I have a giant box of dice and I loan them out to my players, especially new players. At the end of the campaign, I let players keep the set they used as a memento :)
If I only owned four sets, I'd have run out a long time ago.
I haven't "ended" it - I just ran out of new comics. I'll still make more, it'll just be a slow update schedule. (Lemmy is actually ahead of my webcomic right now, the most recent one I posted is going to hit my site on Monday.)
While I do normally build up a moodboard of references for drawing these, Swordfighter Peach didn't register on it this time. It's similar looking because both are somewhat rooted in military/riding fashion for upper class folks in western Europe.
One time we "got ambushed" by Batiri in Chult, but the ambush was foiled by Konsi calling out "oh hello there!" in goblin, and the Batiri ran away, and the rest of the party just thought she was going insane.
5e's balance point puts a massive premium on AC - it's very expensive to improve AC.