D&D General D&D Book Prices Are Going Up

WotC announced today that D&D books will be increasing in price this year.

Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants will be $59.99 as a preorder and $69.99 thereafter. These will apparently come as physical and digital bundles, so you won’t need to buy the D&D Beyond version separately.

This space is dedicated to communicating clearly and transparently with our players- even when the topic isn’t particularly fun. Since the release of the 2014 D&D core rulebooks, we’ve kept book prices stable. Unfortunately, with the cost of goods and shipping continually increasing, we’ve finally had to make the decision to increase the price of our new release print books. We're committed to creating high-quality products that deliver great value to our players and must increase our prices to accomplish that.

This will go into effect starting with Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants and new releases after Glory of the Giants. Digital pricing is unaffected by this MSRP (manufacturer's suggested retail price) increase, as digital products don’t need to be printed or shipped. The increase also doesn’t impact backlist titles. While we can’t promise that there will never be a change to the prices of digital products and backlist titles, we have no plans to increase either.

Players who purchase the Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants digital-physical bundle through Dungeons & Dragons store can get the bundle for $59.95 for the entire preorder window, which is consistent with our current digital-physical bundle pricing. After the preorder window closes, digital-physical bundle prices will go to $69.95.

 

[Retreater]

More than half of the copies of Stryxhaven that we received at my store had the covers on upside-down.

That's just the Curriculum of Chaos for ya!

 

[Velderan]

Hey, lucky, thst makes it more valuable, lol.

Possibly. lol

I didn't bother to ask for a replacement, since I bought it a few years after they released it and it was the last copy my FLGS had. I figured WotC wasn't going to have any replacements available at that point.

 

[Parmandur]

Possibly. lol

I didn't bother to ask for a replacement, since I bought it a few years after they released it and it was the last copy my FLGS had. I figured WotC wasn't going to have any replacements available at that point.

They might, since it is available POD. Honestly worth a shot, they are deadly serious about warranting for quality.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

That's just the Curriculum of Chaos for ya!

I actually sold it to two people by telling them that. (Not by lying and saying that it was meant to be that way, but by telling them, "Well, it sure is Chaotic this way!")

 

[Clint_L]

I don't think they're hiding that one of the goals of the print price hike is to make the digital version more attractive by comparison.

Works for me!

 

[Vaalingrade]

Special note: Amazon is screwing over its authors with a price hike for print books in June.

I guess stealing from small businesses and selling knockoff copies, letting people die in warehouses, and scumbag exclusivity agreements didn't offset the cost of 'inflation' enough.

It's going to be fun finding a new printer whom using doesn't make me feel sick to the soul after Amazon annihilated them with said exclusivity agreements over the last decade.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yes, corporations do need to make a profit. With the books, their profit margin has been steadily shrinking for 9 years, rapidly shrinking this past year. Price increases are inevitable, when they are behind inflation they are more than fair.

Lol at lecturing about corporate greed and then singing thenpriases of "activist investors." Those jackels would have bled the game dry shortly.

Their profits keeping growing every year, there is not getting around that.

And there will be no blood left for anyone else after Chris Cocks is done. Lock up your wallets Ladies and Gentlemen, Chris Cocks is loose and he is thirsty for your last dime!

The Activists were actual fans, yes they made a business case for their case to convince other investors, but they were fans, unlike Chris Cocks.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

And yet, everyone would have been better off if everyone ignored them harder.

Really, because they predicted this exact disaster happening.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

That's just the Curriculum of Chaos for ya!

naughty word products for higher costs, the Chris Cocks way!!!

 

[Parmandur]

Their profits keeping growing every year, there is not getting around that.

And there will be no blood left for anyone else after Chris Cocks is done. Lock up your wallets Ladies and Gentlemen, Chris Cocks is loose and he is thirsty for your last dime!

The Activists were actual fans, yes they made a business case for their case to convince other investors, but they were fans, unlike Chris Cocks.

Dude, Alta Fox are sharks using some fans as useful pawns, not "fans" themselves. If you think Hasbro is a profit oriented corporate taskmaster, get real about those guys.