D&D 5E D&D 2022 Overview - Did you purchase any of the books?
John R Davis
Hero
I bought 3.
I have used/using them all.
I will sell 1 after use.
I have used/using them all.
I will sell 1 after use.
Did not buy any of them, as I am still in middle of my Theros campaign and I do not tend to buy the setting or adventure books unless I'm intending to run a game there. So my next purchase if I go with another adventure book would probably be Witchlight, but even that's a 2021 book.
Already have both Volo's and Tome so I didn't need MoM, and only just got around to picking up Candlekeep Mysteries this year, so I'll probably grab Citadel in like '23 or '24.
Already have both Volo's and Tome so I didn't need MoM, and only just got around to picking up Candlekeep Mysteries this year, so I'll probably grab Citadel in like '23 or '24.
It's kinda embarrassing for me to be a gaming fan who runs 5e at least twice a week and to be completely uninterested in a year's worth of official products. I purchased none of them.
Monsters of the Multiverse - already had them. Didn't really use them even when I first got them anyway.
Call of the Netherdeep - checked it out from the library, so I got to look at it closely. It's ... not my style. (Passive, feel good D&D.)
Dragonlance - will consider it later, but haven't traditionally liked the "follow the novels" style of DL.
Radiant Citadel - flipped through it. Doesn't seem like anything I could use. Mostly a bunch of tiny settings that I'd have to develop on my own.
Spelljammer - thought it was a joke setting in 2E. The reviews are bad. Skip.
Starter Set - don't need it.
Monsters of the Multiverse - already had them. Didn't really use them even when I first got them anyway.
Call of the Netherdeep - checked it out from the library, so I got to look at it closely. It's ... not my style. (Passive, feel good D&D.)
Dragonlance - will consider it later, but haven't traditionally liked the "follow the novels" style of DL.
Radiant Citadel - flipped through it. Doesn't seem like anything I could use. Mostly a bunch of tiny settings that I'd have to develop on my own.
Spelljammer - thought it was a joke setting in 2E. The reviews are bad. Skip.
Starter Set - don't need it.
Voadam
Legend
I am still making my way through Tasha's every now and then for a thorough cover to cover read. I have about 7 hardcovers after that to get to that have only been briefly skimmed.
Monsters of the Multiverse might be next, or maybe one of the 5e setting books I have, I will decide after I finish Tasha's.
Of course if my group had chosen Icewind Dale out of the options I offered when we started our latest campaign (they chose a 5e conversion of Iron Gods) I would have shifted my reading schedule.
Steel_Wind
Legend
It wasn't an option, but it's worth mentioning...
I purchased D&D Beyond versions of the PHB, DMG, MM, Tasha's, Xanathar's, Fizbans Treasury of Dragons as well as Icewind Dale: RotFM, Dragon Heist and Candlekeep Mysteries.
All of that was in addition to DDB version of DragonLance: SotDQ (noted above in the poll).
I did so after Paizo continued to shill for their licensee Owlcat, the developer of Wrath of the Righteous PC Game (a Russian based dev team, owned by a corporation in Cyprus -- the most corrupt banking system in the Western World) the week after Russia invaded the Ukraine and the West imposed various sanctions.
All of that, in turn, lead me to embrace 5e for use in Foundry VTT -- and purchases of DDB version of books I already had but had never really used (for the most part, Fizban and DL excepted).
My point: there can be a lot of activity in purchasing 5e material which escapes notice. It's not all just "new players" and churn at work.
I purchased D&D Beyond versions of the PHB, DMG, MM, Tasha's, Xanathar's, Fizbans Treasury of Dragons as well as Icewind Dale: RotFM, Dragon Heist and Candlekeep Mysteries.
All of that was in addition to DDB version of DragonLance: SotDQ (noted above in the poll).
I did so after Paizo continued to shill for their licensee Owlcat, the developer of Wrath of the Righteous PC Game (a Russian based dev team, owned by a corporation in Cyprus -- the most corrupt banking system in the Western World) the week after Russia invaded the Ukraine and the West imposed various sanctions.
I was not okay with money continuing to flow to a Russian company. I was even LESS okay when Tonya Woldridge deleted my complaint about it on the Paizo Message Boards. Being opposed to the invasion of the Ukraine by Russia -- and saying so -- was "politics" you see. And so she deleted my complaint.
That turned me from a Paizo superfan to stopping 2 of my Paizo campaigns at the time (Abomination Vaults and PF2 version of RotRL) and another player stopping his Agents of Edgewatch campaign. I also stopped development of my animations and sounds package for PF2 for Foundry. (No, I didn't release it and won't).
That turned me from a Paizo superfan to stopping 2 of my Paizo campaigns at the time (Abomination Vaults and PF2 version of RotRL) and another player stopping his Agents of Edgewatch campaign. I also stopped development of my animations and sounds package for PF2 for Foundry. (No, I didn't release it and won't).
All of that, in turn, lead me to embrace 5e for use in Foundry VTT -- and purchases of DDB version of books I already had but had never really used (for the most part, Fizban and DL excepted).
My point: there can be a lot of activity in purchasing 5e material which escapes notice. It's not all just "new players" and churn at work.
Greg Benage
Legend
I had pre-ordered both Radiant Citadel and Spelljammer. I won't be doing that anymore. I'm actually running a Spelljammer campaign right now and I still feel like I wasted my money.
DragonBelow
Adventurer
I had pre-ordered both Radiant Citadel and Spelljammer. I won't be doing that anymore. I'm actually running a Spelljammer campaign right now and I still feel like I wasted my money.
How so? are you using the adventure?
Also, are you Greg Benage of Midnight fame?
