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<blockquote data-quote="Uta-napishti" data-source="post: 9608995" data-attributes="member: 7026422">Some thoughts on (what we know about) the new starter set:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cards: Putting together characters from cards is brilliant.&nbsp; It seems like a way to really speed things up as it avoids copying things onto a character sheet and avoids pages of character options in a rulebook. The cards that make up your character sheet ARE THE LIST of character options, just pick one.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Art: I wonder what art will be included to portray the character.&nbsp; Will there be representative art on the the species card or the class card, or as a separate stack of portraits to pick from? The biggest missed opportunity with past WotC pregens has been the lack of evocative art that could show a new player at a glance what a given character is like. If players are making their own characters, rather than picking from a few pregens, providing art is even more difficult. For a full sized PHB, you can't have a card with art for every possible combination of male/female gender, class and species (12x10x2 = 240 ) BUT for a starter set with limited species and classes, it just might work ( 4x4x2 = 32).&nbsp; I will be keen to see which way they go tackling this problem.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Board Game-ish: Great choice to have maps, tokens etc and make getting into being a GM or roleplayer as much like learning a nice board game as possible.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Price: HOWEVER, All the different printed material makes me scared this will be expensive and the starter set will be outside of impulse-buy territory for the first time in 5E.&nbsp; </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Translations: The multitude of different cards, formats etc, also makes me scared it will be offered in only english, or with quite a delay in other languages.</li>
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[QUOTE="Uta-napishti, post: 9608995, member: 7026422"] Some thoughts on (what we know about) the new starter set: [LIST] [*][B]Cards[/B]: Putting together characters from cards is brilliant. It seems like a way to really speed things up as it avoids copying things onto a character sheet and avoids pages of character options in a rulebook. The cards that make up your character sheet ARE THE LIST of character options, just pick one. [*][B]Art[/B]: I wonder what art will be included to portray the character. Will there be representative art on the the species card or the class card, or as a separate stack of portraits to pick from? The biggest missed opportunity with past WotC pregens has been the lack of evocative art that could show a new player at a glance what a given character is like. If players are making their own characters, rather than picking from a few pregens, providing art is even more difficult. For a full sized PHB, you can't have a card with art for every possible combination of male/female gender, class and species (12x10x2 = 240 ) BUT for a starter set with limited species and classes, it just might work ( 4x4x2 = 32). I will be keen to see which way they go tackling this problem. [*][B]Board Game-ish:[/B] Great choice to have maps, tokens etc and make getting into being a GM or roleplayer as much like learning a nice board game as possible. [*][B]Price[/B]: HOWEVER, All the different printed material makes me scared this will be expensive and the starter set will be outside of impulse-buy territory for the first time in 5E. [*][B]Translations:[/B] The multitude of different cards, formats etc, also makes me scared it will be offered in only english, or with quite a delay in other languages. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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