If I don't buy 3.5...

[FreeTheSlaves]

Your players will begin arriving late, then not, and then they will shun you out of game.

You will lose the will to shave and then grow very old.

Finally you will be located on a street corner, drinking meths with your bread mumbling obscenities about "hasht" and "dang ramnjas".

Repent Moe, it is not yet too late for you!

 

[scarymonkey]

You'll end up over at:

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/

talking about the good old days of 3E.

 

[Technik4]

Put me down for 1 of each

Im not a WotC fanboy or anything, but how can anyone NOT want those books?

PHB: Fixing Classes, Spells, Skills, Feats, AoO, Grapple, Spell Explosion Radius, etc etc.

DMG: Might as well call it the DMG +1. 50+ more pages, I'm sure there will be more magic items, fixed magic items, better rules for magic items, slightly improved CR/EL/XP relationship, more prestige classes (albeit reprinted, but also improved), probably better rules on things like deities (now that Deities and Demigods is out), better rules on planes (now that Manual of Planes is out), better rules on ECL stuff. Whew. Oh and etc.

MM: Have you SEEN the pit fiend? Almost 80 new pages, a monster a page (so I hear), no stats on the wrong pages, new art, art for monsters that never had it, better DR, better monsters, more feats for monsters, hopefully more options for monsters (how to make different goblins, FAST), BAB and grapple listed with the monsters, a tactics section for monsters that dms probably run too weak...the list goes on.

Honestly, the SRD will have some of that, but how can you NOT want it for yourself? Maybe not the second they come out, but hey Amazon usually discounts D&D at least 20%, I know Im gonna have $60-70, why arent you?

Technik

 

[beta-ray]

*I* might want the books, but my pocketbook DEFINITELY DOESN'T want them... *sigh*

 

[Erastus]

Three possibilities if you don't buy 3.5:

A) No one else in your gaming group buys it either and you continue playing 3.0

B) Someone else in your gaming group buys 3.5 and you can flip through their copy to stay up to date.

C) There's no one else in your gaming group, which means that it doesn't really matter which system you favor.

Crisis resolved (until you decide to go to a gaming convention, but if you're so involved in gaming that you go to conventions or events, you're obviously very committed to gaming, so why not just buy it? Compared to the beanie baby weirdos and some other hobbists, we gamers are actually pretty thrifty with our $20-$40 books that we use over and over again.)

 

[Dagger75]

I think the 3E books are rigged to erase the pages and wipe all the information from your brain if you don't have the 3.5 books 1 month after they are released.

 

[Moe Ronalds]

Re: Put me down for 1 of each

Maybe not the second they come out, but hey Amazon usually discounts D&D at least 20%, I know Im gonna have $60-70, why arent you?

Technik

No one around here wants to take the "risk" of hiring anyone younger than 16. That's why.

 

[Pylar]

Need'n a fix

*ties the rubber hose around his arm* New books...need new books..*pant pant pant*...