>Suck and Fucks guide to Butt: 50$>Basic Guide to Rolling Dice: 50$>Swords and Axes, a Manual: 50$Etc etc cut your prices you fucking shits it’s been a decade it shouldn’t be sitting full price on the shelves
>>97707631Someone somewhere is still paying the $50
>>97707631>not adjusting your prices up for inflation ngmi
>>97707631>buyLearn to pirate, print and bind faggot, there's no point in buying shit since 10 years ago at least, especially from the usual producers, and i say this as a guy that used to love original physical copies. YT is filled with tutorials for book binding, even hardcover ones.
>>97707631That's never going to happen, they even keep the crappy POD copies of old material with low quality scans expensive
>>97707631Because like comicbooks, the hobby has been taken over by normalfags and collectors. Cheap paper, b/w interiors, and softcovers (or cheap hardcovers) are considered gauche and low-class now.
>>97707767That's been something thats been happening for 20 years, it's been proven that the big, full color hardcover book sells better. I personally love the 90s/early 2000s softback rpg, but apparently they just don't make money like you'd hope.
>>97707631I've bought nearly the entire 5e catalog as books on Amazon, pre-ordering books as soon as they're announced, and although the starting price for most of the books, very rarely did I end up paying more than $40. Pre-ordering something on amazon charges you the cheapest price the item was since you pre-ordered it, and while the book didn't release between it going on amazon and it actually being purchasable, it's price did fluctuate.So my suggestion is to use some sort of price track alert so that you can buy a book when it's on a significant sale instead of paying the $50 price tag.
>>97707631Are you underage? How the hell would an adult think $50 is a lot of money?
>>97708205Nothing in the book is actually worth $50 when you can just read it/pirate it online. They have to be making like a 90% profit on every book sold.And nigga if you pay price tags on let’s say a players guide, a dm guide, monster manuals, and other auxiliary shit that adds up quick. They pluck you via drip feed too unless you want to be the only guy at the table who hasn’t read “Dragonlord’s Guide to Dragons” or whatever new book the put out.
>>97707631Where the fuck else are they gonna get money from, anon? TTRPGs are already not a very lucrative business
>>97707631>DM's really pay $50 for a blank book with zero rules or mechanics that only says "As the DM you should be creative and roll dice!"
>>97708459>TTRPGs are already not a very lucrative businessThis might have been a valid argument back in the 90s or like early 2000s but tabletop stuff has become much more mainstream over the last decade+ or soThey are absolutely making way more money these days than they used to no?
>>97708483It evens out. Yes, back in the days the hobby was smaller, but also the internet didnt have every single book available to download mere days after it is released.
>>97707631This shit is avaliable in the Internet Fucking Archive why are you paying $50 for it
>>97707631>>97708455Selling books is their main source of moneyUnlike a traditional book which might sell for 20 or 30 (assuming a similar size, word count), ttrpg books have a few key things that price them up>All colored, thus not only ink but pricier thicker paper>It's a franchise with several developers, playtesters, community managers etc, compared to a book written by one guy and edited by someone at a publishing house, a lot more people have to get their cut>It's owned by a toy company which expects x quarterly revenue and all that shitIn general tabletop game books are kind of cursed to cost double a normal book for many reasons, I guess now that a new edition is out you could ask why they don't discount the old one, and the answer may vary from collectors, game stores who have already invested into this stuff and would lose money, etc etcAt the end of the day, you kinda buy the book to support the game and for ease of use if you know how to get a pdf>But is it worth itMaybe the base rules of any given game are worth it, but the supplements, setting books etc etc? Fuck no, that shit never gets opened at the table, you only buy those because you like to collect them and read them physical and you want to support a game, this retroactively also makes the core rulebooks more pricey because it means companies can realy ONLY on the rulebook to make them consistent money
>>97708483They do, but you have to understand they are owned by Hasbro, a company that makes billions off other properties, so for them the money dnd makes is a pittance and the investors will only give the dnd team funding if they can show them consistent growing profitsLess popular ttrpg games obviously have the problem that dnd is so big they cannot ever hope to sell a LOT of copies, so they have to price themselves at a decent profit margin too.Meaning in both cases you get 50$ books
>>97708455>And nigga if you pay price tags on let’s say a players guide, a dm guide, monster manuals, and other auxiliary shit that adds up quickYou pay $200 on a game you can play for years, it's one of the cheapest hobbies you can have.
>>97708205>How the hell would an adult think $50 is a lot of money?By not being a NEET inheritance baby.
>>97707631but you want it though, pay for it
