Roll out your favorite owlbear rug and get the fire started, because the 2023 holiday season is underway! Celebrate alongside us with over 20 days of gifts and special offers in this D&D advent calendar. You can open the first door of the calendar on December 1st. Then, come back each day to discover new treasures!
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I've just reviewed the 4 "gifts" now, from a Non-US point of view:
Day 1: Although the discount is now (apparently) "available outside of the US", shipping is NOT available outside the US, which still makes this US ONLY!
Day 2: The Planescape DM Vault is actually $195 (€223.95) - only the Encounter Cards are $30 (€34.95), making the graphic misleading at best. Shipping is an extra €13.28, and no mention of VAT, so I'd expect an additional ~20% on top, plus a HEFTY "Brokerage Charge" for import duties if VAT isn't included in the price (which I doubt it is). The $10 discount wouldn't even cover the import / brokerage fees!
Day 3: The Cosplay / LARP gear does actually look decent enough - you can tell from the images that love and care goes into their products - but I'd imagine anyone who is actually into Cosplaying and LARP would be much better off making their own outfit or finding bits piecemeal in thrift shops. Even at 25% off this doesn't seem that exciting / enticing to me, so I didn't even check to see how much shipping would be.
Day 4: The Treasure Pack is €19.95, and that gets knocked down to a decent €15.96 - but then you get to shipping and WOW!! €21.95 - €25.95 Shipping PLUS €7.20 - €9.64 Taxes! Even after the 20% Discount, the €19.95 that they charge for a set of dice and a single metal coin comes to a whopping €45.11 - €51.55! (Germany on the lower end, Ireland on the upper end)
So, Day 1 is a complete bust, even after "fixing" it. Day 2 could be hit with hidden import fees, and is misleading at best (since it says "was $30, now $20" but is CLEARLY putting the DM Vault as the focus). Day 3 actually seems like it's the best offer so far, but would only apply to a very small niche / subset of people. Day 4 will end up costing Non-US folk about 2.25x - 2.5x the price, due to extremely high shipping.
Seems like another year of what will amount to MOSTLY some very, VERY disappointing "gifts" (I'm sure there will be one or two GOOD gifts in here).
Hopefully next year they finally take the feedback onboard and make the gifts focused on DNDBeyond - a new set of digital dice, a couple of maps, backgrounds and portraits for the character sheets, a monster compendium, traps and puzzles to use in-game, or a few new spells and magic items...
From the D&D coffee support
"Thank you for reaching out to us. We appreciate your interest in our products. However, we regret to inform you that we have temporarily suspended shipping to the UK at this time. Currently, we are only able to ship within the United States. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Please rest assured that we are actively working on reopening shipping to the UK very soon. We value your support and hope to have the opportunity to serve you in the UK again soon."
So why are they saying offer available outside of US here when D&D Coffee are saying they only ship to US
for the first day of christmas dnd gave to me 25% coffee for the second day dnd gave to me encounters $10 off (bruh wut) for the third doy of christmas dnd gave to me some larp gear that i'm never gonna use for the fourth day dnd gave to me some stocking stuffers
dang, before this comments section i had no idea the rest of the world is so really into mail order coffee. i'm sure it's great *sips tea* but, speaking for everyone in the US, we'd happily let you have it for a few additional papercraft owlbears or an oragami fortune-teller of many things.
nothing for people outside of the US...
We know :'''(((
Because despite what it says under the picture, it's still not available outside of the US. Sometimes WotC mislead their customers, you don't have to believe everything they say.
Yeah! I saw last year's free monsters, and that was great! More free monsters, or races! Something interesting, that can help with gameplay! Not coffee...
Hope they’re good this year. The claimable items are usually great! The discounts, not so much.
This is going pretty *well*.
YES! I love the dice.
Has anyone noticed the little flashing rainbow wizard in the corner of the webpage (top right)?
No impressed with these offers at all! The coffee one explicitly notes that it is available outside of the US but if I try to order it, I can only enter an address within the US so clearly it's not available. And as for the dice pack - a good offer and a good price but then it costs more than the original price to ship it to the UK!!
I imagine these are decent offers if you're in the US, but terrible if you live anywhere else.
This!! ^^^^ So much this!
I don't get it. It's 20 dollar coffee with a small discount. Its just coffee everyone sells coffee. Heck, Youtubers sell coffee now. I just want a character sheet background or a new theme color. Hahaha
Just sell the coffee out of the US from now on I guess. We don't want it. Take it!
Ong a new character sheet or background would be sick.
YAAAASSSS
me.
You can click to disable it.
Bruh everybody overreacting! You can buy the coffee anywhere just don’t expect it to ever arrive if your not in the US.
Claimables? There was one that I can remember. The rest was money grabs.