Professor Murder
Hero
Im willing to be patient.
D&D 5E Expansion Rules Gift set: Should I buy?
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Professor Murder
Hero
Everything is up for grabs. For me, if I sell the old books to update, I expect to break even or even profit, so the math isnt the issue. If you dont expect to use the books over the 2+ years, wait. If you are going to be playing, they can be worth it. That said, Tasha and Xanathars are mostly player resources.
Scribe
Legend
If you think you can flip your existing books at no loss, or even a profit, do that.
You lose nothing, you gain the new book.
I don't own Tasha's, but I'm getting quite disillusioned with 5e away, so I'm not sure I care for the set, just for 1 book I want.
Professor Murder
Hero
The main thing stopping me is that the alt covers are so nice. Its the magpie in me I know.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
If you do not have any of the books, yeah go for it. The content is great, and the 2024 refresh, whatever it is precisely, is supposed to be backwards compatible sonthey should all retain value for play into the foreseeable future.
Bolares
Legend
Then absolutelly not. You will trade better covers for worse ones (based on your personal taste) because of a book you will be able to get latter. Resist the FOMO!
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Just to bring up a nit-picky point that seems destined to be intentionally lost. The content will always retain value for play almost perpetually into the future. Regardless of editions changes or backward compatibility. As long as you can find people to play with, it's still a game you can play. There's nothing and no one forcing people to switch to whatever the revised edition is or to an entirely new edition when/if one drops. People are still gleefully playing AD&D, B/X, and all the other older editions of the game. The old books are not rounded up and burned, nor are the pages scrubbed of ink when new editions are released.
Weiley31
Legend
I really say that despite how you may feel if its worth it or not, if you were lucky enough to have the Mord/Volo/Tasha Alt covers, I say keep em as the price for them now is cray-----ZEEEE!!!!!
As for your question: Depends. The gift set is pretty much your all one stop shop for not only the Mord/Volo monsters, but also for a number of races that are spread out over the course of multiple books, with some of said books having some reprints of certain races.
I have pre-quasi errata Xanathars(correct Ancestral Guardian Dice chart but pre-nerfed Healing Spirit) and I have pre-errata Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (Glorious painful Red Abishai bites) so that renders one and half of one of the books in the set meaningless for me technically. The only ones I don't have are Volos and Tasha's. Still the fact that I'll have a good portion of 5E Races all in one spot for me and the new stat blocks appeal to me. Plus I never got into Alt covers until Tyranny of Dragons 2019, so I missed out on Volo/Xanathar/Mord in that regards.
I will say though, I do like the regular edition's Slipcase cover as well, especially with the party Bard and Wizard strolling alongside each other while the black cat familiar is walking a head of them with the mouse in its mouth.
YMMV: especially if owning the previous versions of the books they cover are already in your collection.
As for your question: Depends. The gift set is pretty much your all one stop shop for not only the Mord/Volo monsters, but also for a number of races that are spread out over the course of multiple books, with some of said books having some reprints of certain races.
I have pre-quasi errata Xanathars(correct Ancestral Guardian Dice chart but pre-nerfed Healing Spirit) and I have pre-errata Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (Glorious painful Red Abishai bites) so that renders one and half of one of the books in the set meaningless for me technically. The only ones I don't have are Volos and Tasha's. Still the fact that I'll have a good portion of 5E Races all in one spot for me and the new stat blocks appeal to me. Plus I never got into Alt covers until Tyranny of Dragons 2019, so I missed out on Volo/Xanathar/Mord in that regards.
I will say though, I do like the regular edition's Slipcase cover as well, especially with the party Bard and Wizard strolling alongside each other while the black cat familiar is walking a head of them with the mouse in its mouth.
YMMV: especially if owning the previous versions of the books they cover are already in your collection.
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