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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5438282" data-attributes="member: 90804">I played in a Living Forgotten Realms game at my friendly local game store this morning, and they had gotten a sample of the cards. One of the employees who is a big D&D person (and a friend of mine) was really excited about them. He had heard that my initial reaction to the first two preview cards was "meh" and he told me that I was totally wrong - they're AWESOME.He had a stack of about 50 of the cards that he was passing around for players to flip through (with duplicates, of course). I looked at them. It was uncanny how much they felt like Magic cards (the packaging is very similar, too). I know that's the point, but it still felt a little weird to me.After looking through the cards, my reaction is... "meh". A lot of them are situational, and the boosts they give are minor (not insignificant, mind you). I didn't get to actually PLAY with the cards, but they didn't excite me. Ironically, they gave out a few packs at the end of the game - one to the DM, and two more that the DM was supposed to give to the people he felt role-played the best. The DM (wisely, in my opinion) handed out those other two packs randomly. I happened to receive one. I haven't opened it. I'm really just not that interested.Overall, I still think I plan to ignore them. What will be annoying is playing LFR when everyone else is using these cards. I know they won't be required, but they'll be allowed. It feels like one more thing that  could slow combat down further, and the players who have them will have an advantage (though not a huge one, I think) over the players who don't. That makes me sad.</blockquote>

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