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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9431151" data-attributes="member: 86653">I've been through that a few times. Holding on to an older edition when the new one comes along. Here's a bit of what I've learned.As the new books start coming out the old books will go on deeper and deeper discounts. Buy at least one copy of every book you want for the line when the discount is close enough for you. Then buy as many of the books you might want when the discount is deep enough. After the new books come out and the old stock dries up, the prices will increase. They will just keep increasing as the years go on. They might stabilize somewhere reasonable considering just how many 5E books were printed, but there's no way to know for sure.Buy multiple copies of the high use books. PHBs, MMs, DMGs, maybe Xanathar's and Tasha's. The longer you keep using them the more they will wear out. Picking them up on deep discount and storing them until you need them is way better than being forced to pick copies up on the secondary market.There are so many books from prior editions I didn't pick up and now most of them are ridiculously expensive second hand. Hoping to get a lucky break is not a great plan. Most books from prior editions are available as PDFs on DriveThruRPG, so that's a much cheaper way to go. Here's to hoping WotC will release the 2014 books as PDFs before long.If you already have a group, maintain it. Reach out and keep in contact with people who feel the same. Especially if you don't like online play. As the years go by, fewer and fewer people will be interested in playing your chosen edition. You're probably fine because 5E was one of two pop-culture fad moments D&D has had, the other being AD&D. It's super easy to find AD&D players even now. That's likely to be true of 5E in future as well.Don't rely on anyone else's maintenance of servers, websites, storefronts, etc to play the game. Sites close, licenses are lost, files deleted, etc. If you don't have the physical product or the digital files in hand then you can be cut off from the game. You don't want that.</blockquote>

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