D&D General Take A Look At The Class Boards From The New D&D Starter Set

Check out the cleric's 'dashboard'.
Heroes of the Borderlands, which is Dungeons & Dragons' upcoming new starter set, is one of the largest starter sets the game has ever produced--not least in part to the card-based character creation pops. One essential part of that card-based process is the class board--as D&D Beyond puts it, "a dashboard that clearly lays out everything you need to play, from your Armor Class to your spells and features, with card slots and token trackers that keep the game moving fast".

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There's a board for each class in the boxed set (the example above is the cleric). In the bottom left you can see a 'What You Need To Play' section which lists the additional cards you need to play a cleric--in this case, two equipment cards, 7 spell cards, and a bunch of gold pieces.

The card itself includes your basic stats--ability scores, saving throws, skills, hit points, speed, and so on. There are also clearly marked spots where you can place cards for your armor, your spells, and other things. There's also a space over on the far right for species and origin cards.

Once you reach level 2, you flip the card cover. That automatically increases your hit points and other features.

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Finally, at level 3, you choose your subclass and you swap your class board for a more specialised one. The included cleric includes boards for the Life and Light domains. The new board not only updates your stats (like when you leveleled up to level 2) it also adds in the subclass features.

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Heroes of the Borderlands comes out September 16th for $49.99.
 

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4e would've cleaned the naughty word up if it was branded "Dungeons and Dragons: Tactics" or "The Dungeons and Dragons Miniature Combat Game" and they kept 3.5e as a reduced product line.
No it wouldn’t have, because it wasn’t a miniature combat game. It leaned more into tactical minis combat than prior editions, but it was still fundamentally a roleplaying game with a tactical minis minigame attached to it.
 

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Looks great. No problem with ditching the ability scores. I'm used to that with Fantasy AGE.

There is an opportunity here to keep publishing expansion boxes for higher levels and new adventures. There is a market for that and it's not the same as people who buy 1000 pages to play D&D.

So simple, this is a Shadowdark killer! :p:eek::ROFLMAO: [JOKE!!!!]
 


Really? In 2025 we’re still saying this? Wow…
I'm reminded of how one of the comments from last month's D&D Beyond article on this starter set accused it of being too much like 4E.

"What's in the box is still, without a doubt, Dungeons & Dragons, but it's approached from a fresh angle"... or to put it another way, a 4e box set...

[sighs] 4e. Happy, happy days (are here again)!

D&D 5.4th edition goes from strength to strength!
 





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