D&D 5E Rise of Tiamat hardcover goes for big money

[FitzTheRuke]

Does anyone know if Volo's and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes are also now out of print, since they've been de-listed on DNDBeyond?

I think they are never printing them again but many copies of the last run are still available from distributors. I know I still have them in my store.

 

[darjr]

There isn’t a buy button in Amazon for Mordenkainen’s so I think Amazon is out if them. And it’s 70 of D&D books which also implies it’s out of print.

 

[Parmandur]

The hardcover adventures being made legal for use in Adventurer's League play has probably helped keep a higher interest in the earlier releases than normally would have happened.

Adventures League play is fairly fringe, to be fair, compared to the number of people playing the game and buying books.

 

[Weiley31]

I'm glad I got an un-errated Mord's Tome of Foes prior or the year before last year. Hoping to get an un-errated version of Volo's Guide to Monsters at some point. I have a partially errated Xanathar's Guide as the Spirit Die for the Ancestral Guardian barbarian subclass is fixed, but I have a pre-nerfed Healing Spirit in the spell list.

 

[Magus Darkwind]

You think that's bad? The only alt cover book I don't own is Volo's Guide to Monsters, and it's, at minimum, 350 bucks on eBay. I've seen copies as high as 900 bucks on there. It's wild.

It's crazy that Rise of Tiamat's regular edition is that expensive, though. I'm regetting gifting it to a friend after I picked up the Tyranny of Dragons book.

Now I'm curious how much the Tyranny of Dragons compilation book is running for these days...

 

[Burnside]

Now I'm curious how much the Tyranny of Dragons compilation book it running...

$200.

On the other hand, you can still get Horde of the Dragon Queen for the MSRP.

 

[Magus Darkwind]

$200.

On the other hand, you can still get Horde of the Dragon Queen for the MSRP.

Thanks for checking for me! At least I know these books are appreciating in value.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I'm glad I got an un-errated Mord's Tome of Foes prior or the year before last year. Hoping to get an un-errated version of Volo's Guide to Monsters at some point.

I have already dumped mine now that they are obsolete and do not line up with the new versions of the rules going forward.

 

[darjr]

If you want one get horde while you can. I’ve heard that sellers are waiting till it goes out of distribution so they can sell them together.

Might happen sooner if it goes out sooner and maybe the price goes down? Maybe. Kinda doubt it.

But the price of horde will go up.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

If you want one get horde while you can. I’ve heard that sellers are waiting till it goes out of distribution so they can sell them together.

Might happen sooner if it goes out sooner and maybe the price goes down? Maybe. Kinda doubt it.

But the price of horde will go up.

I don't see it gaining huge value, because I don't think these high priced books are actually selling for those prices very often, and it is a mediocre campaign mostly interesting as a curiosity of what happens when an outside studio designs a campaign for an unfinished game.

That said, I bought a copy of Horde of the Dragon Queen yesterday on Amazon for ≈$18, and I recommend anyone interested in owning it in hardcopy do the same because once the existing print run is gone the days of it being cheap are unlikely to ever come again. It is unlikely to see a reprint.