D&D 4E Is liking 4E biased by how many books you own?

Abstraction said:
Is liking 4E biased by how many books you own?

There are two kinds of gamers: People who like "core systems" & people who like lots of supplements.

To people who like core systems, a new edition is great. It (typically) means they now have access to the best of that supplemental stuff they skipped.

To people who like lots of supplements, a new edition is great. It means they'll finally complete their collection & things will calm down for a bit. They'll ignore the new edition until it gets established with a healthy number of supplements.

The problem is if you're a lots of supplements person who doesn't realize that no one is expecting you to switch to the new edition anytime soon. (If ever.)

OK, I lied. There are three types of gamers. The third group is the huge majority for which this "number of books" issue is insignificant. (^_^)
 

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I have a modest investment in 3.5 books. From here I count 12 hardcovers, a stack of adventures and a large stack of Dragon & Dungeon magazines.

And yet I would say that I'm optimistic about 4e.

I sold my 3.0 material pretty easily back in 2003. I think I'll keep 'em this time around.
 

I have like 5 dozen 3.xx WotC books and I'm looking forward to 4E.

Having said that, I have a friend who is disgruntled at 4E and saying that he's invested a lot of money in the 3E books (although among the gaming group I have the biggest collection).
 

I own less than a dozen books (WOTC and 3rd party combined) and so far I have been very disappointed with nearly everythng that has been revealed to date about 4e.
 

I'm actually finding myself hoping for more mechanics because everytime I hear something about the fluff, it's usually something that makes me smack my head and go, "Well, that's not my D&D." and that ranges from assumptions about how the planes work, updating Forgotten Realms, the changes to demons and devils, and now the death knight.

More mechanical details are going to be needed before I make up my mind.
 



I have all the Eberron books published for 3.x, all the FR books published for 3.x minus a few adventures, and 90% of all 3.x books put out by WoTC. I'm at work now, so I'm not exactly sure how many that equates to off the top of my head, but I'm guessing pushing 60ish.

That said, I'm looking forward to 4.0 core and Eberron. The Realms has me slightly worried, though I intend to give it a fair shake.
 

I have a large collection of 3.0 & 3.5. Plus third party stuff. D&D alone (all the editions I own) takes up two 5 shelf bookcases. The rest of the gaming library is just as large.

I look forward to 4e.

Though this time I will probably stay core for once (Core rule books, core FR, core Eberron, etc).
 

I have around 70 3.0 and 3.5 books, mostly WotC stuff but some 3rd party stuff. That's just D&D and d20 fantasy.

I also own every single M&M product ever released for 1e and 2e. I also own every single Spycraft 1e and 2.0 book ever released (including all the Shadowforce Archer books). I also own every single d20 SW book ever released by WotC including SW Saga.

All of that probably pushes my d20 collection close to 200 books, but obviously D&D is only a part of that. Probably around $5000 worth of stuff.

As far as other RPGs well let me tell you, I own a lot. I own an additional $4000 worth of old TSR 1e and 2e D&D stuff, almost every single FR boxed set ever released, every single Dark Sun product ever released, numerous hardbounds and Complete books, every Al-Qadim product, a lot of Planescape and SpellJammer, etc.

I own every WEG SW hardbound ever released. I have several Exalted 2e books. I own the entire WW Street Fighter line (out of print and very cool).

I own every HERO 5e book published prior to about June 2006 and a lot of HERO 4e books too. I have a lot of rare stuff too, like every Mekton Z book, the original Cyberpunk 2020 RPG, the aforementioned Street Fighter RPG, etc.

I used to own every Palladium book published up through the year 2000 (every RIFTS book, Robotech, TMNT, you name it). At the time it composed about a third of my collection. But I sold all the Palladium stuff. Strangely, those are the only books I have ever sold. I have kept everything else.

Even with all the Palladium stuff gone, I expect my collection would still add up to well over $20,000 worth of stuff collected over the past 20 years. All of my friends tell me they have never seen an RPG collection as vast as mine. And thats them just looking at the d20 stuff on my bookshelf. When I point to all the boxes of old stuff sitting in my garage, their eyes pop out.

And I am eagerly awaiting 4e.
 
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