Corebooks in June!: News from the Alliance Retailer Summit

Whizbang Dustyboots · Oct 15, 2007

Any word on the arcane book and what it'll include?

teitan · Oct 15, 2007

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
Any word on the arcane book and what it'll include?

Nothing like that on the list

Gundark · Oct 15, 2007

It would be nice to get some comformation on this....I think it's smart to release all in one month. But then again I have the income to buy them.

Whizbang Dustyboots · Oct 15, 2007

teitan said:
Nothing like that on the list

Hmm, the Israeli translator said there was, along with a book on dragons and a book on martial characters.

How long a period did the Diamond summit cover?

Fobok · Oct 16, 2007

Hopefully we'll see some confirmation, or denial, of this from Wizards. (I'm kind of hoping denial. I can only afford one book a month in any case, and I don't want to have to wait 2 months longer than the rest of the community to see them.)

Sara_G · Oct 16, 2007

Cheers Teitan! Glad you had fun!

It is confirmed. Due to customer feedback, we made the decision to release all three core rulebooks in June. Keep on the Shadowfell releases in May. And the Special Edition Core Rulebooks release in October.

Paraxis · Oct 16, 2007

Thanks for the confirmation Sara, and welcome to the boards. This is one of the best forums ever, I have been lurking since Eric was posting scoops about 3E before it hit the shelves.

Keep coming around more Wizards people the better I say.

Ohh, and could you confirm if they will wait till they have atleast some errata done before making the special edition books, I would love to get leather bound copies of the core rules but don't want to spend the extra money if it still has the all the errors that will be in a first run of a book.

SPECTRE666 · Oct 16, 2007

Sara_G said:
Cheers Teitan! Glad you had fun!

It is confirmed. Due to customer feedback, we made the decision to release all three core rulebooks in June. Keep on the Shadowfell releases in May. And the Special Edition Core Rulebooks release in October.

So when will WotC formally announce the change? This week sometime? I all ready posted a question and this thread at the One and only Ask a Realms designer/author#3. So I am waiting for Richard Bakers reply.

Whizbang Dustyboots · Oct 16, 2007

Sara_G said:
Cheers Teitan! Glad you had fun!

It is confirmed. Due to customer feedback, we made the decision to release all three core rulebooks in June. Keep on the Shadowfell releases in May. And the Special Edition Core Rulebooks release in October.

Interesting. I'm sorry to see Keep on the Shadowfell pushed back a month, but this is otherwise good news.

Glyfair · Oct 16, 2007

Jack99 said:
June would suit me perfectly, since I am starting 7 weeks of vacation on July 1st. I however will remain very sceptical until I see it on the Gleeeemax

I know my gaming stores will hate it. They'll have to buy three books in large amounts all at once. While they will make it up in sales, the initial outlay is a huge undertaking. Any other companies better avoid putting anything out that week (or even month), because many stores won't be able to afford to carry more than a token copy (if that).