If [insert company here] produced a collectors edition...

[Maggan]

Maybe, maybe not

The question being asked here is that if WotC (or someone else with their permission) were to compile sets of edition books and reprint them as a collector's item, with high quality hard covers and reproduced art, beautiful layout, indices, etc. would you buy them?

If someone would collect D&D BECM (without I) and use the Elmore art from the boxed sets, I'd buy it.

I wouldn't buy a reprint of AD&D. I would buy a of copy of a James Bond 007 Collectors Edition, as well as a reprint of the original Call of Cthulhu games. Hmmmm ...

I would be more likely to pick up Collector's Editions of classic adventures, though. Like Masks of Nyarlathotep for CoC, Enemy Within for WFRP, Desert of Desolation for AD&D. Yeah, that's more my cup of tea.

/M

 

[scruffygrognard]

I'd buy reprints of classic AD&D books and modules in a heartbeat, so long as they aren't tinkered with too much. Proper indexes and the inclusion of errata would be great but I wouldn't want other changes.

 

[Aus_Snow]

All those old books? They still work just fine.

And if they don't, there's always eBay, Amazon, Noble Knight, forums like this one or Dragonsfoot (etc.) . . . and so on.

The only one I'm rather annoyed about, to put it mildly, is OD&D (the original, 1974 edition) - the PDFs are no longer available, so it's the only one that would be hideously expensive to pick up, *now*. Luckily for me, I'd already downloaded my copy of the PDF before all were taken down from RPGNow and DTRPG.

But anyway, would I buy such a thing? Not from WotC. Maybe, from another company - UNlicensed, that is. And it would depend on a whole lot of other factors.

 

[Jack99]

But anyway, would I buy such a thing? Not from WotC. Maybe, from another company - UNlicensed, that is. And it would depend on a whole lot of other factors.

You really don't like WotC, huh? What happened?

Re: OP - I would buy all editions up to and including 2e.

 

[billd91]

I'm not much into collector's editions as far as premium items. I may collect, but I generally collect to use, read, whatever. I may want to fill in collections where I have gaps, but it's not to have the items as much as to use the items.
Compilations like the Classic Traveller bound editions from a several years ago, I would certainly consider. PDFs or CDs of complete works I would also consider (though I prefer print editions for convenient reading).

 

[Mythmere1]

I would buy a market-priced edition of the original D&D (1974-1978) books, but I wouldn't want to pay a "collector's premium." I'd be buying them for use in play, and I'd like a set that didn't cost me $200 to assemble.

I probably wouldn't buy an AD&D set - I have those and I can still buy more on ebay or amazon. Eventually, the supply will dry up, and although I have a few copies of each book, I might consider it a few years down the road.

2e, no.

 

[Grimstaff]

A new print of the Moldvay/Cook B/X books, complete with Keep on the Borderlands and Isle of Dread, all in a nice box with cheap dice and white crayon, would be a must-have for me.

 

[Aus_Snow]

You really don't like WotC, huh? What happened?

That's true - I no longer do. Several (subjectively major, and definitely public) things happened, in a row, in the span of barely more than a single year. But anyway, I'm *not* going to go into detail about all that stuff, yet again. I imagine it wouldn't be taken very well around here, to say the least.

There are certain companies I won't buy from; they're by far not the only one. Nor the absolute worst of them, at all. And on a personal level, I don't feel negatively about the majority of the workers at WotC. In fact, I wouldn't even know the name of most of them, for starters! So yeah, it's (for the most part) nothing personal. Just one of many ongoing purchasing decisions, much as many folks might make.

 

[Korgoth]

I'd buy reprints for the sake of having extras, and supporting an effort I actually agree with. I wouldn't buy a big, glossy 'premium' edition with WAR art and useless fripperies.

 

[kitsune9]

This is a follow-on from the thread that was recently raised from the dead:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...snt-wizards-coast-license-older-editions.html

The question being asked here is that if WotC (or someone else with their permission) were to compile sets of edition books and reprint them as a collector's item, with high quality hard covers and reproduced art, beautiful layout, indices, etc. would you buy them?

I think TSR did something similar back in the day with the basic rules, ala the Rules Cyclopedia. The idea would be to compile the core books of an edition, and print as one book. So you'd get the 1e PHB, DMG, MM and perhaps UA and FF all in one very nice and shiny book that was nicely layed out and edited and perhaps with new art (although it could be argued that keeping the old art is part of the charm).

I just find the idea intriguing. I have a lot of 1e and 2e books myself but most are in disrepair from overuse and I'm missing a lot of volumes from them being lost or stolen over the years. I've tried to gather what I can through PDF's but on the whole, I'd much prefer a nice book. So if 'they' were to do this, I'd probably lay down some cash for it myself, even though I'd probably never play those editions again.

I should probably add the question of whether you would buy a basic reprinting of older games, rather than the above concept, just to broaden the topic a bit. That was the original intent of the thread but I got side-tracked

Yeah, I'd go get a collector's edition of the Rules Cyclopedia or 1AD&D if maybe Green Ronin, Necro Games, or Mongoose Publishing did it. My preferred choice would be Green Ronin though. Actually, FFG could do it too.