D&D 5E Even if you like D&D Next, are you buying it, and how soon?

[Kobold Stew]

I will buy the core three books (or whatever the equivalent format will be), right away. I am unlikely to buy anything after that (based on the way things appear to be heading).

 

[Obryn]

Who on earth said anything about $120 for the core rulebooks?

Nobody, but with current market for a 300+ page glossy hardcover, $40 is about the standard price. 3 books, x $40...

Core will probably be cheaper, though, potentially as a loss leader, and likely in a box set.

-O

 

[EYEforanEYE]

Nobody, but with current market for a 300+ page glossy hardcover, $40 is about the standard price. 3 books, x $40...

Core will probably be cheaper, though, potentially as a loss leader, and likely in a box set.

-O

Who said it will be three books?

 

[Obryn]

Who said it will be three books?

3 is the minimum for Core + Standard + Advanced. On the assumption that "core" will literally be one book and necessary for the game.

It may in fact be more - Standard PHB, Advanced DMG, Monster Manuals, etc. Thinking about it, I'm almost certain it'd have to be more, because I don't see this edition starting without a full monster book with all the monster stuff they've been pushing on the site.

The book breakdown is all guesswork now, as is the price, but I think it's fair to say we're in for at least 3 books for Advanced.

-O

 

[EYEforanEYE]

3 is the minimum for Core + Standard + Advanced. On the assumption that "core" will literally be one book and necessary for the game.

It may in fact be more - Standard PHB, Advanced DMG, Monster Manuals, etc. Thinking about it, I'm almost certain it'd have to be more, because I don't see this edition starting without a full monster book with all the monster stuff they've been pushing on the site.

The book breakdown is all guesswork now, as is the price, but I think it's fair to say we're in for at least 3 books for Advanced.

-O

Ok, if you say so. I guess we shall when it is released...

 

[dd.stevenson]

Soon as it comes out on PDF. I ain't got any room for physical books in my life right now.

 

[Mishihari Lord]

I always buy the core set of each D&D edition when it comes out. I'm too busy to actually play at the moment, but I'll at least read the core.

 

[FireLance]

I want to like 5e and I want to be excited about getting my hands on the new books, but with the exception of a handful of interesting and innovative mechanics (expertise dice, hit dice, the sorcerer mechanic of gaining constant bonuses as daily abilities are expended) which can be easily ported into a 4e game, almost everything else about 5e from its design philosophies (bounded accuracy, short combats, balancing over the adventuring day) to its mechanics (advantage/disadvantage, apparently haphazard approach to class design) seems to me to be a regression.

I might pick up 5e if I can work up the enthusiasm.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I am not 100% sure i will buy it, but I probably will. When, I do not know. I need to see mroe aboutthe game first.

 

[Pentoth]

I don't think I will be buying it unless it is absolutely spectacular. Nothing against it I just I will have to like it more than Warhammer 2 ed and Pathfinder which for me that's not likely.