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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takasi" data-source="post: 3845484" data-attributes="member: 20194">Has anyone else mentioned that this could be a collectible item?  How many people bought the 30 years of adventure coffee table book?  Whether 4.0 fails or succeeds, the preview books will be keepsakes.  It could also have value from now until 4th edition is out.  It might help DMs prepare their campaigns for next year.  It might also help persuade new players to join and stop older players from leaving.Also, I'm sure there were some people who picked up Dragon magazine in 2000 just for the preview content and had no use for 2nd edition material.  If they were willing to buy at least three of those issues for that purpose then this book is priced right.Also remember that there are more people who don't play D&D than people who do.  And there are many more people who play WoW, read Harry Potter and watch Lord of the Rings and don't play D&D but might.  These people might not know there's a 4th edition coming out.  They may know there's a 3rd edition, but never got into it because they don't want to feel like "n00bs".  With 4th edition, they might want to get in on the "ground floor".   Seeing a book like this might attract them to pick it up so they can be a 4th edition "expert" in their circle of non-D&D playing (but possibly future D&D gaming) friends.Also, let's say the material was not presented online.  At all.  There was no way to get a preview of 4th edition until May 2008 when Keep on the Shadowfell comes out.Going further, let's say no on ever visited EN World or WotC or any other message board to speculate about 4th edition until May 2008.Let's say we valued our leisure time at $1 an hour (low balling).  Just how many man hours total do you think we spend speculating about 4th edition?  What if you weren't allowed to do that anymore?  WotC has the right to close shop and reveal everything to us in May 2008.  No spoilers, no articles.  If someone posts about D&D on a message board with speculation, they are sued.  Extreme draconian measures are made.  And in the end 4th edition still comes out next year and still rocks.Don't you think all this speculation is worth spending $20 on a couple of articles to help WotC get by until 4th edition comes out?  There's quite a sense of entitlement I'm seeing.  As though we hardcore gamers need to know everything.  It's their intellectual property, not ours.</blockquote>

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