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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 4969105" data-attributes="member: 63763">I am buying more: In 3.5, I purchased most (not all) of the Complete Books, limiting myself to ones that had options I wanted to try out. For 4e, I'm getting all the powers book. Part of the reason here is that, most games I was involved in would start at low levels, and may not necessarily last until high levels. With X Power books, you get new options for level 1 characters, and quite a few of them. With the Complete books you may get one or two new base classes, but a lot of the book will be prestige classes I may not get around to playing, and some feats. If there was a character builder in 3.5 I would easily skip most of the splat books because the feats or spells would be available there instead of spread over tons of books.  Another reason for the increase in books purchased is that I'm DM'ing 4e which I wasn't doing for 3.5. This means that I'm buying the "DM" books like the Monster Manuals, Open Grave, etc. The 4e books are more focused than the 3.5 books (for example, the books are obviously for players or for DM's, while a number of books in 3.5 contained player crunch, but also a lot of DM only stuff (like their undead book). EDIT:  As for my reasons for buying lots of books despite having DDi, it's partially because I'm a DM for a group that doesn't have DDi, and many of them don't get their own books, so it allows them an opportunity to build their own characters. Also, in some cases, the group will be leveling up "on the fly", or spending their money on treasure, etc ... and having the books at the table can help them out as well.</blockquote>

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