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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanlis" data-source="post: 5130558" data-attributes="member: 6011">Third guy is just grinding his axe. None of my local big box bookstores had PHB3 as early as my FLGS. You couldn't get PHB3 online from either Amazon or B&N before the official release date. You could get it from local game stores a couple of weeks early, because any game store that participates in organized play events gets to break street date now. He may have a local B&N that's breaking street date, and it's true that WotC can't do much about that (they're not about to pull their books from the mass market), but what WotC can do is give local game stores a way to match or beat the B&N violations.Also:Ha ha ha. OK, so here's the reward for getting 10 Reknown:Benefit: Re-roll a Saving Throw against an effect 1/session.Since each session is one encounter, that is indeed an encounter power. Not a game-breaking one. So OK; how long does it take to get 10 Reknown?So the single biggest reward is for using the Character Builder. This is free, since we're talking level 1 characters here. The second biggest reward is for completing an encounter; you'll get that the first session. There's 8 points right there. If you did have the PHB3 in hand, you could hit 10 and get the reward card immediately. If not, you'll have to wait one more session to get the card. Horrors.But what about the other rewards? Well, there are only two of them, at 30 points and 50 points, and they'll only be given out at the end of the season. So basically having the PHB3 gives you one extra session with a fairly minor power.Since it's a 12 session season, anyone can reasonably easily get to 30 points -- it's 36 points from attendance alone. Go to the trouble of using the character builder, and you can get to 41 points. There are three chapters, and two milestones per chapter, so there's another 12 points. 53 points easily attainable without the PHB3. Note that the max you're getting from using PHB3 stuff is 3 points. Yeah, that's huge.Oh, and you can't use more than one reward per session, and you have to pick the reward card you're using before the session starts.</blockquote>

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