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possibly, if they intended on printing each individually. They could also print all three along with some other stuff in a full 200 page book or devote a full 128 or 160 pages to these three supplements as a separate book. Not sure what their rationale was, but whatever it was, the end result...

agreed, the 32 page limit is arbitrary / self imposed however, esp. since this is a digital product and the pages do not need to come in multiples of 16. No technical restriction was stopping them from making it 40 pages or even 64 or more. Personally I would prefer a more chunky offering, esp...

8 monsters is not what I would call a full bestiary

not sure, I think in true capitalist fashion they simply set the price point to where they estimate they make the most profit and my idea of this being in relation to digital page count or yours for a printed version of it are both just quaint ideas. In any case, I still evaluate it based on...

all the ones that are available as books are priced at 50% or 60% or the printed book price, that seems to be the norm for digital these days. Since there is no printed version for this, they are not potentially cannibalizing print sales by going for a price point below 50% of the printed book...

yeah, but these aren't books, so I see no reason why I should base their price on book logic. For books the hardcover makes up a disproportionate amount of the price and explains why it is not linear with the page count, digital has no such oddity, here amount of content vs price can and should...

I am sorry, 32 pages for $15 may be cheap in print, it is nowhere near that in digital. If the ratio of pages per dollar were the same for the FR books, they would be around 70-80 pages, I am sure they are considerably longer, probably by a factor of 3, which means the supplement should be $5...

um, aren't these digital only? $15 for the equivalent of 32 pages is not what I consider inexpensive, just compare that to the FR books, which then should be around 64 pages and 80 pages respectively

so the digital bundle was like $120, the two FR books are $30 and $40, which leaves $15 or so for each of the supplements (assuming none of this is discounted, which feels like a safe assumption...). Not sure how a 32 page supplement can justify that price, do we have page counts for the other...

the last two words are the relevant ones…

it's predominantly different content, not sure how you compare which one is less or more when the content is that different. Sure, the PHB has more pages, but fewer tokens, dice, etc. The idea is that the starter set is a good introduction / easier onramp to the game. If that is not the case...

If it is in the box and most others do not have that problem, probably that person's, it's not like there really is another option at that point. I do not have the box, so cannot really say if the text got anything wrong or is badly organized, but from some posts here it sounds like you flat...

ok, so you cannot hurt the feelings of a box, fine. I don't think that means we should be blaming everything on boxes going forward, just to avoid hurting people's feeling when we tell them that they made a mistake / missed something. Not sure how that would be a benefit to anyone

I mean, all of you apparently missed stuff that is actually in the box... I am not sure people were looking into why that happened, but it is pretty odd if they were to blame the box for it

if they like it, it is easy to learn about them. Heck, it might be unavoidable to hear about all those other things you mentioned (DDB, BG3, ...) even if they do not like it

that more people learn how to DM

no idea, but you could take a look at the player guide, that hopefully gives you a bit more of an idea than this series alone https://www.patreon.com/posts/sands-of-doom-135874613

what do you mean, the thread started because they announced doing so, do you need an actual first session for confirmation?

I know, but unless you have some data to contradict any of this, I am very comfortable with these two assertions. Also, there still is the fact that WotC said it is the fastest selling. While that is not hard data, that would be hard to explain if the two were not true

assertions that 1) about the same number of new players get added now as a year before and 2) that a significant percentage of the people owning the 2014 books are buying the 2024 ones? I consider them self-evident. I see no reason to assume that there are a lot less new players. For 2) we had...