wife and I were talking last night and she said that back when we last played D&D (4 years ago) she liked having what her abilities were on cards (I made them with the magic card creator). This will be useful.

 

[Guyanthalas]

I'm very curious to see how these actually turn out...

I have a player that requested some power cards (She is brand new to D&D, and wanted to play a wizard). Cool, I fired up my Magic Set Editor and started plugging away.

Uh, there is a TON of text for some of these powers. "Contagion" as an example (~285 words, not including the stat block). More power to them if they get them to a useful state, but I'm a bit dubious. Right now my best thought is to summarize the power then say "See PHB 227 for additional information". They probably have far superior minds working on the task, but it certainly made me raise an eye brow.

Sorry to revive this, but I puzzled over it long enough to want to rant.

 

[weldon]

Has anyone seen these for sale yet? They were scheduled for release this month…