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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6625300" data-attributes="member: 22424">Yep. I'm sure the AL stuff is nice and all, but right now it might as well not exist in my world - I have no access to those materials nor any way to (legally) gain that access.I would. Other than the obligatory &quot;Starter Set&quot; (which needs a box as it needs to include things like character sheets and dice), I'm pretty sure the days of boxed sets (from WotC) are essentially done. They have significant production costs that aren't faced by hardbacks, and thus they give you less material for the price point. Unless there's something in there that forces them to use the format (such as multiple poster maps) they're better going with the hardback book format.(And, on a personal level, I'm not too disappointed by this - in the UK books are exempted from both import duty and VAT (currently at 20%). As soon as a boxed set includes dice, cards, or some other components it gets classed as a game, and suffers both. So the format suffers doubly for us.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6625300, member: 22424"] Yep. I'm sure the AL stuff is nice and all, but right now it might as well not exist in my world - I have no access to those materials nor any way to (legally) gain that access. I would. Other than the obligatory "Starter Set" (which needs a box as it needs to include things like character sheets and dice), I'm pretty sure the days of boxed sets (from WotC) are essentially done. They have significant production costs that aren't faced by hardbacks, and thus they give you less material for the price point. Unless there's something in there that forces them to use the format (such as multiple poster maps) they're better going with the hardback book format. (And, on a personal level, I'm not too disappointed by this - in the UK books are exempted from both import duty and VAT (currently at 20%). As soon as a boxed set includes dice, cards, or some other components it gets classed as a game, and suffers both. So the format suffers doubly for us.) [/QUOTE]

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