And Paizo weren't following in the footsteps of a lot of other premium products? (Including several from WotC?)
OD&D November 2013--Deluxe OD&D Reprint (White Box + Supplements I-IV)
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And Paizo weren't following in the footsteps of a lot of other premium products? (Including several from WotC?)
Knightfall
World of Kulan DM
I'd buy both.
The price is - sadly - likely fair, especially if Wizards want to make money back from the product. It's just such a small market for it. It loses horribly on economies of scale, and it's a real risk for the distributors and retailers who stock it.
I'm going to have a hard time resisting this, even though I have copies of all the original booklets.
delericho
Legend
I recently picked up a copy of the "Rules Cyclopedia" from eBay, at which point I thought there wasn't anything they could reprint that I'd actually want.
And yet, this is appealing...
The price is fairly shocking, especially for something I would never actually use, and I don't really have any great nostalgia for OD&D, having never played it. Plus, it contains dice, so it's most definitely a game, so add 20% VAT to the price...
On the other hand, if we count both this month and November, there are 10 months between now and then, and I can afford to spare the equivalent of $20 each month. So I guess I'm a maybe.
And yet, this is appealing...
The price is fairly shocking, especially for something I would never actually use, and I don't really have any great nostalgia for OD&D, having never played it. Plus, it contains dice, so it's most definitely a game, so add 20% VAT to the price...
On the other hand, if we count both this month and November, there are 10 months between now and then, and I can afford to spare the equivalent of $20 each month. So I guess I'm a maybe.
Yeah, it's the shipping I'm curious about (especially after the recent $60 for an issue of Gygax Magazine scenario!) -- I'd love to buy this, though. We'll see!
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
This (though I'm not sure what the "outdoor survival map" is).
Dreamscape
Crafter of fine role-playing games
Outdoor Survival was a boardgame with a wilderness hex map that OD&D referred to for use in wilderness hex crawl adventures. That would be nice - but they really should have included Chainmail and S&S. The price of the booklets has to be a pretty small proportion of this package.
Still, any way I look at it, it's great to see the oldest books back in print. That means nothing is impossible now - B/X, please! And Holmes, blue book and UK (Fangorn art) editions!
delericho
Legend
You know, the super-deluxe small-run thing hardly originated with Paizo. Monte Cook beat them to it by some way with "Ptolus", as did Goodman with "Castle Whiterock", and they're not alone. And, of course, other industries have done the same thing for years.
But in any case, why would it matter even if they did get the idea from Paizo? If it's a good idea, it's a good idea to copy. And let's make no mistake - Paizo do an awful lot right. If the net result is that we get a wider range of good products to choose from, isn't that an unquestionable good thing?
Jester David
Hero
I don't think so. There wasn't enough time between the announcement of the premium reprints and the previews of the RotRL books.
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