$5 4E PHB @ GenCon!

[WalterKovacs]

I would LOVE a re-released and updated PHB.

Well the special/collector's edition did get the first wave of errata for them fixed up (like the stealth rules).

It also seems that major errata (again, like the stealth rules, or clarifying of keywords, etc) gets put into PHBx (or MMx or DMGx), which in the short term at least, is probably a better solution, since people are more likely to buy the new book, than the old book a second time.

 

[Mark]

Wizards of the Coast will be selling the 4th Edition Player’s Handbook for $5 with the purchase of any other D&D rulebook.

This seems a bit drastic. Are they just dumping old stock before a new version with errata is released?

 

[ggroy]

This seems a bit drastic. Are they just dumping old stock before a new version with errata is released?

If they had a 4.5E planned all along from the beginning, dumping old stock before it becomes totally unsellable is the best thing to do. Nobody wants to have old unsellable stuff clogging up the warehouses.

Wonder if something similar to this was done in the year before 3.5E was announced. Earliest announcement of 3.5E that I can find, is this article from January 2003.

Previews: See What's "In the Works"

 

[Jack99]

This seems a bit drastic. Are they just dumping old stock before a new version with errata is released?

I think they do it because they can.

Edit: and because PFrpg is released, of course.

 

[3catcircus]

This seems a bit drastic. Are they just dumping old stock before a new version with errata is released?

I think they do it because they can.

Edit: and because PFrpg is released, of course.

This feels to me like a desperate move on WotC's part. $5 PHBs with the purchase of any other 4e title? Seems to me like they were able to move a bunch of PHBs in the initial days of 4e's release but the sales of the rest of their products are in the toilet. That, and they probably ordered a huge print run of PHBs for sales that later failed to materialize after the initial hype died down.

 

[Jack99]

This feels to me like a desperate move on WotC's part. $5 PHBs with the purchase of any other 4e title? Seems to me like they were able to move a bunch of PHBs in the initial days of 4e's release but the sales of the rest of their products are in the toilet. That, and they probably ordered a huge print run of PHBs for sales that later failed to materialize after the initial hype died down.

You mean after the 1st, 2nd and 3rd print sold out? ><

 

[Remathilis]

Oooh! Conspiracy! $5 PHBs! WotC is planning something! Low print runs! 4.5!

How bout its a good way to take some of the air out of Pathfinder's roll out and get people into the RPGA games running at Gen Con?

 

[Aus_Snow]

It certainly does reek of desperation, but I'm not willing to speculate as to why. Apart from the obvious, I suppose. . .

 

[ggroy]

From an historical perspective, the 1E AD&D Player's Handbook went through 17 printings from 1978 to 1990. The 17th printing was in July 1990, which is a year after the 2E AD&D Player's Handbook was released.

Players Handbook

 

[ggroy]

Oooh! Conspiracy! $5 PHBs! WotC is planning something! Low print runs! 4.5!

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