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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8654944" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>Early in the 5E era there was far less WotC products to buy. That makes this an odd question. </p><p></p><p>Here are the core books and campaign guides available for <em>sale</em> by year:</p><p></p><p>2014: 3 Core (MM, DMG, PHB)</p><p>2015: 1+ SCAG (bonus: Free Elemental Evil Player's Companion)</p><p>2016: 1 VGtM</p><p>2017: 1 XGtE</p><p>2018: 2 GGtR, MToF</p><p>2019: 2 AI, EBftLW</p><p>2020: 3 TCoE, EGtW, MOoT</p><p>2021: 3 FToD, VRGtR, SaCoC</p><p>2022: 3 MPMotM, Spelljammer, Dragonlance</p><p></p><p>We've had 2 Campaign/Adventure books per year fairly consistently. </p><p></p><p>In terms of physcial purchases, I bought everything through 2018, then about 1 book per year for the last few years. </p><p></p><p>However, I have purchased all of the above (through the 2021 materials) on D&D Beyond. A lot of these books are fun to have on D&D Beyond, but I will not miss not having them down the road when Beyond closes shop (which I assume it will - although it would be great if they gave the books to us on pdf at that point as encouragement to go with them for the next edition). I may buy some of them in used book situations in the future, but I hardly crack my physical books now, and I imagine I will move on from 5E when 6E comes unless it takes a 4E style right turn.</p><p></p><p>For 3rd party, I have only 3 in the 5E era, and 2 of those are Critical Role which is a psuedo WotC as you get. The last was a purchase I made to use up some store credit before I moved - Courts of the Shadow Fey. </p><p></p><p>However, as I see them 'playtesting' changes in the mechanics in recent products, much like they did at the end of 3.5E and 4E, I am hesitating to buy materials these days. Buying a product in 2017 when I thought 5E had at least 5 more years to go was a good deal... but as I think the edition has less than 5 years less, I am less likely to buy it now as it has less use - and it is competing with more stuff that I already own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 8654944, member: 2629"] Early in the 5E era there was far less WotC products to buy. That makes this an odd question. Here are the core books and campaign guides available for [I]sale[/I] by year: 2014: 3 Core (MM, DMG, PHB) 2015: 1+ SCAG (bonus: Free Elemental Evil Player's Companion) 2016: 1 VGtM 2017: 1 XGtE 2018: 2 GGtR, MToF 2019: 2 AI, EBftLW 2020: 3 TCoE, EGtW, MOoT 2021: 3 FToD, VRGtR, SaCoC 2022: 3 MPMotM, Spelljammer, Dragonlance We've had 2 Campaign/Adventure books per year fairly consistently. In terms of physcial purchases, I bought everything through 2018, then about 1 book per year for the last few years. However, I have purchased all of the above (through the 2021 materials) on D&D Beyond. A lot of these books are fun to have on D&D Beyond, but I will not miss not having them down the road when Beyond closes shop (which I assume it will - although it would be great if they gave the books to us on pdf at that point as encouragement to go with them for the next edition). I may buy some of them in used book situations in the future, but I hardly crack my physical books now, and I imagine I will move on from 5E when 6E comes unless it takes a 4E style right turn. For 3rd party, I have only 3 in the 5E era, and 2 of those are Critical Role which is a psuedo WotC as you get. The last was a purchase I made to use up some store credit before I moved - Courts of the Shadow Fey. However, as I see them 'playtesting' changes in the mechanics in recent products, much like they did at the end of 3.5E and 4E, I am hesitating to buy materials these days. Buying a product in 2017 when I thought 5E had at least 5 more years to go was a good deal... but as I think the edition has less than 5 years less, I am less likely to buy it now as it has less use - and it is competing with more stuff that I already own. [/QUOTE]
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