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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Folks should realize these are a class board per level, per subclass. That’s why they have 3 per class, level 1 &2 on one, lvl3 light or life (in case of the cleric) on the other. I’d totally be up for another 16 boards, to get 1-3 for all classes. Just for teaching beginners or for one shots. This is likely gonna go into the afterschool program pack they ship out to schools and libraries.

This is also the format the stranger things set is being released in, i think. Which makes sense because they see the show as something to onboard new players into the hobby, so combining this format with outside properties is great. And if you’re experienced, nothing is stopping you from using everything except the class boards from the set (maps, adventure booklet, character cards, hand outs). Maybe the boards also cover different classes, builds, so could be useful if you like using them.
I think the Stranger Thinfs set has 80s retro style character sheets with oregens on them.
 

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