WotC Reprinting AD&D!

[Matthew]

Check it out:

http://www.wizards.com/ContentResour...tion_en_US.pdf

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Product.a...ndacc/02390000

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Product.a...ndacc/02390000

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Product.a...ndacc/02400000

Collector's editions, but still pretty great.

[kpenguin]

That's AMAZING.

Release date in April? Must find local gaming supplier...

[Dumbledore lives]

This is awesome, now if only they'd reprint all the other ones.

[NikitaDarkstar]

.... Oh darn it... Time to start saving! (What? I'm a student, and WotC's books are almost as expensive as my friggin text-books. XD)

[Delvin Darkwood]

Yes! By the great will of gygax yes!

Granted i already have all the manuals... but hey, a second copy cant hurt can it?

[Kurald Galain]

They're building a statue for Gygax? Okay, that's pretty cool

[Matthew]

Oh yeah, that statue has been planned for a few years, and it is cool to see WotC reaching out like this.

[Morghen]

That really is pretty cool.



Except for the whole $45/book thing.

[Matthew]

Yeah, it is expensive, but then they are "premium quality", so maybe it will be worth it. I am not planning on laying down the dollars myself right now, but maybe I will feel inclined when we get to April.

[hamlet]

For those of us behind content filters that don't like WOTC website . . . which version of AD&D is it? I'm presuming 1e, but I'm guessing that maybe they're doing Unearthed Arcana in there as well?

Either this is really cool, and maybe a first positive step by WOTC to reach back out to those gamers it told to bugger off a few years ago, or it's the world's unfunniest, longest April Fool's Joke ever.

I'm not quite sure which I believe.

[Matthew]

Just the 1977-9 PHB, DMG and MM.

[Totally Guy]

Do you think they'll incorporate any eratta?

[Yora]

I think this is bait for the old school fans. In April you get them visits WotCs website and buy their books again, so by the end of the year you have their attention to consider 5th Edition.

[hamlet]

Just the 1977-9 PHB, DMG and MM.

Not bad then. I'll certainly consider it.

I think this is bait for the old school fans. In April you get them visits WotCs website and buy their books again, so by the end of the year you have their attention to consider 5th Edition.

Almost certainly. But it's reasonable bait rather than smacking people around like last time. It's a little more postive.

[Matthew]

Do you think they'll incorporate any eratta?

Good question! There actually was errata released back in 1980 that was never incorporated.

[Totally Guy]

Good question! There actually was errata released back in 1980 that was never incorporated.

Oh, cool, I didn't think errata happened back then.

[Lapak]

Awesome. My PHB is held together with tape and good will at the moment; having a 'playing' copy so I can keep that one on the shelf would be wonderful.

[Kurald Galain]

Hm, it wouldn't surprise me if WOTC ends up claiming that 5E will be fully compatible with 1E (for a definition of "compatible" that not everybody agrees with, of course).

[Grinner]

From wizards.com: Your purchase of this monumental book helps support the Gygax Memorial Fund—established to immortalize the “Father of Roleplaying Games” with a memorial statue in Lake Geneva, WI.

Kickass idea.

[Matthew]

Oh, cool, I didn't think errata happened back then.

Yeah, they used to publish it in Dragon; check it out:

PHB Errata
DMG Errata
MM Errata

Hm, it wouldn't surprise me if WOTC ends up claiming that 5E will be fully compatible with 1E (for a definition of "compatible" that not everybody agrees with, of course).

My thinking is that the emphasis is going to be on transporting characters between editions.

[Lifeson]

If 5E will be compatible with other editions of D&D, I think it'll be as compatible as Pathfinder to 3.5 is, maybe a little less. It'll mesh up until you try to do something that isn't just whacking something.


BACK ON TOPIC: As much as I like the idea of WotC publishing their history, I gotta wonder how long this will be available for and what the aftereffects are going to be.

[Yora]

Hm, it wouldn't surprise me if WOTC ends up claiming that 5E will be fully compatible with 1E (for a definition of "compatible" that not everybody agrees with, of course).

Monte Cook will make that claim. Six hours later, Mike Mearls will explain that this isn't really the case.

[Tyndmyr]

Check it out:

http://www.wizards.com/ContentResour...tion_en_US.pdf

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Product.a...ndacc/02390000

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Product.a...ndacc/02390000

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Product.a...ndacc/02400000

Collector's editions, but still pretty great.

This is...genius. It's exactly what I've been saying they should do. Also, I'm buying them all.

[Anxe]

What if it is an April Fools joke?

[Maerok]

They're going to call it fifth edition.

[Howler Dagger]

What if it is an April Fools joke?

What if it isn't even April 1st yet?

[hamlet]

Actually, I think they'd make a fair profit if they, eventually, reprinted more of the 1e line with incorporated erratta. Throw up the MM2, FF, UA, and a couple others, and people will grab them up, especially if part of the money is said to be going to a decent cause.

[gkathellar]

Yay, I guess! I'm too young to have played 1E, so I guess I'll pick it up, see what the fuss is about and how it compares to 2E.

What if it is an April Fools joke?

Yeah, I hate it when I get notified of an April Fools joke 72 days early, and then I have to wait a whole 16 days after April Fools for the joke to actually happen! That's really just the worst.

[hamlet]

Yay, I guess! I'm too young to have played 1E, so I guess I'll pick it up, see what the fuss is about and how it compares to 2E.

Virtually identical except for some minor tweeks.

[TheArsenal]

Weird. I have a 1989 Reprint right in my hands. Does anybody know who made it? Whats TSR?