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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5403792" data-attributes="member: 2067">I'm not seeing a lot of awesome in early 2011, personally.I am something of an extremist when it comes to a complete rejection of "random booster packs" in my D&D games (and in a lot of other places). I'm not buying anything with the words "booster" or "randomized" on it, ever again (and "collectible" is on notice). I wish they didn't exist, but whatever, I'm not really going to begrudge those who want to give in to the Gotta Catch 'Em All compulsive consumer mindset their precious little cardboard cocaine. For now, they can do their thing without hurting me, so it's cool.The Heroes books look pretty neat, but they're kind of standard "wait for it to bump to the DDI" stuff for me. I'm hesitant about M2E. I'm a fan of rarities as a concept, but so far, WotC has given me no reason to lust for Rares other than "well, they're rare." If you're using a Wishlist anyway, you'll get what you ask for, and if you're not, then something you can't use isn't going to benefit you any more just because it's really super-rare. It's sort of a deeper problem with the 4e system here, that magic items are a player resource rather than a sort of shared toy between the players and the DM. If this is just a book filled with bland magic items, it'll be in the "Wait for the DDI kick" section. It could be more, though, in which case....cool. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The Shadowfell boxed set has definite potential, but I'm not sold by "It's a boxed set about the shadowfell!!!!" It'll take more info to persuade me. I like city-focused products, I don't have anything against Gloomwrought, it's probably not just a DDI kick, and toys are fun to have (but uuuuuuugh if they include those collectible cards!). All it has to do is convince me that it's going to be kind of awesome. Which shouldn't be hard, but man, I dunno, they've been effing that chicken pretty hard recently. The product I'm most looking forward to is a functional DDI, though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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