Should I wait to get the new printing

[DarkAngelCryo]

I've heard from my FLGS that the Beginner Box is in between printings. Assuming this is true, I'm wondering if I should wait until the new printing comes out to buy it. Also, has there been any public announcement of when this new printing will be available?

[Gravy229]

For me it would depend on the price. I was looking something up on Amazon the other day and I couldn't figure out why the jump in price for the BB. That explains it.

[Steve Geddes]

I haven't heard anything about a new printing (and although the BB may be different, paizo don't generally announce new printings until they've happened).

If you're not in a rush, I'd wait (since then you'll get a bunch of errata). Having said that, there are very few errors, from what I've seen and you may be waiting for a little while. Plus if everyone waits....the second printing will never happen.

[PFBeginner]

I would recommend buying the current version (even if it's a used copy) of the Beginner Box and add the errata or your own notes with sticky notes.

If you can't currently find the Beginner Box (or can't find it at a reasonable price), I put together a free website with the BB OGL rules (and current errata) at PFBeginner.com.

And if your ready to move to Paizo's more advanced Pathfinder rules you can find them here: Paizo's Pathfinder PRD or at d20pfsrd.com--which has not just Paizo material, but a treasure trove of outstanding third-party material.

Don't put off playing--play today!

[DarkAngelCryo]

I wound up buying it today. Now I just need to get a group together.

[existence123]

I bought the beginner box a few weeks ago and did find that it was a little difficult to track down - a sign of dwindling supply. Then I had a brainwave, walked into my local Barnes and Noble and found one there.

[Dream Daemon]

Can you please share some brainwaves with me? Thanks.

[Vic Wertz]

We do have stock right here at paizo.com...

[existence123]

Dream Daemon, if I only had that many to go around...

Edit- And a brain wave of greater amplitude might have induced me to check paizo.com...but hey, that'd be making it too easy...

[GroovyTuesday]

Thanks for the heads up Vic. I was just trying to locate a box for some friends as a gift and was very disappointed to see amazon isn't selling it direct anymore for the price i bought it for :( was kind of a bummer honestly. $21 bucks is a helluva price for this little box of masterpiece you guys created! I love mine! But 34.00 is still far better than what some of the wankers are trying to rip people off for. I saw some selling for $64...that's just crappy.

[morlockhq]

Every Books-a-Million I have called has it. You can even check for local availability through their website.

[brock, no the other one...]

Vic Wertz wrote:

We do have stock right here at paizo.com...

A couple of weeks ago, I recommended the BB as a birthday present for a friends nephew. Every UK game store with a web presence that I could recall were out of stock. Amazon was out of stock (maybe listed as unavailable). The first few games stores that I'd never heard of but found via Google didn't have stock. Then we found one that did, ordered, and the order was cancelled a few days later when they discovered that they didn't have the 1 left in stock that they thought they had.

We didn't consider ordering direct because of the shipping cost (because of weight) and the import cost (because it's not just books).

It's a wonderful gateway product to the world of Pathfinder - I bought three copies to give away when it was released - but it can only do its job if people can buy it locally.

[cjchand]

DarkAngelCryo wrote:

I've heard from my FLGS that the Beginner Box is in between printings. Assuming this is true, I'm wondering if I should wait until the new printing comes out to buy it. Also, has there been any public announcement of when this new printing will be available?

Mostly just a "me too" post. I am tempted to just order, but don't want to fearing that the new version will ship the day after I open mine.

I realize the Paizo folks won't come on here and tell us, but has anyone heard any reasonable rumors - like, from employees of your FLGS - about a date? Really just looking for an order of magnitude: days, weeks, months?

Futile, I know, but had to ask :)

[Ramanujan]

cjchand wrote:

DarkAngelCryo wrote:

I've heard from my FLGS that the Beginner Box is in between printings. Assuming this is true, I'm wondering if I should wait until the new printing comes out to buy it. Also, has there been any public announcement of when this new printing will be available?

Mostly just a "me too" post. I am tempted to just order, but don't want to fearing that the new version will ship the day after I open mine.

I realize the Paizo folks won't come on here and tell us, but has anyone heard any reasonable rumors - like, from employees of your FLGS - about a date? Really just looking for an order of magnitude: days, weeks, months?

Futile, I know, but had to ask :)

Technically not an answer, but I emailed Paizo and got this reply. I'm not sure how much to read into the wording though.

"We currently do not have any announced plans to reprint the Beginner Box."

Currently and announced are both very particular words.

I waited through PAX Prime hoping they'd announce something as being current. But have since given up waiting and ordered the basics to GM the full game — though I'm going to use the link above; http://www.pfbeginner.com/ to help me simplify it for my players to begin with.

[Steve Geddes]

That's pretty standard Paizo-speak. The trouble with confirming that they're going to reprint something is that everyone will stop buying what remains in stock - so they never actually get around to needing a reprint.

FWIW, I bought two boxes and combined most of them anyhow. I think the box is cheap enough and there's a fair bit of utility in having multiple dice, multiple copies of the Hero's Handbook and multiple pawns.

I realise that effectively doubles the price, but personally I think it's worth at least that.

[cjchand]

Isaac Thimbleby wrote:

Technically not an answer, but I emailed Paizo and got this reply. I'm not sure how much to read into the wording though.

"We currently do not have any announced plans to reprint the Beginner Box."

Currently and announced are both very particular words.

Thanks for sharing. If only the word announced wasn't in there :)

As Steve mentions, it's still a pretty good value and BB should be "right sized" for my son once we finish all of the Adventures in Hero Kids.

Guess I will suck it up and order. Better to get burned on a reprint than miss out, I guess.

[Sara Marie]

Just to confirm what Steve said, "We currently do not have any announced plans.." is how customer service will answer most inquires about things that do not exist and/or haven't been announced. Its a phrase that lets us cover all our bases as we frequently do not know what the development or management team have in the works and we don't always know when/if something is being reprinted.

thanks
sara marie

[Lincoln Hills]

Don't think of buying an older set as "the box that contains errata that will have to be corrected;" think of it as "the edition that will have the higher antique value when I sell it used twenty years from now." ;)

Man! I wish I had all my old AD&D modules. I could be raking it in...

[cjchand]

Sara Marie wrote:

Just to confirm what Steve said, "We currently do not have any announced plans.." is how customer service will answer most inquires about things that do not exist and/or haven't been announced. Its a phrase that lets us cover all our bases as we frequently do not know what the development or management team have in the works and we don't always know when/if something is being reprinted.

thanks
sara marie

Thanks for the explanation - and understand the need to cover your backside :)