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#1 zman123 Jan 26, 2011 13:33:10	Market research is always good, it tells a business what the consumer really wants, so that  they will produce products that will sell well. So let's start by giving Hasbro a dose of market research. Start Now! WILL BUY! Miniatures (Once a year mini release is enough for me) Rerelease of classic adventures for 4E (Temple of Elemental Evil, Tomb of Horrors, Undermountain) Monster Manuals Campaign Settings (Already own Darksun and Forgotten Realms.) Supplement guides (Divine Power, Martial Power, Arcane Power: etc, etc...) Corebook sets D&D insider (provided that the Virtual tabletop is included) Tilesets Treasure Vaults (Canceling Mordenkainen's Emporium was a mistake.) WON'T BUY! Monster Tokens Most Essentials Products (Tilesets are the only exception) Fortune Cards D&D Boardgames (due mainly that they are extremely expensive to purchase and offer limited play.) Powercards MAY PURCHASE! Adventures (provided they are well written and organized.) Adventure Campaign Boxsets  (Same condition apply as last entry)
#2 Osgood Jan 26, 2011 14:13:14	I mostly agree with what you have, but I have a few differences: Tile sets are moved to WON'T BUY (my Dwarven Forge collection beats the snot out of any 2D tile). Boardgames are moved to WILL BUY (I really enjoyed the Ravenloft game, and hope they actually make the Risk-style Nerath game they mentioned last year at Gencon). I picked up the Rules Compendium (which has been moderately useful at the table), but otherwise all Essentials products are firmly under WON'T BUY. All that said, I think WotC should seriously consider commisioning a firm to do some in-depth market research.  Recent descisions have convinced me that they have lost touch with a significant part of their customer base, and their attempts to draw new players (or regain lapsed ones) have been confusing and misguided.  I'm sure that type of market research isn't cheap, but it can pay off in the long run.
#3 Nyarlathotep Jan 26, 2011 14:18:09	I'd put my will buy/won't buy list as exactly the same as the OPs except that I wouldn't completely rule out board games (they make a nice change of pace once in a while), it's just that none so far have appealed to me.  If one did, I'd snap it up.  I remember them mentioning a 'Conquest of Nerath' game.  I don't know if that's still on the menu, but that sounds like the kind of game I might buy.
#4 wrecan Jan 26, 2011 14:21:25	Will buy: Monster Vaults/Manuals/Folios, etc. Location Guides (Shadowfell, Feywild, Hell, etc.) DM Guides Tile Sets Won't buy Anything else.
#5 excalainen Jan 26, 2011 16:42:13	Would purchase: Almost anything done the classic 4e style. Adventures (and preferably for all tiers, not just heroic). Miniatures. Poster maps depicting useful terrain. Cards in fixed packs if they bring something of value to the game. DDI in its former glory. Will not buy: Boardgames. Dungeon Tiles. Tokens. Cards in random boosters. DDI in its current sad state. 5th edition before 2015. Would consider buying: Essentials-style source books if it contains enough material for classic 4e characters as well.
#6 Kalnaur Jan 26, 2011 17:41:26	Would Buy: Books based in the pre-essentials design (Player's Handbooks, Campaign Books, Monster Manuals, Power Books, Flavor Books, etc) Board Games Would not Buy: Any product that has the sub-class design only (HotFL, etc) Boxed Products (Monster Vaults, Shadowfell, Etc) DDi Any Collectible Card Game D&D accessory Might Eventually Buy: Tiles (Or I might Just make my Own) Stand-Alone Tokens (Ditto) Rules Compendium
#7 Mock Jan 26, 2011 17:48:57	Would: Stuff I like. This statement intentionally vague. However... Won't: Almost any book that isn't a setting. And maybe not then. I've got three PHBs, 3 MMs, 2 DMGs, 5 Essentials books, and a frillion other 4E books. I'm done. Tilesets Miniatures Tokens DDI Adventures
#8 Lathrin Jan 26, 2011 18:00:46	Will buy... All Essentials products (Class books, tiles, box sets, seperate tokens, etc.) Setting specific products (Shadowfell, NwN, Feywild, etc.) Won't buy... Any D&D board games Fortune cards Any product that focuses on Obsolete 4E (pre-Essentials) design
#9 askanipsion Jan 26, 2011 18:04:38	Won't buy: 1) Boardgames 2) Pog Tokens 3) DDI (unless there is a complete over-haul with playtests & GOOD previews) 4) Any Collectible Card Game Acessory (like Power Cards) 5) 5th edition until 2015 6) WOTC Plastic minis (they had AWFUL paint jobs - my cat could paint them better!) 7) Raven Queen/Shar stuff - enough already with these 2 deities!!  - give the other gods some more exposure 8) Gamma World Will buy: 1) More Power books (Shadow Power, Arcane Power 2, Psionic Power 2- but it better have Telepathy/Mind Reading/Psi-crystals!) 2) Non-Drizzt drow novels (enough of the Drizzt!) 3) Themes! LOVE them! Should have been used in the beginning instead of the awful "feat munching" multi-class rules 4) FR Deity book (with paragon paths/Channel Divinity powers for the FR gods including the evil ones!) 5) Deluxe miniatures (like they had for Orcus - I want a Lolth one! - a Tiamat one would be cool too)
#10 grehnhewe Jan 26, 2011 18:18:47	Will buy:   Monster Manuals   DM Guides   PHBs   Campaign Settings   Environment Books (Feywild, Shadowfell etc.)   Miniatures   Last Gamma World expansion   Products that mix AEDU and Essentials   4e Modern/Future etc. Will not buy:   Tokens   Tile Sets   Fortune Cards   DnD with CCG element (I do not mind it for Gamma World)   Pdfs instead of books   DDi without the CB and MB ever being fixed   Another board game (although I like Ravenloft.)   Odd-sized, soft-cover DnD books
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS EXPERIENCE 2011 Obvious_Ninja Jan 27, 2011 10:54:04	First I'd do: I'd love to buy but can't: Mordenkainen's Emporium HEROES OF LEGEND: CLASS COMPENDIUM PLAYER’S OPTION: CHAMPIONS OF THE HEROIC TIER (Themes!!! Come on!!!) Will buy: Heros of Shadow Miniature Special sets ie Orccus and the Beholder sets... (I still use mostly metal minis) Rerelease of classic adventures for 4E (Temple of Elemental Evil, Tomb of Horrors, Undermountain) Monster Manuals-- THough I really like the monster vaults! Campaign Settings-- RAVENLOFT I'm really looking forward to this one!!! Psionic Power 2, Primal Power 2, Divine Power 2, Arcane Power 2... D&D insider (provided that the Virtual tabletop is included) Tilesets A big book on Skill Challenges!!! Guardmoor Abby(sp?) Shadowfell, Fey Wild, etc... There's no real, Won't Buy. There's more of a Maybe Buy, I'll play it by ear: The boardgames I like for the minis and the tiles. Adventures I buy, based on the theme(I'd like more RP moments in th published adventures and less Monster Hotels!) I'll be curious to see what anouncements they make at DUNGEONS & DRAGONS EXPERIENCE 2011
#12 modern_iconoclast Jan 27, 2011 12:17:14	If I limit myself to the product catalog (at least what's on it right now), I will buy the Dungeon Tiles and that's pretty much it. I won't buy anything with soft covers, half-sized, or containing mostly reprints of contents from a book in the same line, or anything digital. I like my D&D pen&paper style, but that's me. Honestly, I think I have enough 4e books right now (I have Ph1-2-3, DP, AP, MP, PP, PsP, AV1, FRCS, FRPG, DSCS, DSCC) and I don't think I need any new 4e book. I will wait a bit for the next edition. I have all I need to play 4e and have fun sessions.
#13 hunterian7 Jan 27, 2011 12:24:28	Will Buy: Monster Vaults Board Games Games like Gamma World Adventures Will Not Buy: Might cancel DDi subscription. Not having a compiled magazine blows.
#14 Dragon9 Jan 27, 2011 23:54:25	Won't Buy: anything Essentials Will Buy: not much left after the won't buy.
#15 fayelampshire Jan 28, 2011 16:33:06	Crumbs, I'm not sure. If there was a book with more stuff for seekers in, I'd consider it. If there was a book that supported the various humanoid types (orcs, goblins, gnolls, etc...) as PCs, I'd consider it. If there was a book that had some new and interesting classes, I'd consider it. I'm not interested in. Minis. DDI Collectable cards Campaign settings Tiles or maps. The reason why I'd only 'consider' buying stuff, is that unless it's really good, I can always homebrew stuff like that.
#16 tsukinousagi Jan 29, 2011 7:37:32	Would consider Better tokens (because the first batch while ok, are not something I will buy in volume). Better = more visually easy to employ images. Currently leaning towards supporting Fiery Dragon. More Dungeon Delves Hardcovers, because a 1-30 level assortment of adventures I can use. It's not like there are no options to work with. And it wouldn't hurt sales of their Tiles sets to have things in print that actually needed them eh. Listening marketing? When you consider I already have 3 players, the DMG, 2 Monster Manuals numerous setting books Monster Vault, DM kit, and round one's modules, there is not much Wizards can sell me I bloody well need. So my Won't Buy list is likely every last item you can think up or on this list not in my post. Next step as I see it, is to pull their finger out of their butts and make the VTT table show up so those of us that might consider playing via internet can choose that choice. Something tells me though, they will screw the pooch on this. I likely should master someone else's independent design if I need it.
#17 sfdragon Jan 29, 2011 7:55:41	will buy release of 4e upgrades to old modules more forgotten realms stuff few other sttuff metal.raldium minis( really don't like plastic ones) wont buy board games any more card games
#18 Duskweaver Jan 29, 2011 8:27:29	Will buy: Books of monsters - but only if they have lots of good fluff and awesome art. X Power books - especially if they contain good fluff (like Primal Power) as well as the crunch. Heroes of X books - assuming they're like a combination PHBn / X Power book, and provided they contain crunch that's useable by pre-Essentials characters. Tilesets - as long as they offer terrain I will actually use often ('yes' to deserts, mountain/rocky badlands and Egyptian-looking tombs and ruins, 'no' to icy wastelands, temperate forests and generic mediaeval European towns). Monster tokens - assuming the art is awesome. Location guides and books in the style of Open Grave and Demonomicon. Won't buy: Miniatures - especially prepainted ones that look like they were done by a five-year-old. Adventures - I'd rather write these myself, thanks. Books of magic items - DDi is a far more convenient source. Campaign settings - unless they also contain crunch (new races or classes) I really want. Books that merely reprint stuff from other books I already own, but in the new Essentials format. CCG elements - or, really, any cards at all. Boardgames - These are 20% more expensive than books in my country thanks to our tax system. A new edition, probably ever - I like 4e just fine, with or without Essentials, and see no need to change. Any Gamma World stuff, ever - just not my style.
#19 dyser Jan 29, 2011 9:50:31	Would probably buy: A FEW 4E Classic supplement guides spaced out and high-quality.  (Power, Vault, etc.)  I'd suggest a quarterly supplement that gives us some of the treatment of the Power Books, magic items, monsters and so forth... a smaller, more rules-focused PHB-style installment built around themed concepts.  You were right that you could only go on so long releasing a new core book set every year as well as power and vault books to go along with it in massive quantities.  The "Evergreen" idea was not the way to go, though.  There's a limited market and once that market is saturated your Evergreen product just sits on shelves in stores.  You should have started putting the content in quarterly Power-book sized supplements with a minimum of fluff instead. A Themes (the Dark Sun mechanic) book in non-Essentials format with non-Essentials-specific content that can be used by any 4E player regardless of how many 'E's come after their '4.' Tiles - quality and usefulness dependent. Things that are progressive rather than regressive rules-wise that don't reprint or repackage stuff I already bought or only feature subclasses.   I don't want to return to level-based class features, I don't want to return to fighters without at-will, encounter and daily powers, etc.  I rather liked that 4th Edition was a move forward and wasn't afraid to sacrifice a few sacred cows if it seemed to make things better.  The Pathfinder people aren't coming back for a cuddle, no matter how retro you make things seem.  It doesn't seem to be working. Non-randomized miniatures in themed packages ready to plop down into one of my adventures.  For example, a goblin village with some tiles, or a gnoll keep with some 3D constructable tiles, or a kobold horde with a double-sided high quality map.  See comments on randomized miniatures below. Would most definitely not buy: Essentials format books.  I like something that feels solid, sturdy and permanent. Repackaged, re-presented, or reprinted material that has already been released for this edition. Rules and supplementary material that is spread out piecemeal among many products.  Be careful how release already developed materials "elsewhere."  Which plays into the next one... An entire product for one chapter or less worth of material I'm interested in. Subclasses.  Essentials style classes. Fortune Cards Anything before it is reviewed or researched, so that I can be sure of what it really is and its quality.  We may not stop buying in this recession, but I think buyers are going to be less impulsive and more discerning.  There are a lot of options out there.  Hype is not going to be enough.  If you release an inferior product, it will be on the Internet, probably before the street release date. Probably Won't Buy: WotC Board Games.  Sorry, there are so many choices out there for these, they're fairly expensive and unless it's something really amazing, most people only need a few.  I'd rather buy stuff for Runebound, Descent, Arkham Horror, Talisman or something similar - packed to the gills with quality components instead of vast, empty box spaces and flimsy materials.  If you want to fill the fantasy and sci-fi gamer niche of board games, I think you should look less toward parent company Hasbro, makers of Clue, Monopoly, and Sorry! and more toward companies like Fantasy Flight Games, makers of the fan-favorite games mentioned above.  Also, it should be something that really, truly does feature some new and interesting gameplay features (or it shouldn't say that it does)... it's hard to take you seriously when your previews have such phrases as "breakthrough in design" and I can look at a shelf of other games that do the same thing.  Randomized Miniatures "Booster Packs" - Sorry, guys!  If I go out to buy some miniatures for my games, it's because I need something specific to depict a village of goblins, the positions of the specific monster I'm using in a dungeon, etc.  Randomized doesn't work for me or anyone I know in terms of miniatures for tabletop roleplaying.  It kind-of works for miniatures games like HeroClix, where what miniatures you have is the whole point of the game.  It DOES NOT work for people who are buying miniatures for roleplaying games.  What would work are some non-random creature packages.  Give us a Goblin Village mini and tile set in a box.  Give us a Kobold Horde dungeon map and minis.  Something we can use for the adventures in mind, rather than, "Huh.  I got a rust monster.  Too bad they don't exist in this setting." What isn't working: Your entire approach from August 2010 to present. For comparison, what I am buying or want to buy for the lack of a D&D lineup I like: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay boxed sets.  I was very impressed with the core set I got for a friend this Christmas.  Critics have said that they made the RPG a board game, but really what they've done is effectively moved some of the game mechanics out of the books and into game tools.  Unlike Fortune Cards, which seeks to add a new game element as a tool which just adds to the game's bloat for its own sake. I may be rounding out my collection of Mage: the Awakening and nWoD books... hardcover, visually appealing, something I can just enjoy holding, reading, and looking at. Probably a board game from the above-mentioned FFG's line of component-packed quality games. Mutants and Masterminds 3rd Edition stuff:  When they release a new edition or an expansion, there actually is progressive innovation.  They don't back down from advancements in rules systems, the game keeps evolving.  It does't devolve if sales aren't where it is thought they should be, instead it keeps moving forward and gives us something new.
#20 Hippolyte Jan 29, 2011 20:27:04	WILL BUY! Miniatures (in rational collections however) Adventure Paths for 4E (Eberron, Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Nerath, Forgotten Realms) Monster Manuals Campaign Settings (Dragonlance, but I want at least one more book for each of the 3 settings we have now) Location books (Feywild, Primordials, Spell Plague, Far Realm, Shadowfell, Dreaming, Dalkyrr, Rakshasas) Supplement guides (Divine Power, Arcane Power, Primal Power) Players' Handbooks IV, V (for neglected races and also for THEMES for non-Dark Sun) Heroes of Sword and Spell essential-crossover Dungeon Master's Guide IV (epic, boons, rarity list, firearms, kingdom rules) D&D Insider Tilesets Treasure Vaults, including Eberron shard augments and Dark Sun boons (Canceling Mordenkainen's Emporium was a mistake.) WON'T BUY! Martial Power III Strategy or Roleplaying Guides Monster Tokens Fortune Cards (power creep, endless money sink) D&D Boardgames Powercards
#21 Silver_Blaze Jan 29, 2011 21:58:41	Will Buy: *****4E Dragonlance Campaign Setting***** Neverwinter Campaign Setting (for the Bladesinger mostly) A Campaign Setting for Eberron that focuses on Stormreach (Essentials Artificer, please!) A book with more domains for the warpriest (one for each god from the core pantheon as well as what domains the gods from FR, Eberron, or Dragonlance represent) and schools for the mage (Transmutation especially, more elemental schools like Electromancy, Cryomancy, etc.).  Heck, add in the other seasons for the Sentinel, more Virtues for the Cavalier, and Pacts for the Hexblade and I will be on Cloud 9. Heroes of Shadow and Heroes of the Feywild (Please put in a Int Con/Cha Gnome in it) A book with themes for all campaign settings. Rules for Multiclassing Essentials and Non-Essentials classes. Dungeon tiles for a variety of terrains (give us some mountain ones among others, the IWD tiles were a godsend). New Dragonlance Novels More Monster Vaults A Magic Item book 4E Modern Transformers RPG on the order of the Gamma World RPG (I would die happy) A 4E video game for consoles (think Dragon Age, only 4E D&D) Tokens (kinda covered by the monster vaults, but heck, if they had them available separate too I would be happy) Will Not Buy: Anything Dark Sun (sorry, just don't care for it) Any other campaign setting books not in the Will Buy column Fortune Cards (If I wanted to play MtG, I would play MtG) Anything that attempts to combine Magic the Gathering with D&D, be it a Campaign Setting or anything else). Any more Power Books for Martial (really, not any Power book at all, but I would be open to a Arcane Power 2 and that is about it) Anything that focuses on Psionics D&D Insider (unless they get the magazine content up to snuff and make the character builder work better) Will not buy Miniatures ever again (tokens are so much better!) Adventures (unless they are consistently to the standard of the Slaying Stone) Books like Manual of the Planes, Open Grave, etc. (just not interested). But if there was one product from each category that is a 100% certainty, I would definitely buy a 4E Dragonlance Campaign Setting in a heart beat, and I would never touch a book that combines MtG with D&D. EDIT: Something weird is going on with the formatting.
#22 zman123 Jan 30, 2011 22:46:34	Silver_Blaze, I really didn't think that the Slaying Stone module was all that good. The layout was disorganized and there was too much page turning involved. The Keep on the Shadowfell was so much better in many different ways and so were most of the earlier 4E adventure modules, before they had suddenly changed their format. The Tomb of Horrors was the best 4E module released so far, and I can't wait to run it. Furthermore, I'm sick and tired of fighting kobolds and goblins in first level adventures. Perhaps a new creature type needs to be created in order to keep first level adventures fresh and exciting.
#23 Silver_Blaze Jan 31, 2011 0:18:59	Silver_Blaze, I really didn't think that the Slaying Stone module was all that good. The layout was disorganized and there was too much page turning involved. The Keep on the Shadowfell was so much better in many different ways and so were most of the earlier 4E adventure modules, before they had suddenly changed their format. The Tomb of Horrors was the best 4E module released so far, and I can't wait to run it. Furthermore, I'm sick and tired of fighting kobolds and goblins in first level adventures. Perhaps a new creature type needs to be created in order to keep first level adventures fresh and exciting. Like I said, I honestly could care less about the adventures in the first place.  But to each their own on them, I really liked the Slaying Stone (a lot of people consider it the gold standard). I agree with the fact that kobolds and goblins are overused.  I don't think we need new creatures, just lower level versions of things like orcs and whatnot so we don't have to continually be bombarded goblins and kobolds.  I need to look into the Tomb of Horrors, I have always heard funny stories regarding it. Either way, give me my Dragonlance, WotC, and I will be happy.
#24 SaltyFish Jan 31, 2011 11:57:11	Will Buy:  - 4e Mystara campaign setting  - 4e video game in the style of Neverwinter Nights, Dragon Age, or a turn-based tactical simulaiton game. Please get the rights back from Atari if you haven't!  - Neverwinter campaign book  - More support for neglected stuff such as Changeling, Seeker, certain weapon categories (maces, picks, and staves anyone?)  - Content for evil deities  - Dungeon tiles for less common terrain (what Duskweaver said)  - Monster Manuals  - Power supplement books (Primal Power, Arcane Power, etc.)  - Essentials. I'm liking what I'm seeing so far; I expect hybrid and multiclass to come soon, but please give us some more options at level-up and seperate the PPs and EDs. Might Buy:  - Miniatures. My group generally uses a combination of homemade and store-bought minis but we would consider buying more minis if the price was lower or the quality was higher. That and less randomization please.  - Background books like Manual of the Planes and Draconomicon, depending on the quality.  - Adventure modules, again, depending on quality. Won't Buy:  - Fortune cards. Too much power-creep and blatant money grab.  - DDi in its current state. The one player in our group who gave it a try was not impressed.  - Power cards and tokens. We prefer minis and our homemade cards and tokens.  - Strategy and RP guides. Not interested. Campaign books are dependent on whomever in our group likes it, buys it, and can get the rest of the group to play it. I want Mystara and Neverwinter. No one in our group feels too strongly about the whole "Pre-E vs. Post-E" war. We liked some stuff that post-E brought upon but we also liked some stuff from pre-E that we wished that post-E would've kept. Exactly what they are varies by player though. Can't say much about novels as it's not brought up much at the gaming table, but I do have Gauntlgrym. And on a side note, if you're going to add more Fighter support (and I know you will!), please consider negelected weapon groups.
#25 tigger11 Jan 31, 2011 14:20:00	My group and I were looking at the list yesterday, and are just not sure what they are thinking.   Last year I spent almost $700 on WOTC products (not including novels), more then that if we throw in the Minatures (Orcus, Beholders, etc), my group spent well over $3K.   We look at the list for this year and if I buy everything at retail its $260, my group is looking at about $800 in items, and I'm wondering whose plan is it to sell 1/4 as much stuff to the current customers.    Membership in DDI has got to be going down, given the posts/taglines on the board on the board about not being a member, I'm a member, and one other of us, but thats a 50% reduction from where we were with the group a year ago, and if they really follow through with not collecting the mags together as a unit, I know the other member is gone, he has a bunch of the magazines loaded on his Ipad, putting 9 or so articles instead of an issue is not really much easier despite WOTCs story to the contrary.   I mean 4 months without a D&D product is a little crazy, and honestly except for us DMs there hasnt been anything from November till April.   We had tiles in December, we had the Icewind tiles for January which were pushed until tomorrow (Feb 1).   We have a DM screen in Feb as well, nothing in March, April we finally get a player item and then the next player item is Novembers Heroes of Feywild.   Neverwinter will probably get some buyers getting it for player options (and shadowfell as well), but I am afraid with the Neverwinter game expected to be delayed from its current Dec 31, 2011 ship date that its tie in book, will be delayed and the BOVD and its syfy movie are both likely candidates for early 2012 now.  But I'm sure I can find something else to spend my money on during March, July and October (ie the other months, there are no new D&D products).
#26 khadgar Jan 31, 2011 15:13:38	I imagine 2011 will not be a shining year for Dungeons and Dragons publications, though there are a few bright spots in the schedule. Fortune cards interest me about as much as a kick in my privates, but I will probably buy them a bit at a time just to support the gaming store I play at. Heroes of Shadow and Heroes of the Feywild also interest me. I'm not sure about the Neverwinter guide. I want to know more about it. Here is to hoping for a better 2012 for D&D. After all, it's the last year any of us will have. LOL.
#27 Phobos Feb 01, 2011 8:16:53	WILL BUY! Monster Tokens D&D insider (provided that the content is updated on book release) Adventures Adventure Campaign Boxsets  (depends on what's included) WON'T BUY! Miniatures Gamma World Tilesets Fortune Cards D&D Boardgames Powercards I have a ton of miniatures, but withe them being shelved, I'm actually looking to sell them off.  I'd buy them if they came in known packs, but I won't by them in randoms. The boardgames look all fine and dandy, I own 3 from Fantasy Flight.  I'ts hard enough to get a game of D&D scheduled weekly, let alone try to also throw in a boardgame.  That however doesn't mean that the boardgames arn't great for folks who maybe don't really play D&D a lot.  The price is too high for me to pick them up for the cards and figures, and frankly with unpainted figures and the end of D&D minis in general, it seems like a dead end.  Now, had they come with tokens (not the cheap ones with different monsters on each side) I'd have considered it. Fortune Cards, sorry not my style.  Unfortunately, I also see they look to "add" these to upcoming D&D Encounters.  Everyone's different.  I won't be GMing. Powercards, um what are these?  If these are the cards they released way back when for each class, then no thanks.  The CB gives these to me for free, with calculations and updates. MAY BUY! Essentials Products Rerelease of classic adventures for 4E Monster Manuals Campaign Settings Supplement guides Corebook sets Treasure Vaults In past history, buying books seems to get me a lot of paper and outdated material.  At this point, because the DDi has no connection to the book itself (ie you don't need the book to get the crunch in the DDi) there is little pull for me to buy books.
#28 The-Magic-Sword Feb 01, 2011 8:41:53	Will Buy- New books containing player options New Books containing traps and monsters Another Dm's Guide for epic tier Anything that gives useful worldbuilding options (like maybe a guide to homebrew rules design) DRAGONLANCE!!!! Won't Buy- Incompatible with (or badly badly balanced with)Pre-Essentials Essentials products Essentials revamps of existings classes (what we have now shoudl be compatible with what we get)
#29 toriel Feb 01, 2011 9:17:09	I decide what I buy on a product by product basis; so I will go through the list of 2011 products and indicate what I will buy: - Heroes of Shadow: I will look at it before deciding. If everything in it is geared towards Essentials, there is very little chance I will get it. - Fortune Cards: No. I would get them instantly if they were not randomized. - Deluxe DM Screen: Yes (I want the updated tables. Hopefully it will include the new damage values.) - Gloomwrought: Yes - Dungeon Tiles (various): Depends on the set. I will not get the winter set but might get the swampy one and the haunted manor. - Madness at Gardmore Abbey: yes -Neverwinter campaign setting: No unless there is something really really cool in it. - Boardgames: Depends on my financial status at the time and on reviews.
#30 Houndstooth Feb 03, 2011 15:03:48	Will Buy Minis - from my FLGS where they open the package and sell them individually Monster Manuals Dungeon Master Guild Anything that adds professions or brings themes to non darksun Campaign Settings (please make a new setting, Im so sick of FR, Nentir Vale Gazzatteer?) Location books - Feywild, Freeport type city book! Tilesets (please slip up the 3D from the 2D, I need more platforms, but have too many kitchens!) Treasure Vaults - if you want to make cards for anything, make them non random for items!!!!!) Gamma World - as long as they keep the quality coming, location crunch, monsters all expanded in cheap     single books  Players Strategy Guide - IF it is about building a lair, Saving for Air Ships, hiring Mercenaries         and Crunch for starting a guild (a great lair article came out the     other day, put that in there) Will NOT Buy Tokens, ever! Power Books - I prefer the character builder to looking in several books at a time Random Cards - Fortune Cards Im looking at you, and anything else like it Power Cards - Again I prefer the Character Builder and my printer Board Games - There are enough great board games out there, I don't need D&D themed ones Players Strategy Guide - If its a bunch of newb tips on taking the toughness feat to become tougher.
#31 malisteen Feb 03, 2011 21:22:17	Specific products: Will Buy - Shadowfell: Gloomwrought and Beyond Won't Buy, or play in games/events where they are used - Fortune Cards   More general stuff: Will Buy - new all-shadow classes, e-style or otherwise (love of shadow > issues with essentials classes) - new pre-e style classes - Support / Splat material for new or under-supported classes - environment-based box sets a la Shadowfell -- especially a Sharn: City of Towers box in the Gloomwrought vein - card decks to add environment-based effects to an encounter - material targeted at paragon/epic tier - themes for core game - character builder / monster builder / game table that runs quickly and without bugs. Won't Buy - Any product that adds an extra minigame to combat - Randomized trading cards - support targeted specifically at heroic tier only - extra support for over-supported classes - new e-style, non-shadow classes (love of shadow > issues with essentials classes) - i-tools that are so sluggish they're practically painful to try and use.
#32 3rdEyeFrog Feb 03, 2011 22:52:01	Will Buy -More D&D Adventure Boardgames(Ravenloft, Ashardalon, Drizzt etc.) -More Forgotten Realms Hardcover RPG books -More Drizzt novels -More fixed mini packs (Beholder set was awesome)
#33 drnick Feb 03, 2011 23:46:05	Will Buy - All of your box sets. ALL OF THEM... I... I think I have a problem. (It's like Christmas every time I bring one of these damn things home) Won't Buy - idk, probably players books since I only seem to DM now.
#34 Darkwolf_Bloodsbane Feb 04, 2011 16:01:49	Will buy: Dunno.  I'll need to see more of HoS to see if i'll actually get use out of it first.  4e.e style classes are forbidden at my table. NEW campaign setings, not rehashes of old ones. Possibly Monster books.  I like those. Won't buy: Anything connected with the Realms, as they've already been done. campaign setting books that are focused on a portion of an already existing 4e setting. Books with new classes when the classes are predominately in 4e.e format. Tiles (we have a map). Minis (Not my thing.  And we already have a mini collector) Any card products.  I stopped playing MTG for a reason.
#35 beolveig Feb 04, 2011 16:33:12	Will buy: Clay/epoxy putty/wire to make my own minis Used 2E/3E products Pathfinder RPG Will not buy: DDI (After having a membership for six months and seeing no improvements, and the demise of          Dragon/Dungeon magazine...seriously don't feel like downloading article by article.) Miniatures (Because you are no longer supporting them...yeah I can buy your crap board games and  use the unpainted minis, or I could make my own and sculpt/paint them better.  Thanks for a new  hobby).  Any more 4e
#36 olfactatron Feb 04, 2011 17:07:50	Will buy: Clay/epoxy putty/wire to make my own minis Used 2E/3E products Pathfinder RPG Will not buy: DDI (After having a membership for six months and seeing no improvements, and the demise of          Dragon/Dungeon magazine...seriously don't feel like downloading article by article.) Miniatures (Because you are no longer supporting them...yeah I can buy your crap board games and  use the unpainted minis, or I could make my own and sculpt/paint them better.  Thanks for a new  hobby).  Any more 4e  Hate to point this out, but you're not exactly the target market.
#37 Tony_Vargas Feb 04, 2011 18:20:43	WILL BUY! Large non-random packs of cheap (unpainted) plastic Miniatures (think Bag o' Zombies, but with a little variety) Quality painted plastic or unpainted pewter individual Miniatures. Monster Manuals  (And I don't mind if there are decent-quality tokens of the monsters) Player's Handbooks with useful/interesting rules, like Themes, for instance. Dungeon Master's Guide with useful/interesting rules, like improved Skill Challenges. Supplement guides (Divine Power, Martial Power, Arcane Power: etc, etc...) Supplements focusing on the Martial Power source, especially if there's a Martial Controller.  ;) irregular D&D insider updates (to get off-line tools like CB or MB, or a few issues of Dragon) Battlemats, poster maps like the ones in Gamma World and Encounters. Condition cards & condition-tracking tokens. Treasure Vaults (Canceling Mordenkainen's Emporium was a mistake.) Complete Cardsets, like Power Cards or 'Plot Cards,' or the DM decks in GW, if well-done and adding something to the game. D&D Boardgames (if they're as good as Castle Ravenloft) Anything Gamma World Genre-based suplements (high seas, steampunk, renaisance, dark fantasy, ancients, 'sword & sand' etc) Other genre games using the basic 4e system.  A 'Modern' game would be particularly welcome. WON'T BUY! Campaign Settings Essentials Products Blind/random card products (Fortune Cards) Blind/random miniatures products Anything else sold blind/random Powercards DDI subscription (if it provides only on-line tools and online-only content) Novels Adventures Adventure Campaign Boxsets  Wastefully-packaged box sets that are 50% empty space and cardboard fillers.  C'mon. I'm no environmentalist, but seriously...
#38 professorgo Feb 04, 2011 19:11:33	Will Buy: Tile Sets, Poster Maps Miniatures...anything really painted/unpainted Pewter/Plastic (just good sculpts) Monster Vaults DDI (I want the rest of DM tools Web based so I could use them) D&D Board Games Super Adventures Another Delve Book D&D Comics Won't Buy: Anything Gama World (NO interest or time) Fortune Cards Campaign Setting Books (Have Both Eberron Books and no time Play in the setting)
#39 halcy Feb 05, 2011 11:55:24	Already Bought: Deluxe DM Screen, Legion of Gold Will Buy: More Monster Vaults - I don't always have time to make standees for my beasties, pog <3 Setting Books - I'll steal from them liberally if I don't feel like using them as intended -=Anything with more Themes in it=- Gloomwrought - I have a multiplanar campaign, DO WANT.  Also, a deck mechanic for the gloomy effects makes going there even more interesting New Player Option Books - I'm not too torn up about softcover vs hardcover  Gamma World - Not sure what other stuff could be made for GW, but I'd give it a shot DDI - Especially if the VTT gets off the ground.   Box Sets - you can put fun stuff in box sets. Won't Buy: Dungeon Tiles Random Minis Novels
#40 CHeard Feb 08, 2011 16:52:22	The truth is that I will pretty much buy any new D&D book (RPG, not novels), but I can break that down a bit more. FYI, I am usually the DM when I play. I most want to buy … A Dungeon Master's Guide 3 focused on epic tier play Planar sourcebooks/boxed sets, especially a Feywild product Monster books/boxed sets (but see below) Dungeon Tiles Nonrandom prepainted miniatures sets focused on newer PC races (shardmind, wilden, deva, shifter) Random or nonrandom prepainted miniatures sets tied to new monster book/box releases Heroes of [Power/Planar Source] books Greyhawk or Dragonlance campaign setting books/boxes DDI subscription I am undecided about … Adventures (I sometimes buy these just for the poster maps) Fortune Cards I am not likely to buy … Monster tokens as a standalone product Board games Video games Unpainted minis (other folks already do this better) Dungeon/Dragon magazine "annuals" (it's only annual if you put them out 1/year, by the way) Gamma World products