D&D 5E Even if you like D&D Next, are you buying it, and how soon?

[Alan Shutko]

If you own every other version of D&D and its retroclones... I don't know why you WOULDN'T be buying 5E as well. You obviously like Dungeons & Dragons in all its formats. Why this one is suddenly the dealbreaker seems to run counter to your purchasing habits in the past.

I can't answer for Stormonu, but I can answer for myself. I happen to have all the previous editions of D&D. But honestly, I hardly use most of them, because while I'm ok with most of them, I'm not equally fond of all of them. When I'm DMing I run RCD&D, and I'm playing in a 2e game. I don't want to add another version to the pile just to have it sit on the shelf.

 

[Blackwarder]

Isn't it a bit premature? It a year until release, I think that threads like this are counterproductive...

Warder

 

[am181d]

Isn't it abut premature? It a year until release, I think that threads like this are counterproductive...

This. Maybe ask again in a year when the initial books (or whatever they wind up selling) are actually scheduled and ready for pre-order. Even the people who have been participating in the free play-test have only seen a fraction of the final product, and only in an explicitly preliminary state.

While some people might be sold on the final product based on (a) brand loyalty or (b) the playtest being "good enough," the reasonable position is to wait until the rules are finalized and presented before coming to any specific decision about the game.

 

[EYEforanEYE]

As a collector, I am going to buy D&D Next because I see it as the end of the D&D franchise. Might as well get something and it be worth something later on especially the last product that has pretty much signed a great name to its death...

 

[Blackwarder]

As a collector, I am going to buy D&D Next because I see it as the end of the D&D franschise. Might as well get something and it be worth something later on especially the last product that has pretty much signed a great name to its death...

Trolling much?...

Warder

 

[Ebon Shar]

I'll buy the initial core books for sure, just as soon as they hit my FLGS. Splat books, supplements, etc will receive scrutiny before any purchase decision is made. I'm not going down the "new core book every year" route ever again. The initial release needs to be a complete game.

 

[EYEforanEYE]

I'll buy the initial core books for sure, just as soon as they hit my FLGS. Splat books, supplements, etc will receive scrutiny before any purchase decision is made. I'm not going down the "new core book every year" route ever again. The initial release needs to be a complete game.

Exactly. This is the same path I took each and every time with each edition that was released. Despite my serious doubt that it will go past D&D Next, I am still going to support the line, buy everything that is released and just hope new life is infused into the D&D trademark. If not, I still have Pathfinder and older editions of D&D I can play...

 

[EYEforanEYE]

I always buy on the "brand loyalty: mentality. It has never failed me as of yet after 38+ years of gaming...

 

[Stormonu]

If you own every other version of D&D and its retroclones... I don't know why you WOULDN'T be buying 5E as well. You obviously like Dungeons & Dragons in all its formats. Why this one is suddenly the dealbreaker seems to run counter to your purchasing habits in the past.

Well, don't have good answer to that. Up to 4E, I liked every edition I got my hands on enough to keep the material, even though it mostly sits on my shelf these days - I do still sometimes take it down to read or do one-shots and in those editions hey-day, I used a good portion of what I bought. The retroclones were acquired in the vain hope I might get my current group or family to play a slightly more "streamlined" version of the old games, and they were free. For 4E (and PF), I just bought the basics. I'm using PF - it's my go-to D&D system, but don't have a use for the 4E material other than to say I've got it; it just sits on my shelf, trying to give me puppy-dog eyes to play it (again).

Unless 5E brings me something everything else I've got doesn't, I can't justify buying it, *sigh* though somehow I imagine somewhere along the way I'll break down and buy it, just to read through it. However, so far the playtests they have put out past the first packet seem to indicate to me I'm not going to be real thrilled with it.

 

[Jack99]

Who on earth said anything about $120 for the core rulebooks?