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

[Angel Tarragon]

In my case no, hell no. My sentiments about 4E is more of anxiety than anything else; that is I'm a little panicked, fearful and excited. But the excitement is only over certain parts of the game based on what we know so far.

I have a fair portion of WotC books (Close to 80 books) and plan to close the gap between what I don't own majorly by the end of next year. I really don't like to buy used books, and I do buy through Amazon (though if I had a FLGS, I'd shop there instead). Unfortunately I live smack dab in the middle of a Gainey Ranch residential district and there is only one gaming stores withing biking/walking distances, and that is 8 miles away. During the summer, that is killer. And besides of which, only one shelving unit is dedicated to pnp gaming.

EDIT: I also own close to 150 D20/OGL products.

 

[Aeolius]

I own quite a few 3e/3.5e books - I like the current incarnation of D&D. 3.5e still has room for Races of Water, the Hydronomicon, Complete Aquan, and Waterscape.

I didn't like 2e when it came out; consequently I only own a handful of 2e supplements; The Sea Devils, Of Ships & the Sea, and Sea of Fallen Stars come to mind. See a trend, here?

I do not care for 4e, as it has been presented thusfar. Granted, my campaigns are rarely typical dungeon crawls or urban adventures. My bias against 4e has to do with my choice of campaign setting (Greyhawk), OS (Mac OS X), character class (bard), character race (monsters), etc.

 

[Blastin]

I own tons of 3.0 and 4.0 books....as someone mentioned above, probably like 6 feet of shelf space and more money than I care to think about.
When the initial 4E announcement came out, I was of the attitude : I have enough books/modules/material to keep playing 3.5 for literally YEARS, I am NOT switching. If I ran my players through all the Pazio AP's, the recent FR hardback module series, and the Eberron hardback module I could never buy another book for about six and a half years.
Now though, the more that I hear about the changes in the fluff and rules, the more I think I'm gonna Love 4E. I really didn't want to 'cause that means that huge collection is gonna end up in storage next to my 1e and 2e stuff. The more I read about the changes they are making, the more I think I'm gonna switch. We'll see though as we get more solid info.

 

[Aus_Snow]

I own tons of 3.0 and 4.0 books

Neat trick. I see WotC are not the only chronomancers lately. Cool!

 

[Imaro]

My problem isn't the number of books I have, but two-fold. The first is that my favorite setting for D&D is the Iron Kingdoms, and they haven't announced whether they will move to 4e or not. If not that's another strike against 4e for me.

Second I have begun getting into other fantasy roleplaying games, besides D&D and some of them I'm starting to like better than D&D...as far as my 3.5 collection, I've got about 15 to 20 hardcovers plus my IK books, but it's not a major factor in deciding to go with 4e or not.

 

[howandwhy99]

After 4e comes out and my group switches over (likely), I'll sell off all the worthless 3e books I have.

That may be about 1/2-2/3rds of the 400+ books.

Then I'll buy 4e books, but FAR more selectively than before.

And my opinion of such?

3e? I'd rather not run it again at all.
4e? I'm likely going to have to houserule over 1/2 of what they've constructed.

 

[Stormtower]

I have well over 60 WotC hardcovers (3.0 and 3.5) and dozens of DCC and WotC modules to boot as well as Dungeon's 3 adventure paths. Like DaveMage, I am not converting to 4e largely because I've yet to use most of what I've bought. I feel the 3.5/OGL system as it stands - tweaked into a houseruled 3.75 as many have done - is worth my time investment.

I could easily afford to collect 4e stuff just as aggressively as i've done for my 3.5 collection, but I choose not to because I'm delighted with the system as it stands (not perfect, but the crunch & fluff both agree with my groups' styles) and there's too much material - both adventures and new crunch - that we haven't yet explored.

I'm not a FR fan and never have been (Baldur's Gate PC games were my only exposure to FR). We like Eberron but are 75% homebrew with some mods now and then for when I'm in the mood to run published stuff.

I am not precisely "anti-4e" (the strong post-GenCon emotions have passed by now), and I actually wish to see 4e succeed and bring new gamers to the hobby, but I am steadfastly returning to the realm of the grognards, and the size of my book collection DOES have something to do with it.

 

[an_idol_mind]

I've got just the three core books and a handful of modules. While I am not convinced that the sky is falling, I guess I would count as a 4e naysayer simply because right now I'm leaning toward sticking with 3rd edition.

By comparison, I had a ton of 1st and 2nd edition books by the time 3rd edition rolled around, and I gladly ditched the older rules for the new stuff.

For me, it comes down to the fact that it looks like 3rd edition will be a better system for the type of games I want to run. Even if I had every book in the d20 library, I'd be willing to jump ship in a second if I found a game I preferred over the current one.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Heh, that was a pretty good guess, actually. I currently have 110.

In response to the OP, I don't think the quantity of books is a contributing factor for me. The quality of them, though? Yes, certainly. I have no reason to move to another form of D&D, given that the D&D/d20 options open to me right now (and forever more) are so damn good.

 

[resistor]

I probably own about 10 3/3.5e books, plus collected materials (mostly Planescape stuff that I just use for the fluff). So I would say my collection is fairly small, and I don't have much intention of adding to it.

I am, contrary to your hypothesis, a 43 naysayer. I was really excited about the initial announcement, because I really like some of the mechanical changes that happened in SW Saga edition, and I hoped (still do, in fact) that they would be brought over to 4e. What lost me was when they started revealing the unnecessary flavor/fluff changes and the new-each-year core books model. As much as I would like new streamlined mechanics, they're not worth THAT much to me.