Product Description

Official character sheets for the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons® Roleplaying Game.

Encased in a handy pocket folder, these official Dungeons & Dragons character sheets contain all the information players need to build, run, and track their 4th Edition D&D Roleplaying Game characters. Each character sheet is double-sided and designed for optimal playability. In addition, these character sheets are designed to support characters of all classes and levels.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47771 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-15
• Released on: 2008-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780786948536
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

32 pages? Hardly...
"Page Count: 32"

Let's examine those "32" pages, shall we?

A Sleeve: Separate full color front and back cover, all about marketing. Blank on the inside. But I guess that's 4 pages, right?

A Folder: Full color front and back cover art. The front art is is the same as on the sleeve, without the text. The back is part of the decorative 4E D&D glyph/mark, and lots of blue. The insides of the folder? A blank space with 7 lines on one side, and the 4E XP table on the other. I guess that's another 4 pages.

The Sheets: 4 two-sided character sheets... 2 portrait style (same as on the WOTC site), and 2 landscape style. Yes, **FOUR** Character Sheets, total. 8 pages.

The Cards: 8 two-sided sheets, lightly perforated, each with 8 cards split between Magic Items, Utility, Daily, Encounter and At-Will Powers. Blank, so you will have to fill in your own details based on your character. So I guess that's arguably another 16 pages.

And there you have it: 4 + 4 + 8 + 16 = 32 pages. Yes, you have to count the disposable cover and its completely blank flipside to get to a 32 page count.

At this rate, I'm surprised they didn't count each of the individual cards as a two-sided page, and jacked the total page count up to 144 pages. Heck, I could get a sharpie and write on the shrinkwrap, and that's another 2 pages right there!

Seriously, 4 two-sided character sheets and 8 two-sided sheets of cards... that's 24 pages and that's being generous, but probably playing by ISBN rules. It's pushing it to throw in each side of the folder as "a page". But it's beyond the pale to count a disposable sleeve that tells me to "Get More at D&D Insider" as another 4 pages.

WOTC, if you were my girlfriend, I'd dump you. And my wife would probably punch you. Then punch me for giving you money. Don't get me wrong, I love 4E. But I can't help but think that the product marketing guru at WOTC has a sign featuring a quote by PT Barnum hanging on their cubicle wall. Please, don't produce more rip-offs like this again, even at $10. It just hurts your reputation, and leads to reviews like this.

What The Devil
Ok. I do like, to some extent, the new 4th edition rules. Be that as it may, this suppliment is almost worthless. Yes I do like the Power Cards that you can write various powers on. HOWEVER. If I recall, in the past, Character Record Sheets suppliments would have a pretty decent amount of stuff for you. The first edition CRS has character generation information, along with key definitions of parts on the sheets, along with lists of spells (which, I guess, the Power Cards replace, but still, the original lists were far more specific instead of blank cards you write on). The second edition CRS suppliment also has character generation information, a fairly good amount of sheets (from character sheets forward). The third edition, I could be wrong, had both general character sheets and class specific character sheets (again, I think that is what it held, hadn't used 3rd edition for a while sooo). What do you get here? The product costs roughly 10 dollars. I would consider 65% of what you get with this product is the cost is the artwork. 20% of what you get with the product is the name D&D. 15% of what you get with the product is the actual "character sheets and power cards." That is to say...Yes, you do, as I said before, get blank Power Cards. But. Horrifyingly. You only get a few character sheets. Count them, 4 character sheets. Weee. Do not buy this product. It is this: Worthless. Photocopy the character sheet in the Player's Handbook.

WOTC has become the monster they had sought to slay
I have received these with a set of core books from ebay. Had I purchased these outright I would have been outraged! This is one of the sparsest offerings ever! barley enough sheets to start a game!

This is a perfect example of what happens to a company when it makes it big. In the day, WOTC touted themselves as a game company for the player and not the money, citing TSR as the uncontrolled in-passionate corporate entity as the downfall of all gaming as we know it. How the tables have turned! WOTC should be ashamed for offering this! Some folks will buy it simply because they don't know that it is available online at Wizards web site. I have taken the supplied PDF and created a tabloid format that folds in half to 8.5x11 with the inside blank for additional adventure info and they work great! Anybody can do this. you don't need these sheets!

Had they stuffed this with 50 playable sheets it would have been 5 star!

While they are still better than TSR ever was they should should not prey on the uninformed. It seems as if this was created as a cash cow and nothing more. Sad very, very sad!