D&D 5E How much 5e do you plan to get?

[nerfherder]

I've just ordered the PHB. I'll read that, and see if I feel inspired to run a game. If I do like it, then I'll probably follow with the DMG & MM, and probably not a lot else. We already have more games we want to run than we have time to play, and haven't played 4e for over a year (maybe 2?).

 

[Jeff Carlsen]

I intend to buy all of the products they have currently announced, since I don't think I'll have a full sense of the game until then. After that, I'll take a wait an see approach.

 

[Thaumaturge]

If I decide to buy in, I'll pick up all three core rulebooks and both the adventures thus far announced. My intention beyond that would be to get nothing else - but I said that about 3e, too.

Yeah, I said that about 3e, too.

Which is why I answered "Most of the products".

Thaumaturge.

 

[SteveC]

For me it's going to depend on how much the game goes for in PDF. Assuming it's reasonable (say half the cover price) I'll probably pick up the PHB that way and take a look. It's crazy to say that I'll end up paying the same price for a PDF for the new edition as I did for the last one in hardcover.

I find it extremely unlikely that I'll need the PHB to read or reference, so it's likely to be the first edition that I pass on buying it.

Now for the electronic components, if the Character Builder operates like the last one, I actually see no reason to actually get the books at all at this point. I can't remember the last time I opened a 4E book, and I'm playing and running it!

Still a bit early to judge at this point, but we'll have to see how things end up.

 

[Agamon]

I've pre-ordered the core 3, beyond that, who knows. I'm not much of a splat guy anymore.

 

[Serendipity]

Well...so far nothing. Unless the game on release is substantially different from the latter incarnations of the playtest documents, nothing at all. I'll keep an open mind once release and hype have come and gone but so far, nothing's prying me away from Swords & Wizardry, DCC, or any other preferred fantasy rpgs.

 

[Riley]

Everything announced so far - except the miniatures.

 

[Zaran]

My answer really depends on how much the system works. My group didn't much care for 5e when we did the beta. If I have to house rule it to death then I won't be buying too much and will make up the parts I'm lacking.

 

[Stormonu]

I'm in wait-and-see mode, I'll have to peruse the actual books or be in a game before I plunk down any money this time around.

i'd like to get the PHB, MM and I'm not sure if the starter set or DMG will be the better option (not sure what the DMG will have over the DM-centric Starter set). If I find the game to my liking, I tend to pick up adventures and any additional monster books down the road. I'm no longer a completist - 3E cured me of that.

 

[Patrick McGill]

Preordering the "big" 3 was easy for me; but having those adventures written by Kobold Press put them in my BUY NOW category very quickly. If they were done internally I would have a wait and see attitude on those.

Here's hoping they outsource more adventures, or reveal themselves to have written some good internal ones.