Player’s Handbook - Rogue Power Cards: A 4th Edition D&D Accessory
Player’s Handbook - Rogue Power Cards: A 4th Edition D&D Accessory
Speed up your game with official D&D® power cards.
Players using Player’s Handbook(R) Power Cards don’t need to crack open a rulebook every time they cast a spell–all the crucial information is right in front of their eyes.
Each and every class power appearing in the Player’s Handbook has its own card. Simply select the cards for your character’s powers and you’re ready to play!
This deck of 100 cards includes all the powers from Player’s Handbook for the rogue, plus a few blank cards for players to use for other powers.
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars Bare Bones, No Frills Combat Cards
Tiny little font, thick statblock entries, no art at all–definitely not the kind of combat cards I was hoping for a year ago. They’ll probably be handy in keeping track of what powers my characters have and if I’ve used them or not, but they certainly aren’t very pretty and don’t do much to spark the imagination. Definitely not something you couldn’t do better yourself with a Magic card set editor.
The frustrating thing is this product is made by Wizards of the Coast, the inventors of Magic: The Gathering. They should know how to make appealing game cards, make them intuitive to use at a glance, and able to put out some beautiful art to illustrate the different powers–maybe not brand new art specifically for the cards, but something would have been nice.
But that said, the cards themselves are what they need to be. They list the game information as you find it in the Player’s Handbook so you can make a poker-style hand of the cards your character has at their disposal and discard each one after you use it. That’s handy. The cards themselves are standard playing card size and construction, plastic-coated light cardstock with the D&D logo on one side, color coded by type of power (gray for daily, dark blue for utility, etc.) and on the other side are the power descriptions in tiny eight to ten point font in standard statblock format.
If that’s all you need, then they should work out for you–but if you were hoping for something a little more elaborate, you may be disappointed.
3 Stars Power Cards
I found that the overaul quality of the cards was very good. They should have put the headers on top of the action insead of the bottom however.
The biggest complaint I have is that it is very hard to find something that you can write on the blank cards with. I tried a pen but it kept clogging with the wax coating of the card. A pencil just indented the wax, this makes using the blank cards useless in my book, but the preprinted ones are great.
3 Stars good, not great
While I love the idea of power cards to be available at the table for quick-reference, these cards are not as useful or as good-looking as ones I created myself and have been using since 4th ed came out. If you have the time, make your own.
Filed under: Dungeons And Dragons 4th Edition
