D&D 5E Don't Throw 5e Away Because of Hasbro

[Retreater]

They will. Don’t worry they will. Unless of course they did already and just sold them all.

It was odd. I asked an employee and they said they were ordering them only on request. I guess enough of the D&D inventory has been sitting around that they didn't want to get stuck with more books.
The place puts all their books in shrink wrap anyway - so I couldn't do a flip through even if they had the books.

 

[AlViking]

It was odd. I asked an employee and they said they were ordering them only on request. I guess enough of the D&D inventory has been sitting around that they didn't want to get stuck with more books.
The place puts all their books in shrink wrap anyway - so I couldn't do a flip through even if they had the books.

Putting all their product in shrink-wrap seems like a good way to tell potential customers they may as well order from amazon to me.

 

[Imaro]

It was odd. I asked an employee and they said they were ordering them only on request. I guess enough of the D&D inventory has been sitting around that they didn't want to get stuck with more books.
The place puts all their books in shrink wrap anyway - so I couldn't do a flip through even if they had the books.

I wonder if that has something to do with the WotC's pre-order bundles..I hadn't bought any of them pre D&D '24 (though I am starting to thinkmtheynwere doing very well for,WotC... but for anyone using DnD Beyond they were almost a No-Brainer deal for the 3 new core books.

 

[Retreater]

Putting all their product in shrink-wrap seems like a good way to tell potential customers they may as well order from amazon to me.

I only buy half-priced used books from them. It does stink to not be able to browse books. And we don't have bookstores locally either, unfortunately.

 

[Retreater]

I wonder if that has something to do with the WotC's pre-order bundles..I hadn't bought any of them pre D&D '24 (though I am starting to thinkmtheynwere doing very well for,WotC... but for anyone using DnD Beyond they were almost a No-Brainer deal for the 3 new core books.

Maybe? I'm thinking that no one in my town is playing TTRPGs. For example, our social media pages looking for gamers haven't had a post in over a year.
If it's the golden age of RPGs, I'm not seeing it here.

 

[Remathilis]

Bad analogy.

What if you disliked someone because you saw them at a distance, knew their dad, and read all their social media posts which revealed them to be a jerk?

Because in this case, revealed monster statblocks, tables of contents, etc. is the equivalent of social media posts. I'm not saying that 5.24 is a jerk; I'm saying that I've read enough about the books through articles and the many, many threads posted about 5.24 on this and other forums to know I dislike it enough to not want to buy it. Especially not for $150 plus tax and shipping.

Analogy still fails, because you still are basing it on what your bias are about things surrounding the person rather than the person themselves.

However, I'm not here to convince you to like anything or anyone you don't want to. You don't have to justify it, and you probably shouldn't try to.

 

[Faolyn]

Analogy still fails, because you still are basing it on what your bias are about things surrounding the person rather than the person themselves.

Not "surrounding" the person. Put out by the person. Created by the person.

Or in this case, by the company.

Because they're advertisements. All these sneak peaks and influencer reviews are advertisements, which have the purpose of hopefully making you want to buy the product.

Therefore, you're supposed to judge the product by them.

 

[CellarHeroes]

Putting all their product in shrink-wrap seems like a good way to tell potential customers they may as well order from amazon to me.

One of the shops I go to shrink-wrap their books, because they put an anti-theft tag inside the cover. Customers are also made aware that if you want to flip through the book all they have to do is bring it to the counter and the staff will remove the shrink-wrap and the customer can look at it there.

Based on the few times I've done this, the staff seem happy to do it. They may even try to strike up a conversation about the book.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I suspect the retailers who use shrink rap do so because otherwise they would get an awful lot of stolen or damaged stock. Most of the London shops do. Although I did read the whole of Ghostwalk in Piccadilly Waterstones a good many years ago. But that is a big big shop, they can cover more losses.