Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

[Parmandur]

The faction text that is visible in the photo is clearly not FR related.

That’s a thin reed to make overall assumptions, considered it is being co-b handed with the Thay Adventure Campaign.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I DON'T KNOW.

Sure, neither do I, but I can look at the evidence and make inferences.

All I was saying was that they can be, and are meant to be, available to be used in the Adventure. Which is written for FR

Sure, but why is the adventure separate? The cost suggests they could easily be combined into one book - and that would actually be more profitable since fewer covers equals cheaper printing costs. I would suggest it was done to make the book setting agnostic.

 

[Parmandur]

Sure, neither do I, but I can look at the evidence and make inferences.

Sure, but why is the adventure separate? The cost suggests they could easily be combined into one book - and that would actually be more profitable since fewer covers equals cheaper printing costs. I would suggest it was done to make the book setting agnostic.

Probably because they think people Wil stomach paying $80 for two smaller books better than $80 for one larger book.

 

[mamba]

Sure, but why is the adventure separate? The cost suggests they could easily be combined into one book - and that would actually be more profitable since fewer covers equals cheaper printing costs. I would suggest it was done to make the book setting agnostic.

Because WotC makes more money by selling you two products for $50 and $30 than one for $60

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Because WotC makes more money by selling you two products for $50 and $30 than one for $60

Full size book would be 80, not 60. So no.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Probably because they think people Wil stomach paying $80 for two smaller books better than $80 for one larger book.

Possibly, or possibly because they think more people will buy a generic splat book than yet another FR setting book.

 

[mamba]

Full size book would be 80, not 60. So no.

no it would not, it probably would still be $60, certainly not $80. You said yourself production cost would be lower, so it should be less than $80 simply due to that. When you look at the past, the book cost $50 regardless of whether it had 200 pages or 320 pages. With the price increase to $60, there is a high likelihood that the combined book would still cost $60

 

[Parmandur]

Possibly, or possibly because they think more people will buy a generic splat book than yet another FR setting book.

It is co-branded with a Forgotten Realms book already, and WotC has decades of proof at this point that making specifically Forgotten Realms products that can be repurposed easily will get them the most money.

At any rate, I expect there are elements they haven't hinted at yet, and that they tie into he Red Wizards "wizards war" somehow or another.

 

[Remathilis]

First Dark Lord to deal with both alimony and a chronic skin condition.

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[Jared Rascher]

Is that serpentine creature in the Deadfall artwork a yuan-ti . . . or a sarrukh?