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You have plenty of options for a game like that. A long time ago the Powers That Be decided that D&D wasn't going to be about fragile player characters. It was going to be a game where you play as a heroic (or occasionally anti-heroic or even villainous) adventurer. Players get invested in their...

I didn't ask for you to share whether WotC could have reduced the sticker price of the books. They could have priced it at any point they wanted to! I asked you to think of some reasons why they might choose to give the books a higher price point, other than "greed."

Except you don't know that there is, and you don't know that he was. There is no evidence either way, so far. Instead of taking the neutral position ("We don't know what happened, so I'll reserve judgment on whether harm was dealt to him until we know more.") you are taking the affirmative...

I wonder if you can think of some possible reasons why one book might cost more than another book, aside from "greed"?

The LA Times is now reporting that the NBA has alleged that Sterling deliberately tampered with and destroyed evidence, including asking Stiviano to lie about the recording. This guy doesn't know how to do anything but double down.

A) Not if consent was verbal, and B) not if she is concerned about a legal battle.

Do you really think that no journalists have pursued this? Despite the headlines it would get if it turned out to be true?

Really? A civil privacy dispute between two private parties is as interesting, noteworthy, and culturally relevant as the revelation that the owner of a major sports franchise is super racist and may lose ownership of the team? We all value privacy. Everyone does. I'm still not seeing what...

Again, how would that even be possible? You can't go two posts without someone mentioning how concerned they are that someone's words were recorded by a private party potentially without their knowledge. Because, at the absolute worst, it was a private party recording another private party in...

It could be! If she didn't have permission, and if the law isn't on her side! Or it could not be! We don't know! But we should be concerned, right? How about we let the courts handle that one, hm?

Who is "losing sight of the importance of privacy?" Literally every conversation I've seen on this topic has had the privacy issue raised. It has been ubiquitous. We couldn't lose sight of it if we wanted to. So what are you trying to accomplish, here? What message are you trying to get to us...

Except that there's no hypersensitivity or looking-for-offense going on here. I hate that stuff, too, but the guy said some truly, horrifically racist things. We're not talking about stuff that could maybe be construed as racism if you tilt your head. He knew what he was saying, he knew the...

No, you didn't. But you insist on acting like a grievous injustice was committed against Sterling because a conversation whose details he probably wanted to keep between him and his girlfriend was instead heard by far more.

Because it seems that, most of the time, RPG players don't size up the market and say, "Okay, I have $50 to spend, which of these four RPGs should I buy?" If they did do that, it certainly would make sense for them to compare the value of each game to the others (among other things). But people...

No, he said that WotC wants as many customers as possible. That's not true. If size of customer base were their only concern, the game would be free. They have to (like any business!) balance their desire to grow their customer base against the necessity of making a quality product - a product...

No, I got that. Or you could just have them buy you individual books. From Amazon. And I'm telling you that, were I in your financial situation (where, given five months to prepare my finances, spending $150 on years' worth of entertainment is simply not something I could afford), it...

I ought to rephrase - WotC isn't (and shouldn't be) relying on the purchasing power of people who know that they legitimately cannot afford their game to sustain their brand. Gamers who manage to convince themselves - wrongly - that they can afford entertainment products probably makes up a...

That doesn't make racism okay. Yes, there is. And even if there weren't, it doesn't make racism okay. That doesn't make racism okay. Had he not opened his mouth in the first place or been a tremendous racist nothing would have changed. Then perhaps you should consider not saying...

If you cannot afford to spend $150 in a purchase that will net you (assuming it's a quality game) literally years' worth of entertainment given months of advance notice, you probably cannot afford to spend $120 on that purchase, either. You might tell yourself that you can afford $120, but the...

I would say that your experiences as far as nights out go are atypical. I think that most adults, especially those with significant others, have managed to spend $150 in the course of a single evening before. Moreover, I don't think WotC is counting on revenue from the sort of person who balks...