How much is a "preview" book worth to you?

[Imaro]

Sorry, don't pay to be sold o something. You want me to buy your product then you should be selling it to me. The 4e core books are a maybe right now...preview books are a definite no.

 

[carmachu]

This is what Dragon use to be for. So unless they plan to release the preview book online in Dragon...I'm not planning on spending much.

 

[Korgoth]

Does anyone know how much this will cost? It would be a decent "loss leader" for them if they're willing to sell it at cost, or for a marginal loss.

 

[Reaper Steve]

Two preview books for 4E will cost less than the year's worth of Dragon's I bought to preview 3E. Add I'll have two nice books instead of a stack of 12 magazines.

 

[WarlockLord]

Not buying. Probably will browse through them, but it would probably be better to just wait for the PHB and just play the game.

 

[Imaro]

Two preview books for 4E will cost less than the year's worth of Dragon's I bought to preview 3E. Add I'll have two nice books instead of a stack of 12 magazines.

I thought the Dragon magazine's included other stuff as well...just saying you weren't paying a year's cost for the 3e previews, so why are you comparing them?

 

[Zamkaizer]

I thought the Dragon magazine's included other stuff as well...just saying you weren't paying a year's cost for the 3e previews, so why are you comparing them?

Well, nothing else in those magazines would be applicable in the edition he was reading previews for, now would it?

That's one reason that I prefer 4th Ed. previews aren't being carried in the now-defunct Dragon. I simply have no interest in 3rd Ed. anymore, and issues previewing 4th Ed. would be otherwise worthless to me.

Also, each of these previews books is 100 pages thick, and are indeed purported to contain things like designer commentaries. I'd much rather have 200 pages of information in book form - where I can browse it at will, take it to the bathroom, etc. - than eye-straining, slow-loading, piecemeal-delivered online form.

 

[Reaper Steve]

I thought the Dragon magazine's included other stuff as well...just saying you weren't paying a year's cost for the 3e previews, so why are you comparing them?

Sure I got the whole magazine, but the only reason I bought them was for the previews. Sure, I read some of the other stuff, too. But for me, there will be more value in 2 96 page preview books than in 12 issues of Dragon in 1999.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

I chose the $5-9.99 option, on the grounds that if I saw a magazine filled with previews of 4e written by the designers, I'd be happy to pay that much(*) to pick it up. I've spent that much before on magazines full of previews for other games.

(*) Just noting that since I'm in Australia, with our special "Deliverance-style" pricing policies, I usually had to spend more than $US10 to buy Dragon or Dungeon off the shelf.

 

[Nifft]

Got cable television? If so, then you do this all the time.

I don't have a TV.

Cheers, -- N