Power Cards - Do you use them?

[Mercutio01]

I find I end up using my sheet for very little. If I had a card with defenses, hit points, surges and skill mods, I might not need a sheet at the table at all. I might have to try that. I've already shifted to an index card for treasure and XP, since I don't like transferring it to the CB.

PS

If you use Magic Set Editor, Black Plauge and I created our own power, character/monster, and item cards. The character/monster card is just a landscape style of regular sized power card.

An example.

To answer the thread, I do use cards - power cards, item cards, character cards - that BP and I designed way back during the "Make Your Own Power Cards" thread.

 

[Rel]

We use the ones from the character builder and find them quite handy.

Actual method of use varies among the players. Half the group cuts them out and uses them like actual cards. The other half keeps the uncut sheets in front of them and puts a poker chip over the expendable cards they have used in order to keep track.

 

[Storminator]

If you use Magic Set Editor, Black Plauge and I created our own power, character/monster, and item cards. The character/monster card is just a landscape style of regular sized power card.

An example.



To answer the thread, I do use cards - power cards, item cards, character cards - that BP and I designed way back during the "Make Your Own Power Cards" thread.

That's pretty cool. Can you post a link to that stuff?

PS

 

[Thanee]

Yep, we do use power cards, though before one of the players bought all the official ones, some just used their character sheet to keep track of used powers.

I simply use the fill-out ones from the official character sheet, since the official power cards do not have all cards you need (which is completely stupid, btw; why exactly do they make power cards and then only make them for class powers!? ).

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

If you use Magic Set Editor, Black Plauge and I created our own power, character/monster, and item cards. The character/monster card is just a landscape style of regular sized power card.

Nice.

I actually thought about something similar, too. Since with power cards you mostly don't need your character sheet anymore (only to look up a rarely used skill bonus or defense maybe, and to cross off healing surges, action points and such; though that can be handled by cards as well), I might make a power card sized mini character sheet (or two) with all the information that is required besides what is on the power cards already.

Bye
Thanee

 

[karlindel]

In two of the three groups I play in everyone uses the character builder and associated printed out power cards (although not everyone cuts the power cards out). In the third group, one players uses the character builder, one player uses a third party program to handle powers that makes power cards, and three players use handwritten index cards for their powers. When I am playing, I always use the character builder, cut the power cards out, and organize them by at-will, encounter, and daily powers.

I think a better definition of what is meant by power cards would help. If you use the printout from the character builder, but don't cut them out, are they still power cards?

 

[avin]

Using the ones from CB, no scissors involved.

 

[MrMyth]

I'd said yes, but that is only partially true. I tend to use Power Cards if I have time to organize them and print them out - if not, I just have a list of my powers on a page, just like a spell page for a character sheet in 3rd Edition.

 

[Obryn]

Both.

In the game I'm running, my players love their power cards, and I have free access to a color laser printer, so I'm happy to provide them.

For the game I'm playing in, I don't like using power cards. While I use the character builder for advancement and management, I wrote up a Power Sheet in Word which I'm currently using instead. I don't like flipping through cards, when I can just check a box instead. I'm a grognard that way - I've been using sheets for over 25 years, and don't see a need to change. (All the other players love their power cards, though, so I guess I'm a minority.)

I've attached what I'm using for my Half-Orc Spiked Chain Tempest Fighter in case anyone would like to check it out... It's hardly professional-grade, but it works, considering I threw it together during some down-time.

-O

 

[amysrevenge]

Answering the poll: I (and everyone I game with) use the CB cards (a very small number of folks use the purchased cards, or hand-filled blank cards).

Personally I'm in the minority, as I use trading card sheets rather than CCG individual sleeves. Functionally it is similar to sliding the pages uncut into page protectors, except that I can rearrange the cards to an order I prefer.


[Marginally OT]

There is actually quite a bit you can do to customize the CB output if you play around with it.

I think there actually is one. There is a feature that allows you to add item cards for non-magic items or something like that, and that also creates ritual power cards.

The option you're talking about is Options -> Show Normal Item Cards

Unfortunately, the Ritual cards only show the description, not the casting time or component cost - you have to pencil those in by hand.

I just wish the ritual list on the character sheet would not cut off after a Fifth or so of my 20th level Warlocks ritual list

This is another one you can play around with. If you select Options -> Unlock Panels then you can drag the Rituals/Alchemy panel around, resize it, drag it to a blank page, and even get rid of other panels you don't use to make room. You're only really in trouble, I think, if your list ends up longer than one entire top-to-bottom column on an otherwise blank page.