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#1 SarisonZero Oct 24, 2014 10:51:31	Hello all,   I just bought my copy of Rise of Tiamat.  Talking to the retailer, he showed me the other copies that were shipped to him, they all had a strange damaged section, near the top of the binding on the first page.  Out of 5 copies, 4 had the first 2 or 3 pages glued improperly at the top, causing them to tear.  The 5th, (my copy) had some surface damage to the top back corner, near the spine.  Is anyone else noticing this?  Did this retailer just get bad luck with this shipment?   Thanks for the info.
#2 Cyber-Dave Oct 24, 2014 11:23:58	SarisonZero wrote:
#3 Azzy1974 Oct 24, 2014 12:59:49	Yeah, with all the complaints about the physical quality of the books, I hope that WotC is looking into a different printer. I'm rather fortunate that, thus far, I haven't had any problems, but this lack of quality control on the printer's part is causing me to fret over each book I buy. That's not good news for WotC if more than just me feels this way. Hopefully this is something they can get under control, because I'm loving the edition and the books I have so far.
#4 Grazel Oct 25, 2014 5:35:47	I had no problems with mine. The only issue I've had with any of the books so far was a roller smear on two pages of the MM (didn't impact art but makes a few lines of text on each column of the two pages harder but not impossible to read).   It definitely seems to be on a run-by-run basis from all the reports I've seen and not an entire set of a book. Whie I've seen quite a few reported overall compared to total sales it's been a very small section of the print runs (extrapolating for those not reporting it still only looks like 1-2% of the print runs). The issue is more that it seems to be a print run issue (same issue on a large section of books all going to 1+ retailer) rather than the more typical per-book issues.   Types of errors reported: - Misbinding cauisng tearing - Poor glue causing pages to fall out - Duplicate pages (so far without any missing ones reported, just a thicker book because of repeat pages) - Ink smearing (like I got) - Page darkness (possible heating issue while ink still drying) causing pages to have that blackened look like heat-reactive receipts can get when heated up or exposed to sunlight   These are all indicative of an issue with the printer and not WotC. The bigger concern I have with WotC is the editing failures (bad math, missing/renamed spells) that is under their control and also impacts actual gameplay and everyone who gets the books not just those with a bad physical copy.
#5 joeburgos Oct 25, 2014 10:09:18	Azzy1974 wrote: