Tyranthraxus
Explorer
The fact of the Matter is it takes a plane what 14 hours to go from LA to Sydney? THe fact that we have to get it transported by Ship is ridiculous. I should be able to buy one in Perth by December 15th at the latest.
D&D 5E I have the DMG!
Phaezen
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Comes down to shipping costs, books are relatively heavy and airfreight would easily add 20 to 30% more to the cost
Queer Venger
Dungeon Master is my Daddy
My FLGS is a WPN store, so I am picking mine up next Friday 
Chocolategravy
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What is ridiculous is that you have to buy a dead tree and can't just get a far superior electronic copy.
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)
More, Much more. Try adding 150% to 200% to the shipping costs to do it by air rather than ship. We run into this often at my company, where we have to have something shipped fast by air from China or thereabouts to California instead of going on a ship like normal. Every time I have to do it I cringe because the jump in cost is so painful.
That said if there is someone really desperate to get this early I might be willing to buy them a copy at a local game store here in Los Angeles and ship it to them by DHL air. But they'd have to pay all my costs by paypal in advance. Just PM me.
1. Shields gave an AC and Reflex bonus, with proficiency. There' were no generic + shields like there was armor though.
2. Pre-3E, AC improvement was DESCENDING not ascending, so the lower, the better. Adding to your AC was not a bonus.
I haven't read the entire thread after this and I get the feeling this may have been discussed, but can you please tell me why you think this is so? Not being sarcastic, I an genuinely curious. How is an AC of 28 possible and for what characters?
From what I know, Bounded Accuracy was mainly for monster AC and lower attack roll numbers. This was mostly to ensure insane bonues were kept low simply for ease around the gaming table, so people would spend less time on minutae of the rules and more time on actual playing. The entire system was designed around and including this, so it is not like a level 1 group of pcs can smack around an ancient dragon and win. Thus far the system appears to be working well.
Another thing, if your AC of 28 can only occur with magic armor and magic shields and magic wondrous items and the like, this edition does not have have magic math figured in. Magic items are supposed to be bennies, rewards for something exceptional. If you hand out items like in prior editions, you have only yourself to blame if the game gets unbalanced.
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