D&D 4E Has the 4E Announcement Changed Your Buying Plans?

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

We put off purchasing Monsternomicon 2 because of the 4e announcement... but, really, it just meant we spent more money on Privateer minis.

 

[Knightfall]

Yep. I won't buy any more 3e stuff unless it's something I absolutely must have (like a Fiendish Codex 3) until I'm sure whether I'm moving on to 4e or sticking with 3.5.

I'd been planning on buying Spell Compendium, as I'm always using my friends' copies at the table, but since it's going to be obsolete in less than a year, I'll take a pass.

You know, great minds think alike. I hadn't bought either Spell Compendium or Magic Item Compendium, since several of my friends have copies, but I was toying with the idea of buying both plus the new Rules Compendium.

There isn't any way that's going to happen now.

I was toying with buying Complete Champion (and the other new Complete books) too. Now, I'll let my friends buy those books if they feel they must have them for the game.

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

c'mon buy it!
2) its the only way to convince WOTC to do more greyhawk stuff by having it sell like hotcakes

I would hope that WotC is smart enough to realize that any product released so close to the announcement of a new edition isn't going to sell as well as previous products, no matter what the subject or campaign setting is.

 

[Mark Hope]

Hasn't changed a thing, other than convincing me that I really want to try the new Elric RPG. Not sure of the connection, but as soon as I heard about 4e, I got an overwhelming urge to invest time and money into Elric instead. Odd, especially as I've never played Runequest in my life (although I am a shameless Moorcock fanboi...)

 

[Umbran]

So what about you? How has the 4E announcement changed what you are going to buy?

I expect I'm likely to buy more 3.x products now, as they'll soon be out of print and a bit more of a pain to get. My group may or may not switch to 4e, and it is reasonably likely that the two editions will be different enough that I'd use them for different things - so even if we move on, we might move back later on. So, I'm apt to beef up my library for the future.

 

[broghammerj]

So there's a good chance that WotC will get your money anyway? That'll show them!

/M

Well, at least not all of it I enjoyed previously playing SW, but never bought any books. This will give me an excuse to get a nice well written core rules. Much of my same philosophy with 4E ironically.

 

[The_Universe]

Nope. WotC-wise, I planned on getting EtRoGH, and that's it for all the books that had been announced. Picked it up today.

Still a subscriber to Pathfinder and GameMastery at Paizo.

It's all good.

We're still on for Pathfinder, and I suspect we'll pick up the 3.5 rule compendium. However, the 4e announcement pretty much stopped me from grabbing Monster Manual 5 and Privateer Press's Monsternomicon 2.

 

[billd91]

I'm still on for Pathfinder. Paizo has been too hot for me to pass it up without at least investigating it for a few issues.

My order of Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk just arrived today.

But I decided not to get the 3.5 Rule Compendium or Complete Champion. Don't expect to get any of the other adventures I don't already have.

I DO expect to get a 4th ed PH at least. I have to at least investigate the game before I make any decisions on it.

Right now I'm a bit concerned about the prospect of hard cover version of the Age of Worms and Savage Tide. I want both. But I'm not seeing how it's going to happen without them being converted into 4th ed and wondering how that will affect the play of the modules.

 

[Jer]

Only in one way -

I suspect that early next year I'll start seeing oodles of D&D books showing up at Half Price Books as people do the grand sell off to make room in their collections for the new stuff, and as distributors start remaindering the books they have in stock before the 4e publication date hits. So maybe I'll find some things that have been low priority at a good price (the way I picked up the Dungeon Master's Guide II the other week when Half Price got a huge stack of remaindered copies) - it would be nice to find cheap copies of the Expedition series I haven't felt the urge to pay full price for yet (like Undermountain and Demonweb Pits).

Otherwise - still getting Pathfinder. No real plans to pick up anything else D&D-ish in the near term that isn't used or remaindered. I'll re-evaluate my position once 4e comes around, but I suspect given where the money issues are right now and for the forseeable future, my D&D spending will be curtailed for a while.

 

[Mighty Halfling]

A few points ...
+++ I certainly regret some of the purchases I made in the last year or so.
+++ As someone said, I too will be "thinning the herd" of some of my unused or uninteresting 3/3.5e books.
+++ I had planned on picking up quite a few things over the next year or so ... Races of Stone, Magic Item Compendium, a few of the WotC modules with the Dungeon Delve format. Now, I'd only buy them on a massive, massive discount.
+++ Also, as someone said, I'm a little more interested in Rules Compendium since it (should be) the complete, final and 100% official version of 3.5e.
+++ There's also no need to buy Star Wars Saga Edition, since a better version will be available in D&D 4E soon enough.
+++ DDM is out for a while two since my playing group decided last week (a few days before the announcement), that we're taking a break from D&D to play Spirit of the Century.