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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9762430" data-attributes="member: 11760">The cardboard standees seem doomed to get pretty beat up. Having branded miniatures available for each of the hero choices as an add-on would be nice.Similarly, the dice aren't great. Chessex makes much better dice at a very reasonable price. I know WotC was trying to squeeze costs down to meet the $50 MSRP (and I know there's a bit of psychological resistance to going above that number), but those seem like an obvious thing to upgrade. At the very least, I would have approached Chessex and put in a coupon for a better polyhedral set in the box.As anyone who's used any of the other 5E starter kits knows, the booklets in this book are destined to rip, tear and bend over time. Even a simple heavier cardstock for the covers would be a big upgrade.Likewise, the character cards are on wimpier paper than I'd like. I might be getting mine laminated so they stand up better over time.The four baggies are meant to keep all the character tokens together between games (I think everyone whipping out their phones and taking a picture of their character boards probably would work better). But I'd like to have baggies for all the different tokens. I'm going to be picking up "snack size" sandwich baggies for that purpose, myself.Finally, replacing those tokens with fancier ones (it could be something as simple as cheap items from a party store or craft store, or as fancy as getting gold coins from Campaign Coins) is a quick way to make the whole set feel more deluxe.Maybe I'm just describing a $100 version of this set from Beadle's & Grimm's. I'm a little surprised and disappointed that they didn't offer a deluxe set, taking it up to the high-end board game level.</blockquote>

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