Can't find a used PHB v.3.5 for under $45 USD

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Most of these are auctions and will end up selling for close to the Buy-it-Now prices which start at $50 USD.

The the one being auctioned in Australia I'll keep an eye on (one just recently sold for $64 AU in Australia though!)

Thanks for your help

 

[S'mon]

I've been through every edition of AD&D and never seen a phenomenom of this sort. Such a common book, by rights, should drop in value, not increase now that 4th edition is out.

The 3.5 core books initially fell in price with the release of 4e, and I picked up a new 3.5 Monster Manual & DMG last autumn at a good price, around £12 each. I had been running 3.5e with my 3.0 MM & DMG for years, but 4e renewed my interest in the game, and running a regular campaign I thought I should get the full set.

It's gone crazy now though. Prices are sky high. I think 4e may not have panned out for a lot of people. 3e seems more popular now than it was a year ago.

Edit: Last week at my D&D club, the only games running were 3.5 ones, which was tough for the new players who turned up looking for a 4e game.

 

[Dannager]

The 3.5 core books initially fell in price with the release of 4e, and I picked up a new 3.5 Monster Manual & DMG last autumn at a good price, around £12 each. I had been running 3.5e with my 3.0 MM & DMG for years, but 4e renewed my interest in the game, and running a regular campaign I thought I should get the full set.

It's gone crazy now though. Prices are sky high. I think 4e may not have panned out for a lot of people. 3e seems more popular now than it was a year ago.

Edit: Last week at my D&D club, the only games running were 3.5 ones, which was tough for the new players who turned up looking for a 4e game.

I have the opposite experience here in California. Almost nothing but 4th Edition games. 3rd Edition really isn't more popular right now than a year ago. It's a lot less popular. But it seems that way on the surface because a certain group of people are being very vocal about how they're playing 3rd Edition and not 4th Edition. The majority of D&D players are just enjoying their new edition. You may have heard of this phenomenon as the vocal minority.

 

[enworldatemylogin]

I have the opposite experience here in California. Almost nothing but 4th Edition games. 3rd Edition really isn't more popular right now than a year ago. It's a lot less popular. But it seems that way on the surface because a certain group of people are being very vocal about how they're playing 3rd Edition and not 4th Edition. The majority of D&D players are just enjoying their new edition. You may have heard of this phenomenon as the vocal minority.

Being in California, my experience is 4E was popular out the door because everyone was giving it a chance.

Now certain parties may or may not be as excited, however, because 4E has captured certain hearts, those who currently want to run a game, 4E seems like the popular choice.

In my experience the above is exactly what happened. My FLGS owner who also ran a campaign switched to 4E. He wont go back to 3E despite the fact a couple of us prefer 3E.

Then my other group also tried 4E. We didn't like it but someone wanted to try it from the DM's viewpoint so we are going to play yet more of it.

Personally I'm wishing to go Hero System or FATE/Spirit of the Century.

 

[knasser]

I've got a complete set of 3.5 core plus various additional books. I also have a lot of 2nd Ed. stuff and even a few "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" books which I presume means 1st edition. My friend has a very old thing called "Keep on the Borderlands" which I've heard mentioned on these boards from time to time. I sort of tried to sell them with an ad in a local "trade it" website but no takers. I just want to do them as a job lot so that I don't end up with useless odds and ends and I don't want to ebay it because I (a) despise paypal and (b) don't want to bother dealing with postage and packing, etc.

I'm thinking by this point, I'll just keep hanging on to them till a random stranger walks up to me in the street and asks me if I happen to have some D&D books to sell.

 

[S'mon]

I have the opposite experience here in California. Almost nothing but 4th Edition games. 3rd Edition really isn't more popular right now than a year ago. It's a lot less popular. But it seems that way on the surface because a certain group of people are being very vocal about how they're playing 3rd Edition and not 4th Edition. The majority of D&D players are just enjoying their new edition. You may have heard of this phenomenon as the vocal minority.

I suspect that WoTC may have a better intuitive handle on what West Coast US gamers like than they do on gamers worldwide, or in the US heartlands. So I'm not surprised if 4e is doing well in California or Seattle.

 

[Festivus]

Californian here too. I can only speak to my experience, which is that the popularity at our gameday is mainly a grassroots support system. A couple of us got together and planned the WoTC WW Gameday kickoff at the FLGS. Had we not done so, the store wouldn't have run the event. We had 75 people at that initial meetup. We are now over 250, and the usual attendance is around 75 each month. Growth doesn't happen because we don't have the space for it.

Support from WoTC for us has been limited to offering WWGD, Delve night and LFR modules and promotional materials to put on display at the FLGS. Everything else from drumming up players and DMs to prize giveaways has been driven by the players of the game.

I do agree that 4E is way more popular than d20, but there are staunch defenders of those systems here as well.

 

[Yalius]

Seriously, what?

Amazon.com: Used and New: Dungeon Master's Guide II (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying Supplement)

There are a lot of them in "New" quantity selling in the 12-14 dollar range.

 

[Greg K]

Dannager,
We must be having different experiences. I am here in CA as well and out of about ten groups that I know, only two are playing 4e.

I have the opposite experience here in California. Almost nothing but 4th Edition games. 3rd Edition really isn't more popular right now than a year ago. It's a lot less popular. But it seems that way on the surface because a certain group of people are being very vocal about how they're playing 3rd Edition and not 4th Edition. The majority of D&D players are just enjoying their new edition. You may have heard of this phenomenon as the vocal minority.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Funny.

I sold a special edition player's handbook 3.5 and it went for under $45.

As the carnival kids would cry 'shenanagians'