Search results

I dont wan't to sacrifice quality for $10 in cost. Make it embossed leather and I'll pay $100. I like nice books on my gameroom shelf. Now if I were to buy a 2nd 'budget PHB' for my son to wreck? Sure make it softcover and all black and white and cost $25. I'll even pick up a couple extras to...

This is precisely why they have a $20 Starter Set. Hasbro probably has among the globe's best retail toy and game economists working for them. The $50 price tag is probably very close to this 'sweet spot'. The polls on this site all suggest people interested in 5e are going to buy it anyway.

I've found that few things spoil the story and roleplaying faster than a character that is designed to exploit lax multiclassing rules.

No it's more about preventing the character you envision. Strong measures are sometimes necessary to prevent the disasters of the past.

No! I don't speak for anyone, but I think many of us hope the abusive frankenstein-style multiclassing of is not present D&D Next. We've been assured that abuses are being remedied, but I still hate 'The Dip'. I'd like to see a rule, or at least an optional rule, that says something like...

If someone wants to create a thread called "Known Multiclass Abuses" this would most certainly go in: Fighter X/Mage 2 (Enchanter) 'Aura of Antipathy', the level 2 ability from the Enchantment School, make all melee attacks on the character have disadvantage. Combine that with heavy armor and...

Is there any good reason why they should sell it for $40? Profit margins being what they are in retail sales, you have to sell a heck of a lot more $40 books than you do $50 books.

Pathfinder and 3rd Edition D&D are the worst systems for the problems you are encountering. Have you considered 2e, 4e or the upcoming D&D Next? There are also other fantasy RPG systems like 13th Age, Savage Worlds and Numenera - but those are not D&D variants and I don't know much about them.

Clearly this thread isn't about the price of a book at all.

Well yes, but this is just playing a dragon intelligently, rather than wasting it as just a another monster to kill. I suppose a dragons' spell-like abilities are a nudge to get DMs to play dragons smarter - but in every past edition (except maybe 4th) Dragons have been too weak as written and...

I don't know, being the most powerful, fearsome and intelligent being around should give you the ability to affect the world. A random list of wizard spells x/day doesn't do that. This more an issue of 'economy of actions' rather than the lack of spells. Dragons that can't do lots of stuff on...

Exactly. This never was about the price of the PHB, but rather "Do you like D&D Next?" Perhaps that should have been the question for your poll.

Yes - if you want to give dragons spells, that's easy enough. Coming up with unique powers like 4e did - thats tougher to do on your own. I really like the unique powers each dragon had in addition to their breath weapon. 4e had the best dragons. I like this approach better. And I'd like it...

Fair enough. I apologize for the name calling.

You just said it - having to cross reference the PHB is annoying Most of the time the spells seem haphazardly selected and useless in a fight. Also, who said Dragons cast spells like wizards? But this is a derail, we shouldn't discuss this here.

No, they don't. They are opting not to waste space in the MM like that again.

If you don't want to spend $50 on an expensive book that's fine - perfectly valid opinion, no explanation necessary. But if you would happily pay $40 for a PHB, and $10 is your deal-breaker, then I say you are full of it - the real reason is not the price, but other things. And you are even...

If each rulebook cost $500, D&D would still be a cheap hobby. I also play MtG - that eats up 10x more money than D&D. I also have a custom off-road Jeep - don't ask.

I don't think this poll is going the way Forever Slayer hoped it would. $50 is the price of an RPG Core Rulebook in 2014. You can whine that others contain the GM-info if you like, but that is the economic reality of it. Sorry but WotC is not some sort of non-profit charity, they want to sell...

And, by that same logic, would you buy 5e even if all the rulebooks were $30 each? The point is Derren, is you just don't like D&D Next, and you wouldn't buy it even if the prices were lower. You are outside the target audience for this product. So it's a bit disingenuous to claim $10 is your...