price of H1 Keep on the Shadowfell

[carmachu]

WotC said at GAMA that all the modules would be 96 pages and $29.95.

Ouch. I cant say I'm pleased about that at all. All of them? Couldnt they try a little variety? I mean Piazo's pathfinder is only $19.99 for 96 pages, and 30% cheaper with a subscription....

 

[Voss]

Thats a pretty rough cost for half a module and a bare trickle of preview content.
$20 would be high end for something this small, let alone $30.
One more reason to pass on the module line, I guess.

 

[Henry]

It's a little steep for a preview, in my opinion. With great reminiscences of Sunless Citadel at a 10 buck price point, 25 bucks as an MSRP sounds a little counterproductive. But, I'm no marketing genius, so maybe it'll work out for them.

 

[Digital M@]

I am buying it. I am no rules nut (not that it is bad). I have read a lot of previews but have not created detailed charts of rules, created characters etc. I just read them to get an overall idea of the new game. I will buy this to have an example adventure to see how they put together the encounters and adventure flow. If the adventure is no good, then I will not buy future ones, but I am buying H 1 for sure.

 

[MerricB]

It's a little steep for a preview, in my opinion. With great reminiscences of Sunless Citadel at a 10 buck price point, 25 bucks as an MSRP sounds a little counterproductive. But, I'm no marketing genius, so maybe it'll work out for them.

Sunless Citadel was $10 for 32 pages, 8 years ago.

If it's $25, that's for 64 adventure pages + preview pages (32? 16?) + 3 poster maps.

 

[Jack Colby]

I tend to buy the first adventure of a new edition, just to see how they put it together and handled the rules. It will be a good example for making my own 4E stuff, plus I like the premise of the scenario. I do think that it would have been smarter to release it a month or two ago, however. WotC screwed up somewhat by releasing it so close to the actual rulebooks.

 

[Lanefan]

WotC says:

Item Code 217187400
Release Date May 2008
Format Trade Paperback
Page Count 64
ISBN 978-0-7869-4850-5
Price $24.95 ; C$32.95

So hard to say.

Easy to say we're going to get ripped off *again* in Canada if that pricing holds up...the two currencies are at pretty close to par these days and there's no way in hell it costs an extra $8 per unit to ship 'em up here.

If anyone from WotC happens to read this, please explain the US-Cdn pricing difference. Thanks.

Lanefan

 

[Ian Demagi]

H1

Its what I have said for months, WotC made a marketing mistake by having this come out so close to 4E. If this would have come out mid March, I doubt if they could have kept them in stock. Now its pretty easy to just wait on 4E and make your own adventure or wait for 3rd party stuff. Ian.

 

[edveal]

If I remember correctly the timing issue is because WotC changed the release date of the core books. I think the original dates were DMG in June, MM in July and PHB in Aug. That would have had H1 our really early and great for DM's...

But I could be all wrong.

 

[Voss]

Sunless Citadel was $10 for 32 pages, 8 years ago.

If it's $25, that's for 64 adventure pages + preview pages (32? 16?) + 3 poster maps.

It was my understanding that the rules preview would be eating into the adventure page count. Not that there would be additional pages.