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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6346219" data-attributes="member: 3400">How is the basis of comparison flawed? They're both beginner/starter sets? Wouldn't people in the market assume they're reasonably equivalent based on their titles?I'd say that elements of the product are directly compared in a reasonable fashion. This isn't a hack job aimed at D&amp;D 5e or the Starter Set. Where the Starter Set is judged to fall short, cogent reasons are presented. Where there are hitches with the Beginner Box, cogent reasons are presented.And in a later post, he does mention the price difference of £7. Is that a small amount? Depends on how you look at it. In US terms, that's a shade under $12. That might not seem a small amount but I don't know how £7 feels to a Briton. Does it feel smaller in single-digit terms than in double-digit terms? I might consider $7 a reasonably small amount (particularly given the difference in product between the two) but then I'm familiar enough with the exchange rate to know the difference between $7 and £7. That and since the 1990s, every time I've gone to the UK I've felt the sticker shock (especially so in 2007 when the exchange rate was so bad) so I'm a bit more gunshy on this than other people might be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 6346219, member: 3400"] How is the basis of comparison flawed? They're both beginner/starter sets? Wouldn't people in the market assume they're reasonably equivalent based on their titles? I'd say that elements of the product are directly compared in a reasonable fashion. This isn't a hack job aimed at D&D 5e or the Starter Set. Where the Starter Set is judged to fall short, cogent reasons are presented. Where there are hitches with the Beginner Box, cogent reasons are presented. And in a later post, he does mention the price difference of £7. Is that a small amount? Depends on how you look at it. In US terms, that's a shade under $12. That might not [b]seem[/b] a small amount but I don't know how £7 feels to a Briton. Does it feel smaller in single-digit terms than in double-digit terms? I might consider $7 a reasonably small amount (particularly given the difference in product between the two) but then I'm familiar enough with the exchange rate to know the difference between $7 and £7. That and since the 1990s, every time I've gone to the UK I've felt the sticker shock (especially so in 2007 when the exchange rate was so bad) so I'm a bit more gunshy on this than other people might be. [/QUOTE]

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