2nd ed or 3rd ed?

[Green Knight]

Just wondering:

Are there still a lot of BR fans who use 2nd edition rules or have most converted to 3rd ed?

What would be the major argumnets for either switching to 3rd or keeping 2nd?

[Lord Eldred]

Major arguments not to switch:

1. Don't want to spend the money on 3ed.
2. Not everything in Birthright is converted to 3ed.

WE SWITCHED ANY WAY!

[Arius Vistoon]

i think they are good, very good argument !!!!

but for the last, we can change it, no !!!

[Lord Valkyr]

I will stay with 2nd I am pretty much set in my ways now.

[Finkin Swiftfingers]

My group bleeds 3e now. Course, for the bulk of us, we had retired from gaming till the 3e release. Now it's hard to believe us retiring again.

[warlord_nabron]

I only had two reasons for not switching; financial (I'm not about to spend bales of money all over again -- the only stuff I was buying was BR anyway) and the fact that I don't play with anyone that *did* switch. It's just a matter of personal taste.

[Green Knight]

3ed doesn't really cost that much does it? You can get everything you need for less than $100 :)

[warlord_nabron]

Have you seen the prices? If T$R had been charging as much for campaign settings (et al), they never would've gone broke ;-)

But I don't mean that their flagship books are pricey, I mean that to go and buy product as I had done for AD&D would be expensive. There's just no sense in it, since I and everyone I know still plays whatever we had been playing when WotC unveiled its creation. Those "core" books are available for free online any way, so why spend the $100 at all if those are all you're going to buy? (And if I'd known that when I bought my copy of the PHB there would be a little more room on my bookcase.)

[Lawgiver]

Orginally posted by Green Knight
3ed doesn't really cost that much does it? You can get everything you need for less than $100 :)


If a $100 is such a paltry sum... please forward all donations to the following paypal accounts:
lavvgiver@hotmail.com - me
arjan@birthright.net - Arjan the Webmaster

[Green Knight]

Virtual $100 forwarded to Lawgiver's imaginary account ;)

I'm not trying to persuade people to use a lot of money on 3E. WotC is making enough already.

My point is that $100 isn't a lot for the three core rulebooks. They are all you are going to need - we have all the BR stuff already :) You could even share with you friends...

[Lawgiver]

Orginally posted by Green Knight
Virtual $100 forwarded to Lawgiver's imaginary account ;)

My point is that $100 isn't a lot for the three core rulebooks. They are all you are going to need - we have all the BR stuff already :) You could even share with you friends...


I assure you the acccount is quite real. :P

If you spent $100 to buy the PHB, DMG and monstorous manual you got robbed. Never ever, ever, ever pay retail prices! If you don't use ebay go to http://www.bestbookbuys.com its the ultimate site for low book prices (esp. college text books!). its a search engine that hits of the top book selling sites and gives you a list of the lowest prices (new and used). Several new ones for under $20.
Even Amazon has the PHB and DMG in a package deal for $42 w/o shipping.

I still say ebay all the way. I got my PHB and DMG, BRAND NEW, for $27 plus about $6 in shipping. Can't beat $33 for both (too often anyway).

[Strahd]

Orginally posted by Lawgiver
I still say ebay all the way. I got my PHB and DMG, BRAND NEW, for $27 plus about $6 in shipping. Can't beat $33 for both (too often anyway).
Well, internet beats them all. If you don't mind the electronic format at least ;)

[Green Knight]

Thanks for the tip. I must be earning too much money to be spending it so carelessly :P

[Lawgiver]

Orginally posted by Strahd
Well, internet beats them all. If you don't mind the electronic format at least ;)


Internet is fine till you need them in a game session. By the time you print the suckers you may as well have bought them for the cost in a new inkcartridge!

[Strahd]

Internet is fine till you need them in a game session. By the time you print the suckers you may as well have bought them for the cost in a new inkcartridge!
Unless you can print them for free of course :) (god bless the university, its T3 connection and its laser printer)

[Green Knight]

Praised be Haelyn, for he has given us higher education :P