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"Waste Not: With 10 minutes work you can scavenge valuable cuts from the corpse of a beast, dragon, monstrosity, or plant that has a CR of 1 or higher and has died within the last hour. If sold to a collector, druid, or other naturalist, this notable component is worth an amount of gold equal...

It's definitely a situational thing. My player's haven't taken advantage of it because we're all so used to hoarding things with limited uses. So Many Potions....

Current conversion rate is approx $1.22 US per pound so appro $13.55 per book. If you get the 3 base books and the adventure separately that comes out to approx $54.20 assuming no change in the exchange rate.

Is there an expected timeframe for preorders to have been shipped?

fair. Although there is a big difference between ineffective and less effective. Sometimes the fun is finding a way to make someone who is less effective more effective through unusual methods.

Same. The characters I remember are the favorable ones, not the "strongest" ones. I understand why someone may want to make a character with as few weaknesses as possible, but I prefer mine to be realistically heroic and maybe have to look for other ways to shore up their "weaknesses".

Agreed. Also it took me a long time to break out of the rut ingrained by previous editions that you "HAVE" to have the best stat to be useful.

"Social Expertise - You gain an expertise die on checks made with one of the following skills: Insight, Persuasion, or Sleight of Hand." Yeah this is a very plain option. You pick a skill listed and get an expertise die on it. As @Anselm said expertise die do stack and the thought behind this...

I've noticed that A5E is more forgiving of less than maxed ability scores

It's hit or miss for me. Unfortunately with no good FLGS I'm stuck with them for the most part

I second this. The ability of the adept to pick and choose focus features makes it way easier to build a character that's both fun to play and viable.

I've used the LU in a 5E adventure and they work fine. Some (shadows, I'm looking at you) are actually less powerful than the O5E version.

It's always a trade off with either buying feats or getting an ASI. Some of the multiclass feats (Nightstalker, Untamed, and Vigilante) do give a +1 to a stat. You can also get ASIs through other means (like strongholds)

I got really burned on the Neal Stephenson KS for his game Clang (Neal Stephenson Sheathes Crowdfunded Swordfighting Game for Good) which really bummed me out. There were a few others that I donated a small amount to as a "holder" because I didn't trust the creator.

Yes it does (which is a big selling point for me).

Personally I found it better to use a converted adventure that my players were familiar with (after reading the books) and had already run through as an intro for my player so they could see how A5E changes affect the game.

No problem. Yeah it's not a super big buff. More a "s'cool combo factor"

By using the NIghtstalker feat on page 389. Second bullet point says "You may deal Sneak Attack damage when making attacks using unarmed strikes or adept weapons." Since the adept focus feature "Adept Weaponry" says the chosen weapons count as adept weapons for you they would qualify for sneak...

I pointed out to some of my players that with the correct feat/ability choices you can totally make a str Adept/Rogue that gets sneak attack with a greatsword so this doesn't surprise me too much.