D&D 5E Are you going to buy 5e?

[delericho]

Maybe. I'm still leaning towards waiting for reviews from people I trust and then making the decision, but the availability of Basic means that it's a whole lot easier for me to just get that and decide for myself.

Either way, though, I'm determined that this time I won't get sucked into buying endless numbers of supplements. Which I'm sure is entirely realistic...

 

[TerraDave]

North, south, or barber?

Wife burning, obviously.

 

[Blackbrrd]

Maybe. I'm still leaning towards waiting for reviews from people I trust and then making the decision, but the availability of Basic means that it's a whole lot easier for me to just get that and decide for myself.

Either way, though, I'm determined that this time I won't get sucked into buying endless numbers of supplements. Which I'm sure is entirely realistic...

I think that 5e won't have an endless number of supplements and that I, for the first time, think will actually buy the supplements. In 3 and 4e I really didn't see the point of buying 20 additonal books with character options. In 3e I got so fed up with them that I ran a core-only game (PHB, DMG, MM). Regarding 4e, I just relied on DDI.

I know I should have waited for the basic rules to be published, but heck, I can cancel my order if they are something completely different than expected. The PHB, DMG, MM and Starter Set, shipped individually to Norway from USA only costs about 4 hours of work after taxes...

 

[DEFCON 1]

I most likely won't buy the Starter Set. If I did, it'd be just for the module, and with Scourge of the Sword Coast and Hoard of the Dragon Queen including adventure areas for low-level characters, Lost Mine of Phandelver does not appear necessary.

I will download the Basic D&D game when it becomes available, because why not?

I won't buy the Player's Handbook or Hoard of the Dragon Queen yet, because I am Judging at GenCon this year, and will wait to see what the swag ends up being for doing so. If either of these products are not part of the swag, then I'll buy them at the con.

I will buy the Monster Manual when it is released. Probably from a store, unless I decide to go through Amazon (but usually I try to avoid that for D&D new releases.)

I won't pick up Rise of Tiamat until I've seen how much I've enjoyed Hoard, and even then I'll probably flip through the adventure first, as I don't tend to do much high-level adventuring and thus might not require an adventure for levels 8-15.

I will buy the Dungeon Master's Guide when it is released, same as the MM.

I also will be maintaining my DDI subscription under the expectation that the online Dragon and Dungeon magazines will start back up and produce new material (as well as perhaps if lucky, also giving access to Morningstar.)

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

I'm not interested in 5E but I am interested in the FR adventures (I don't like the idea behind Tyranny of Dragons but I firmly believe that Wolf Baur and Steve Winter will have done great work), which also means I will be getting the Starter Set purely for the sake of the adventure (which has the added bonus of being written by Rich Baker whose work I respect greatly).

 

[Jester David]

I'm going to GenCon this year and hope to get my PHB signed, so I'm hoping to find the book from a local store early in August.
But I've pre-ordered the other core books because they're OMFGWTF expensive, especially in Canada for no good reason. So, for the foreseeable future, Amazon trumps my local game store.

I might buy the Starter Set if I feel up to doing a review of that product.

I was tempted to get the Starter Set for the same reasons I almost bought the Pathfinder Beginner Box: my son. Someday I'd like to get him into gaming. And a Starter Set style product would be nice to show off and use, along with Basic D&D.
The reason I didn't get the PF Beginner Box was because my son was much too young and I decided there might be a revised edition of Pathfinder before then. It's going to be six to eight years before I can really conceivably get him into the game. There might be a sixth edition by that point...

 

[fjw70]

I am going to pick up the starter set on the 3rd from a local game store.

i have preordered the other 2014 releases from Amazon but I am trying to decide if I should just wait for Amazon or cancel those and get them early from the LGS, but either way I am getting them.

 

[tsadkiel]

Money's tight this year, so I'll be sticking with the PHB plus Basic, but I am in.

 

[Agamon]

I had the PH preordered, but I cancelled it...because I know when it comes out at the FLGS on the 7th, there's nooooo way I'm waiting until the 19th to get it from Amazon. 7th is a Friday, even. Weekend reading!

 

[Manbearcat]

The tentative results of this poll should make WotC et al pretty happy. Obviously it doesn't say anything about the long term health of the edition or the brand at large, but an initial buy-in at that rate is cause for adult beverages and confetti.