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I'm not sure if I will be purchasing the new game. I am trying to help get it off the ground but I'm quite content with the books I have now. I probably will take some of the tweeks that Alpha offers and putting them to my games but if I do purchase the books, I have a feeling that I will be pleased with it.
While I would prefer a pdf of the beta, I will probably order a hardcopy. Haven't preordered yet, but that's mostly due to a lack of cash at the moment.
Depends on how all of this turns out. If, in the end, it looks like a superior ruleset to my old 3.5 books, then I'll buy this. If it's just another flavour of 3.X, then I won't bother. I'm extremely unlikely to spend money on 4e, at least not until the second printing and/or the inevitable 4.5, in which they will fix all the dumb-ass mistakes that they swear, up and down, have been thoroughly been rooted out of 4e.
I and all the other DMs I personally know are definitely buying the Pathfinder RPG HC. I cannot speak for the others, but I'm going to buy Beta, too. Unless there will dramatical changes in the end product and it will either be too close 3E or 4E (can't see that happening, though ;)
I'm going to buy it. Then I'll probably give the other GM in my group a copy for his birthday, and eventually get a second copy for my wife to use as a "player's handbook". There's no way I'll miss this one.
Worth mentioning as well is that not only am I buying the finished product, I'm definitely buying at least one copy of the beta.
Unless something utterly ridiculous is placed in the final release, well I'll be getting a copy. Probably at least 3 copies overall through out the group.
Will probably buy two or three copies of the final hardback as well as two copies of the campaign setting. Will also be buying the various books that add depth to the setting...definitely the oriental book if James gets that to print.
-Weylin Stormcrowe
R_Kane(Pathfinder Charter Superscriber; GameMastery Cards Subscriber)
I will definitely be buying a copy of the final release, and it is highly likely I will buy a hardcopy of the Beta release.
I plan to buy the beta, and unless 4e is terrifyingly better* then it is coming off to be (which I do not for see, even though it might still be fun and I still have it preordered) I will also then buy the final release.
*Meaning my whole group decides they like it so much they want to be near exclusively play it.
I think this makes me 158. (hopefully a GenCon 09 purchase!)
I will be buying the hard cover, but probably just downloading the Beta. I suspect that I will be running a PF AP using the PF RPG rules in Sept 09, and if this comes to pass, I will probably be buying a couple of additional copies for my group.
I definitely plan to buy Pathfinder, and I'm pushing for my DnD group to switch to it rather than 4e, which they are looking at with a very jaded eye right now.
I have no intention of buying 4e or any of the multitude of related products. I have far too many 3.5e splat books to simply throw them out because of a gratuitous WotC/Hasbro profit-making exercise. I still remember 'converting' to 3.5e from 3e after what seemed like owning 3e for about 5 minutes.
I didn't like everything in the Alpha PRPG; particularly Skills. Every 1st level party would have started as Rogues and then changed to the class they wished to play. But I guess that was why it was the Alpha version. Have WotC been as open with 4e? They have released splat books before the core rules books. Money, money, moeny ... and goodbye gnomes. As it is, I like a lot of the changes in Alpha2. Beta and the final HC will most probably be even better.
I'll definitely be buying Beta and the Hardcover. I am not going to second-guess what my friends will purchase but I'm mostly convinced that several (6+) will buy the PRPG Hardcover. Paizo's campaign/module support is second to none and Golarion is shaping up as the best high fantasy setting for D&D (I'm most familiar with Greyhawk, FR and Eberron).
As for WotC 'weeding out' all of the 'errors' in 4e, I keenly remember the fact that the original WotC design team for 3e didn't playtest the system beyond 10th level. Anyone remember the original Haste spell? Yep; they didn't playtest all of the spells either. Besides, there must be errors in 4e so WotC can release 4.5e in 2010 ...
I never feel cheated when I purchase from Paizo, they deliver a quality product with great online customer serice and support. I'm preordering right now!
I will definitely be buying, I'll also buy the beta when it becomes available.
I'll be introducing some nieces and nephews to gaming this summer (and maybe getting some others re-involved in gaming.
Depending on how well I am financially (and how well a business venture goes for me) I'll probably be picking up several copies of the book to give out to them.
I'm still undecided on whether or not I'm going to be even purchasing the beta. I was excited with the first Alpha release, but the second one was just too disappointing. We'll see how things go.
If I do end up buying the hard cover, I would only get one for my entire group.
I'll be buying both the Beta and Final versions and at least one of my players will be too. I'm also going to pick up the Gazetteer, Gods & Magic book, and probably the Revised Monsters book too.
178.
Michael Dean(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber)
If I go to Gen Con, I'll buy the beta, otherwise I'll just download it. But I'm definitely picking up the hardcover final next year.
So, 179
Big Bucket(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber)
180 - I'll be picking up the beta and the hardcover.
Not at the moment for me. There are some great changes so far, especially in balancing and modifying the classes, but at this instant I dont consider it enough of a change to spend money on it.
The game is headed in the right direction though and if it continues to advance at this point (and 4th ed is as mechanistic as it looks) then I will almost certainly buy it.
As someone said before though, if 4th ed turns out awesome then I will probably move on in that direction instead. After all people released good expansions for 2nd/3rd Ed as well and they have been largely forgotten.
I don't know yet if I'll buy it or not. I'm liking a lot of what I see thus far, but won't make a decision until quite a bit later on it. To be honest I'd wanna know what's going to be in the book a bit more before I commit.
So far Jason is doing a great job on it. I've not gotten to playtest it yet but looking through the alpha has me pretty stoked.
I'm absolutely buying the Beta, and if nothing disastrous happens in the meantime, the final hardcover version too. And I'm pretty sure my gaming buddies will buy it too.