Core Rules Alternative Cover Gift Set

Original covers online: $96. This set: $170. It is hard to justify spending that much for something we already have, or could get much cheaper with the normal covers.

 

[Warpiglet]

Your numbers are North American. Where I live $170 represents about 6.5% of tuition for a year of university. So it's win-win, I get the alternate boxed set and my children avoid crippling debt.

That does sound nice...but what is your marginal tax rate

 

[dave2008]

The question is this: will my children and their children take as much pleasure in owning the limited edition alternate cover slipcase set as I will? I hope so because it's coming out of their college fund.

LOL
I guess I know where to get the funds now.

 

[machineelf]

Original covers online: $96. This set: $170. It is hard to justify spending that much for something we already have, or could get much cheaper with the normal covers.

Then don't buy it.

 

[rknop]

...and you know what format you still can't get the core books in? PDF! When is WotC going to realize that we're in the second decade of the 21st century? That all not having PDFs does is hurt their sales. You get people like me who have ignored 5e altogether because of the lack of legal PDFs. Then you get the people who might have purchased a legal PDF, but because it wasn't available, found it another way. There's no way that the unavailability of legal PDFs fights piracy; it just inconveniences and/or drives away their legitimate customers.

WOTC! WAKE UP!

I would almost certainly have purchased at least one or two of the core books in hardback by now if it were possible to get legal PDFs for them. (Better if you got a free PDF with the hardback, which most companies do nowadays.)

 

[BookBarbarian]

They redid the DM screen half a year ago. You'll find it now as the DM Screen Reincarnated, has new tables on the back.

Oh really? if found the original screen lacking in what I really wanted to be able to lookup offhand. I found a player made version I like better. I'll have to check out the update and see if it is more my speed.

 

[darjr]

The parts of the screen we can see looks different, is it?

 

[Superchunk77]

Nope. I'll save my money for Pathfinder 2 next year. Or maybe Dark Sun if that ends up being one of their setting books. Even then it would just be to collect it, like their 4e version. I would never run Dark Sun in 5e.

 

[mach1.9pants]

With the core books being $NZ75 in store each, I'd hate to see what the special set costs. Not that I will see what this costs as I've not ever seen a special edition cover in NZ. So would like a set tho

 

[RevTurkey]

Seems a little pricey but then the srp/rrp of the books normally is comparable I think so by that measure, not so bad. I’d like to see the books have proper bindings rather than glued..that would make the cost much less of an issue.

 

[jgsugden]

...and you know what format you still can't get the core books in? PDF! When is WotC going to realize that we're in the second decade of the 21st century? That all not having PDFs does is hurt their sales. You get people like me who have ignored 5e altogether because of the lack of legal PDFs. Then you get the people who might have purchased a legal PDF, but because it wasn't available, found it another way. There's no way that the unavailability of legal PDFs fights piracy; it just inconveniences and/or drives away their legitimate customers.

WOTC! WAKE UP!

I would almost certainly have purchased at least one or two of the core books in hardback by now if it were possible to get legal PDFs for them. (Better if you got a free PDF with the hardback, which most companies do nowadays.)

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