Anyone not getting the 3.5 books? (at least right away)

[Dr_Rictus]

Given the extent of just the changes I know about, it's more than I have time to re-learn right now. I'd have to derail my campaign for several sessions just to do so, which I have no interest in doing. And I have enough 3.0 material to finish out the campaign.

Very likely get them at some point to keep up with the 3.5 games I run across, but it'd be pointless until my leisure time increases a bit.

 

[Teflon Billy]

I like most of the rules changes (Haste in particular)...but that "Weapom Handedness" thing is just a clunky ruination of a previously beautiful mechanic.

 

[reapersaurus]

My group isn't going to be buying the books.

But that's because we play D&D so infrequently that it would frankly be a waste of money.

WotC certainly is (IMO) marketing to a less-than-majority % of the market with 3.5E :

• The customer has to play D&D often enough to bother.
• They have to like 3.5E enuff to poney up cash for very small # of changed pages/content.
• They have to be interested in playing up-to-date D&D (excluding the niche that never upgraded to 3E).
• They have to look past the many online complaints about 3.5, and well-known experts (Monte, etc) nay-saying it.
• They have to compete with the SRD and piracy as alternative means of getting the info about the changes.
• The customer has to be concerned enough about rules to bother with an upgrade - many groups play rules-lite, mostly roleplaying.

So it just seems that there's many reasons why a customer wouldn't be buying 3.5E - I hope WotC isn't betting the future of D&D on this.

 

[danzig138]

I'll not be buying them anytime soon, for a few reasons. Mainly, as of this week, I'm not running D&D a for a while. My OA campaign ended Sunday (sadly, almost with a TPK, 1 character lived), and this weekend, I'm going to start a Blood Dawn/d20 Modern game, and after that, maybe some pulp era d20 Modern. Besides, I don't have the cash, and as soon as I get $30-40, I'm buying the new Rapture: The Second Coming. I figure I'll DL the SRD, and when my 3.0 books wear out, I'll buy the new ones as needed.

 

[Ranger REG]

Why do I get the feeling that Monte Cook regretted saying all those bad thing in his initial reviews? Then again, it is possible that he has an ulterior motive ... in the form of his variant player's handbook, Arcana Unearthed.

Anyhoo, it's a moot point. 3.5e is not on the top of my priority list at the moment -- in fact, it hasn't been since the end of Spring -- as I am more anxious about other games coming out this year. For now I'm taking a break from traditional medieval fantasy genre and focus on a different genre using d20, like the upcoming science fiction Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game.

 

[Zustiur]

I'm not planning on getting them at all.

I just don't feel that I get to play often enough to make the expense worthwhile.

Since purchasing the core books as they came out in 2000, I have played DnD, less than 20 times.

I want to get more use out of my books than that if possible. Plus my gamers are having trouble with the rules due to lack of regular gaming anyway.

I'm DMing on Saturday, I'll see what my players think.

Zustiur.

 

[eXodus]

i am actually in the NEVER GOING TO BUY camp.

i will browse the FREE srd when it hits the net and then decide which of the things i want to change in my own game as house rules.

otherwise i am content with 3.0 with all of it's problems. that is what house rules are for i guess.

no need for me to drop $90 on revisions that should have been free web enhancements. but that is a whole different story.

 

[Numion]

As I already have 3.0e books, I would gain little value extra value from 3.5e books. 3 Core books cost 112.5 euros here, which is 125+ dollars, and thats a bit too much for the value I get from them. So no 3.5e for me.

I'll just get AU and Midnight with my $$$. That's whole new material for less money.