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[ShinHakkaider]

Conquest of Nerath Boardgame

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D&D Boardgame
Richard Baker, Mons Johnson, and Peter Lee

Wage war in the Dungeons & Dragons world.

War has come to the Dungeons & Dragons world! In the north, the undead legions of the Dark Empire of Karkoth march against the fragile League of Nerath, determined to sweep away the human kingdoms forever. To the south, the infernal Iron Circle launches its own goblin hordes in a campaign of conquest against the elves and corsairs of Vailin. From the snowy expanse of the Winterbole Forest to the sun-warmed coasts of ancient Vailin, four great powers struggle for survival.

Muster armies of footsoldiers, siege engines, monsters, and dragons to attack your enemies. Fight across the waves with fleets of warships and raging elementals. Plunder ancient dungeons with bands of mighty heroes, searching for magical artifacts and awesome treasures that might tip the scales of battle in your favor. The fate of empires is in your hands!

This game includes the following components:

► Rulebook
► Dice
► Game board
► 110 cards
► 252 plastic playing pieces representing the champions and armies of Nerath, Karkoth, the Iron Circle, and Vailin

Item Details
Item Code: 338060000
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Format: Non-traditional
Price: $79.99 C$92.99
ISBN: 978-0-7869-5849-8

Speaking as someone who is not a 4E fan but likes the boardgames? If this is anything like Castle Ravenloft?

WANT. THIS. NOW.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Just lovin the 20% VAT on box sets that don't apply to books.

Not havinh them sold by Amazon Japan is fun, too.

This one I will order from Amazon usa though.

I was hoping hte levels would be higher, level 6-10 is pretty saturated already./

 

[Treebore]

Speaking as someone who is not a 4E fan but likes the boardgames? If this is anything like Castle Ravenloft?

WANT. THIS. NOW.

Agreed. I finally found a WOTC game I can enjoy playing.

 

[Knightfall]

Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons

Shelly Mazzanoble

Who would have thought that the answers to life’s biggest questions can all be found in the greatest role-playing game of all time? Shelly Mazzanoble, that’s who! With her signature wit and down-to-earth writing style, Shelly heads down the self-help aisle, exploring universal issues surrounding careers, romance, spirituality, and many more, drawing hilarious yet surprisingly insightful lessons from D&D. For anyone who has ever contemplated a twenty-sided die, this book will make you laugh out loud—and leave you thinking about Dungeons & Dragons and gamer culture in a whole new way.

Item Details
Item Code: 306940000
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 192
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7869-5775-0

 

[Knightfall]

Untold Adventures

Alan Dean Foster, Mike Resnick, Kevin J. Anderson, John Shirley, Jay Lake, Sarah Zettel, R.A. Salvatore, and many more.

Fifteen critically acclaimed and best-selling authors gather to spin stories set in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons, tales filled with desperate dragons and cruel elves, honorable demons and fickle gods, wild magic and the sharpest of steel.

Step inside the imaginations of master storytellers Jay Lake (John W. Campbell award-winning author of Green), Alan Dean Foster (The New York Times best-selling author of the Spellsinger series), Kevin J. Anderson (international best-selling author of Star Wars and Dune novels), Mike Resnick (Hugo and Nebula award-winner for “Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”), John Shirley (Bram Stoker award recipient for Black Butterflies), Sarah Zettel (Philip K. Dick award winner for Bitter Angels), R.A. Salvatore (The New York Times best-selling author of the Legend of Drizzt series), and many more.

Experience Dungeons & Dragons alongside the most brilliant and beloved fantasy writers of our time, and discover a whole new dimension of fantasy adventure.

Item Details
Item Code: 332750000
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Price: $7.99 C$9.99
ISBN: 978-0-7869-5837-5

 

[Steel_Wind]

I especially like the part where the product is more expensive in Canada on the cover price.

Historically, this has been because the Candian dollar was only worth .78-.82 cents USD. That difference in the currency values established a convention in the minds of consumers for several decades and lead to that practice in the book trade (especially) as being acceptable and expected in the marketplace. The CDN cover price was habitually 20% higher than it was in US Dollars for 20 years+.

Problem is, now the CDN Dollar is actualy worth MORE than the US Dollar. But these greedy bastards still think that they can charge 20% more for the product in Canada.

News flash: You are antagonizing the HELL out of your Canadian customers with this crap. Screw you. We WON'T pay more.

 

[Nagol]

I especially like the part where the product is more expensive in Canada on the cover price.

Historically, this has been because the Candian dollar was only worth .78-.82 cents USD. That difference in the currency values established a convention in the minds of consumers for several decades and lead to that practice in the book trade (especially) as being acceptable and expected in the marketplace. The CDN cover price was habitually 20% higher than it was in US Dollars for 20 years+.

Problem is, now the CDN Dollar is actualy worth MORE than the US Dollar. But these greedy bastards still think that they can charge 20% more for the product in Canada.

News flash: You are antagonizing the HELL out of your Canadian customers with this crap. Screw you. We WON'T pay more.

Two things:

1) We Canadians will have to wait to see the current level of the dollar replace the recent historical level since manufacturers are not yet convinced the current level will 'stick'.

2) Once the manufacturer's capitulate, the cost is Canada is likely to remain somewhat (5-10%) higher since the distribution channels in Canada are less efficient (long strings along the southern border).

 

[BobROE]

News flash: You are antagonizing the HELL out of your Canadian customers with this crap. Screw you. We WON'T pay more.

You just have to find FLGS that offer them at US cover price (or much closer to). There's one in T.O. that seems to on Paizo products at least.

 

[Steel_Wind]

You just have to find FLGS that offer them at US cover price (or much closer to). There's one in T.O. that seems to on Paizo products at least.

Oh I know, 401 Games charges US cover price less 10%. I was making the observation generally, not specifically to me.

As for Americans not sure the exchange rate will "stick". Gimme a break. We've been hovering near a 93 cent plus dollar for 3 years+. This is about charging as much for your product as you think can get away with. That's reality when it comes to pricing at retail. It's about perception and consumer expectations, not any underlying reality.

The CDN dollar drops down in price 10 cents tomorrow? The price will skyrocket. The Cdn doallr goes up the same amount? The price won't budge very much. Greed is the most reliable (and predictable) of all human traits.

As for distribution costs being higher in Canada. Nonsense. There is virtually no shipping within Canada of consumer products on an East-West basis anymore. That ended in the late 1980s. Vritually all shipping is conducted on a North-South basis. It's in fact *cheaper* to ship on a commerical volume to the vast majority of the Canadian market than it is to ship to most of the American market. We're huddled all along the border in high population zones, concentrated principally in three regions. America is, in contrast, far more spread out and diversely populated.

Try shipping to Oklahoma, Texas, or South Carolina or Florida. It's usually far more expensive to do so, not less. This is especially so when the products' port of origin is L.A., San Fran or Vancouver.

Manufacturers and distributors and -- ultimately -- retailers, will charge whatever they think they can get away with. Happily, at least we now have Amazon.ca to keep more of them honest. Problem is, Amazon.ca's pricing off retail TENDS to base it off of the suggested Candain cover price. This can amount to a cash grab.

This is all a nice way of not saying what most of us know to be true: when it comes to exchange rates, manufacturers, retailers and distributors will all pick your pockets down to the lint if you let them. The rest is just sophistry.

 

[ProfessorCirno]

Not havinh them sold by Amazon Japan is fun, too.

This one I will order from Amazon usa though.

I was hoping hte levels would be higher, level 6-10 is pretty saturated already./

Look when you put Meikyu Kingdom and Alshard on Amazon USA we'll talk