Best Part of 4E: Cheap 3E Books!

[CleverNickName]

This tip's a year or so late...

Not long after 4e was announced, a ton of official WotC books could be had on Amazon for $0.01 (+$3.99 s/h).

I filled out my Eberron library nicely thanks to that.

Nice. I grabbed a copy of Libris Mortis for $1 and a Draconomicon for $2 (plus shipping, of course.) I would have never purchased them at cover price...but a couple of bucks for both is a different story.

 

[rgard]

We can argue about whether 4E is any good or not, but one great side effect of 4E is that you can find 3E books for cheap. I just ordered a bunch of stuff from Atlas and Green Ronin from the Paizo store for $2 and $5 a book. Thanks 4E!

http://paizo.com/store/sale/greenRoninApocalypseSale

paizo.com - Store / On Sale Now / Atlas Games d20 Clearance!

Hey All, I ordered several Green Ronin products from Paizo, but they double billed me. The site is down. Does anybody have an email address for them?

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Psion]

I'm finding that the aftermarket outside of remaindered WotC books, isn't that hot. More folks are holding on to their 3e books than even I anticipated.

Just ordered the last book I had missing from Scarred Lands - Players Guide to Monks and Paladins - as well as a big slug of stuff from Goodman. (I was just going to order DCC 51 from Amazon, but I figured out that I could satisfy the order from goodman games and have 4 more books for just about the same price.)

 

[jdrakeh]

I'm finding that the aftermarket outside of remaindered WotC books, isn't that hot.

It's not now, but last Autumn, you could grab pretty much any d20 book for around $9.95 (I bought mountains of them, just to get a look at stuff that I had missed). It didn't take long before the initial "OMG! D&D 3.5 is dead!" panic wore off, though, and the prices subsequently started to rise again (at Amazon and other reseller sites).

Although there are still some deals to be had, the days of hot deals everywhere are pretty well gone (some fairly recent d20 books are even fetching collectible-type prices on Amazon, now). Sadly, I sold those mountains of books before the prices went back up, and now own only Grim Tales, the 3.5 MM, and Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary (well, insofar as d20/OGL books are concerned).

 

[Umbran]

Additionally, because D&D as a whole is arguably now over...

Yes, but having that argument here, over and over, is not constructive. Picking at scabs only serves to create scars.

I'm sorry you find the new edition inadequate for your needs. But this thread isn't about how inadequate the new edition is. So please stop harping on it, as you're starting to annoy your fellow posters. Move on to some other topic or thread, please.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Aha! Found that Bastion Press sale again:

- Studio 2 Publishing, Inc.

They're to be found under d20 Supplements -> Books. Or there might be a better way to filter stuff. Anyway, there they are.

 

[roguerouge]

How's their Faeries book? I could use a scouting report on what I'd be getting.

 

[Voadam]

Aha! Found that Bastion Press sale again:

- Studio 2 Publishing, Inc.

They're to be found under d20 Supplements -> Books. Or there might be a better way to filter stuff. Anyway, there they are.

Sort by manufacturers - Bastion Press

 

[Voadam]

How's their Faeries book? I could use a scouting report on what I'd be getting.

I like it, its got things on different powerful faeries and their lands in the fairy realms such as Baba Yaga and her forest or Jack Frost and the winter kingdom as well as the low CR common faeries and fey-touched. It presents a neat fey setting/cosmology as well as splat/topical type information. The full color lush art works well in this book IMO.