D&D 5E When do you expect that we will start seeing the 2nd printings of the 3 core books?

[painted_klown]

Hello all,

With the popularity of 5E, and the 3 core books doing seemingly very well on Amazon, I would venture to guess they are selling fairly well at all oulets they are available.

Not knowing, I would think that WOTC has a set # of books they printed for the first run, and once they are sold, then they're sold. That would lead to the next printing being set up for the 2nd run of the books. Truthfully, I'm not sure if they have an equal amount of books being published for all three, or of there is a bump in the # of PHB's being printed, as they expect to sell more of them than the other two.

I have seen the PHB and the DMG being sold out at various outlets online at different times, so it does make me wonder if WOTC are about ready to a 2nd printing, or if the vendor simply underestimated the popularity of the books.

For example, Amazon is sold out of DMG's at the moment (additionally, them and wal-mart raised the price of the PHB within days of each other), and the place I ordered my PHB and MM from, now only have the MM in stock (and at an increased price from when I purchased).

What say you?

 

[halfling rogue]

Would it be fair to assume that they would include any updated errata with a 2nd print? I'm currently getting by just fine using the Basic document, but at some point I plan on purchasing the core 3, and it's possible I won't buy until there is another printing. I haven't heard of any glaring errors (aside from some book construction) and I'm not waiting for updated errata to pull the trigger, Im just curious.

 

[TerraDave]

I think they have confirmed that there have already been several printings.

I think the question is a revision with errata. In the past, some D&D books have got errata, and some have not.

At this stage I don't expect anything huge...but could be wrong. I think they are supposed to putting up some errata shortly.

 

[Blue]

Since they haven't published any official errata yet, I wouldn't expect an errata'd printed edition anytime soon. Even if after publishing it online they jump and make the changes for print without waiting on feedback or more errors, you're looking at time to change plus fix layout, then wait for another printing, then distribution through channels which may still have earlier printings to distribute. A raw guess without any knowledge to back it up would be 4-6 months minimum before it shows up at your FLGS or large online bookseller.

 

[Mistwell]

I think they are on printing 4 already?

 

[painted_klown]

I think they are on printing 4 already?

Is there a way to know what printing of the books we have? I looked on the inside of my PHB and MM and they say something to the effect of "1st printing MONTH, YEAR" but I'm not sure if that means they are the 1st printing, or I am just not looking in the correct spot.

 

[Zaran]

I think if they do any errata incorporated printings it will be after the surveys that are supposed to come out this year asking us what worked and what didn't. I'm all for this idea and would gladly buy my books again after a year of errata.

 

[painted_klown]

I think if they do any errata incorporated printings it will be after the surveys that are supposed to come out this year asking us what worked and what didn't. I'm all for this idea and would gladly buy my books again after a year of errata.

I was under the impression that errata was updated with every subsequent printing. Is that not the case? Is it generally built up over a period of time, then changed when the feel the time is right?

Please forgive my ignorance about all of this stuff, but I am not sure how these types of things take place.

 

[Zaran]

I was under the impression that errata was updated with every subsequent printing. Is that not the case? Is it generally built up over a period of time, then changed when the feel the time is right?

Please forgive my ignorance about all of this stuff, but I am not sure how these types of things take place.

Last edition they didn't print any errata. They only had pages and pages of PDFs. A lot of people felt like they couldn't sell out of the 4e books they printed so couldn't justify putting in errata. Instead they came out with essentials with errataed rules.

 

[Rabulias]

Is there a way to know what printing of the books we have?

Look on the Credits page of the book, just below where you see "First Printing" and the date, and there should be a row of numbers descending from 9. The lowest number in the row should indicate the printing.