The “gameplay all-in” includes almost 30 extra dice, $100 worth of resin kits with like four new cards you’ll never see, and a couple of packs of plastic versions of previous resin kits with the assembled cards from those. You at most want the Core Gameplay All-in, which is just the three campaign acts and some sidequest type stuff, which is what’s relevant. Don’t get me wrong, I originally got the prior equivalent thereof because I figured I wanted to be all in. Well, I’ve been playing it (on TTS, I’ve never even opened my copy, the TTS mod is just so nice) and it turns out the handful of cards in the resin kits could barely be more irrelevant and you’re just paying $30 for a fancy mini. Meh.
That is, they generally include an adventurer card (you don’t use these in the campaign, you’re always playing with a fixed cast that’s already in the box) sometimes with an ability or something that’s unique to that character, and like, one or two item cards that are extremely situational and probably not any better than what you’re already using in the game. The new ones might have a few things of slightly more utility but they’re also not in the plastic collected sets, they’re the original resin which, meh.
And I get it, $200 for that base box seems extremely expensive but just to point out, there’s an enormous amount of game in there. We’ve gotten probably a couple dozen sessions in on this sucker and we’re just picking up steam on the second chapter of five. We haven’t seen entire tiers of loot or monsters (in fact we’ve barely seen any of our current tier’s monsters). We’ve only opened a few of the dozens of hidden envelopes. Etc. Honestly, if I could guarantee any of this will be available again I’d say you could safely just get Act One and round out your collection later if you get that far. The whole thing is gonna be ridiculous.
