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4e underselling 3e

Started by Balbinus, December 02, 2008, 11:03:15 AM

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Another thing that may be influencing 4e sales is the sunset clause on the d20 license.

I enjoy both 3e and 4e, and may even prefer the latter, yet most of my gaming dollars are currently going into grabbing all the cool d20 stuff that will soon be unavailable or hard to find. Sure I could grab keep on the Shadowfel at the game store, but that module will be available for quite a while yet, while the 3.5 Dungeon Crawl Classics are far cheaper, going out of print, and disappearing fast (PDFs are just $2 now on RPGnow.com).

I would probably be buying more 4e stuff, but the third party product support has been slow and offers little of interest to me and I continually find myself rushing to snag the d20 books I always wanted to pick up but never did before.

Anecdotal evidence at best, but it will be interesting to see if 4e sales will pick up once cheap 3.5 books are no longer flooding the market.

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