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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8960941" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Time will tell. A bigger divide, I think, is digital vs. physical. I think that the those who make heavy use of D&D Beyond will move to the updated rule books. While I'm confident that the older books will still be available to those who bought them as "legacy" content, I expect that they will stop selling them as soon as the new books are available on DDB.  I mean, they already did that with Volo's and Mordenkainen's which are both published during the life of the 2014 rules. While you can continue to play with 2014 rules in DDB, I can't imagine they will indefiniately support legacy content as they develop new features. Certainly the VTT won't.  It'll be interesting how they handle the pricing. For those who stick to physical books, there is a lot more friction to moving to new rule books. Putting aside collectors and completionists, many people will may put off of buying the new books until they finish current and planned campaigns and some may just not want to spend money on lightly updated rulesets if they are happy with what they have. Besides money, I think having a physical books on the shelf creates additional friction in that you don't want to just get rid of the books you have, but non-collectors are not necessarily going to want to have old and new versions of the same game taking space on your shelves.Reading this thread, I realized that this is the first time I ever really had to deal with this. Back in the late 80s, I stopped playing 1st edition D&D and moved to Warhammer Fantasy as my main fantasy game. Then I stopped playing TTRPGs when I went to college and traded away nearly all of my gaming stuff. So I was blissfully unaware all of the edition wars from 2nd through 4th edition. I don't really have strong opinions on it, but it is interesting to look at all the 5e stuff I have and wonder whether I really need updated rules. I'm on the fence and am waiting to see what the final product is. But I'm also looking at running a campaign with a non-DnD system after my current campaign is done. 2023 may be a repeat of 1989 for me.</blockquote>

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