D&D 5E Where (and when) are you getting the Starter Set?

[thalmin]

On the subject of local stores not knowing about the early release dates, I'm not sure who is to blame. I found out because I attended WotC seminar at my distributor's Open House. (I will admit I checked for this specifically because D&D is my game of choice.) But I don't remember seeing any email announcements from either of my distributors, nor from WotC direct.

For WotC, on the monthly preorder form, the release date is buried on the item line for the Starter Set, along with SKU, Qty, Description (just game system, title, and carton quantity), Limit, MSRP, Cost, and Official Release. Along with about eight Magic releases with the same info. (WotC does not have any preorder info up yet for August or later.) In all a pretty dry spreadsheet listing.

For Alliance, they have a separate stock number for the early release vs the standard release date, so if when looking the item up you enter the standard stock code, you will only see the later release date.

ACD's online ordering does not even list release dates at all for anything.

Now my reps may not have contacted me about the early releases because I had contacted them immediately to place my orders, and I made sure they had me down for the early dates and not just the regular release dates. But it's almost like a store has to know about the early release to ask about the early release.

 

[the Jester]

...I can understand why you might be offended by their lack of follow-through.

I got really spoiled when I had an actual, honest-to-goodness FLGS.

 

[Ichneumon]

A handy FLGS near my workplace should have the Starter Set as soon as it ships (15th, I believe) so will be down there as soon as the word's out.

 

[billd91]

I preordered it via Amazon because of the discount - and I'm kind of glad I'm doing so because I really don't think I'll be getting the MSRP out of it. It'll be something to read through until the PH hits and then I doubt I'll do anything more with it. In fact, based on the previews I've seen here, I'm becoming more and more tempted to cancel my order and just wait until August 19.

 

[grimshwiz]

Got mine from Indigo today. Shipped Friday and came today. Awesomesauce in this box.

 

[Agamon]

Got mine from Indigo today. Shipped Friday and came today. Awesomesauce in this box.

I saw someone post on G+ that they were having it sent to them (was that you?) and tried to get it from them when I saw that, but could remember my email password for the site, and the site's messed up because it wants to let me change it, it but won't actually change it.

 

[grimshwiz]

I saw someone post on G+ that they were having it sent to them (was that you?) and tried to get it from them when I saw that, but could remember my email password for the site, and the site's messed up because it wants to let me change it, it but won't actually change it.

yes it was me.

 

[Mark CMG]

A Wizards Play Network FLGS, ftw, known as Games Plus in Mount Prospect, IL, from thalmin, who is an EN Worlder, and who has helped Games Plus more than earned the respect and patronage of gamers for over 30 years. The transparent exhibited in his post above and the numerous WotC catalog updates he has provided over the years on EN World, as well as hosting over a dozen years of EN World Chicago Gamedays (three a year) are just some of the online examples of what he brings to his way of doing business with a focus on the customer.