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

[DEFCON 1]

Will get the PH at GenCon, and will pick up Hoard of the Dragon Queen too (looking to see if I can merge that, Dragonspear Castle, Scourge of the Sword Coast, and Dead in Thay together for a more open Daggerford campaign as my first 5E game). Picking up the MM and DMG as they are released will depend on how necessary I find them (the DMG probably more necessary than the MM assuming the modules all have the necessary monsters in them.) Then probably Rise of Tiamat, assuming I like how HotDQ works with the others.

I'll remain re-upped on D&D Insider assuming they move onto 5E material, and then also see what products get announced and how necessary I find them after that.

 

[Vael]

I've decided to preorder the Core 3, plus the two adventures, as I want to support Kobold Press. After that ... not sure. I'm not planning on buying more minis ... but then I always plan that, it never quite happens. We'll see how 5e shakes out.

 

[fjw70]

My RPG policy lately has been core books plus maybe adventures. We will see if that holds up for 5e.

 

[Ichneumon]

I'll be picking up the core three, the Tyranny adventures, and most of what's released after that. I'll also rejoin D&D Insider once the magazines restart. I doubt that I'll need every adventure, and there's bound to be the occasional splat that can be left aside.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Something else. At the moment it looks like I'll just be getting the PH and DMG.

 

[Primal]

Nothing, unless you count the minis. I'm too invested in PF to switch at this point.

 

[pickin_grinnin]

I'll get the Player's Handbook for myself if I like it. I just pre-ordered a copy for my library (we have a circulating RPG collection), so I'll look through that to see if it interests me. Beyond that, I'll pick and choose.

 

[JEB]

Starter Set and core books for sure. Probably both Tyranny of Dragons modules. After that it'll probably be the approach I took with 3E - buy most of the sourcebooks with new character stuff and monsters and select adventures, as long as they look sufficiently interesting.

This is dependent, of course, on them producing sourcebooks that seem worth buying.

 

[Shemeska]

Too early for me to say. There's nothing at this point that's a hard limit to keep me from eventually picking it up casually (how they handle the radical 4e changes to tieflings, eladrin, and other planar concepts is something that will really determine any future interest). But at the moment, I have a limited amount of time to game, and I'm running a planar Pathfinder campaign that will be running for a while still, plus potentially playing in a 3.5 or PF Planescape game.

Even if I never play the game, I'm interested in any eventual Manual of the Planes, and if they ever did a faithful-to-the-2e-source-material Planescape campaign setting I would be all over that like disease on the Oinoloth.

One caveat to all of this: if WotC did a 5e Planescape, I would absolutely learn the system and do just about anything up to and including making blood sacrifice to Hasbro to have any hand in freelancing on it. Just saying.

We'll see how it develops really.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

Something Else - Right now I probably won't even spend the time downloading the free Basic rules. Not because I dislike 5E, because we've got a good game of Pathfinder going. But there was a time when I thought I'd never play Pathfinder, so I can't utterly rule out 5E.