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I got a similar e-mail and cancelled my order. I don't mind it being a bit late, but I already have a campaing starting on July 5th . I am most unimpressed at them telling me now it's going to be late when it has been on pre-order for months.

Let see: 4th ed, £40. Counter collection, £15. Printable card, £3.... Hours of play for 4-6 people? Many. No, I just don't buy it. Sure, you can spend a lot of money on it, but you really don't have to.

Aye, there's a fair number of variations on that possibility though not all so bland. The sheet reckons there's some on 9, but it's wrong.

Given the spread of points added as you level up, I think the total number of stat points is relevant too. On that front, both 14 14 13 13 13 11 and 15 13 13 13 13 11 give 78 stat points, the former giving a pretty decent +7 total start. The worst stat arrays give just 72 points.

I write computer games for a living. Everything I produce gets pirated. Data from various game releases shows that an early, or pre-release, pirate will reduce first month sales by 5-20%. Now, D&D is likely to suffer less due to the superiority of the print product but I'd still expect them to...

*shrug* Amazon has a delivery date of 12th-18th June for me (free delivery). Last thing I ordered from Leisure Games didn't turn up for 4 months, and they didn't answer the e-mails I sent them.

Indeed. But my point was about power inflation, vs. an Orc (or 2, as pointed out) was not supposed to be a challenging fight. As it turn out that wasn't how a lot of people ended up playing and thus it didn't work out (although, IME, it worked fairly well when you did play by the book's format).

I trust you've done the decent thing and contacted WotC with the details of these sites?

But that was what was supposed to happen. A 3e 'balanced encounter' uses up 20% of your resources, it isn't challenging. The idea being you get 4 encounters in a day and, taken as a whole, they're challenging.

I don't have the books, but - as I understand - that's fine because you're still quite close to the party level.

To put some numbers to that, a standard level 2 gives 125xp reward, and has attacks, defences and hps suitable for facing level 2 characters. A level 10 minion also gives 125xp reward but hits 2nd level characters with the greatest of ease, and its defences avoid most of their attacks but a...

Compare a minion to a solo. A minion provides 1/20th the XP of a Solo, but that doesn't make a minion of XP equal to the solo a reasonable encounter. The numbers are way off. The levels indicate an approximate level the characters should be to face that monster (give or take 3, IIRC), while XP...

IANAL, but I was under the impression that applied only to contracts with individuals, not contracts between businesses?

Buy.com definetely did it. Others may also have done; at least one bulgarian FLGS is, er, more friendly. The torrents (or at least some of them) were apparently taken from print masters rather than being scans. I.e. they were leaked either by someone at WotC or someone at the printers or one...

That would be my guess, are you (or anyone else) familiar with the normal contractual basis for release dates like these? What kind of penalty might be expected?

I buy from the people who give the best overall experience. That means online. Cheap, easy to browse, excellent range of stock and they deliver right to the door.

Indeed it is; so the question is: what was on the contract?

Wait? The badget minion isn't in the MM? I'm cancelling my pre-order.

Are they now? Here's hoping someone loses their job for that.

I really wish they'd go just point-for-point.