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not a fan of 2024, whether them leaving was a good thing will depend on what the new guys create though. Probably will have to wait for 6e though, 2024 has set an example for the next years / supplements, unfortunately Overall I am much more in line with what Mearls is working on than what...

I assume the difference is the $5 that DDB makes, so MHP still makes about the same for PDF or DDB either way

agreed, but the core rulebook sells hundreds of thousands on DDB, not a handful of thousands.

I am not seeing the difference, you make stuff up whether Greenest is a dragonborn community or not. The only difference is how many other dragonborn are among the acquaintances of your character. Why can your dragonborn only have a generic history because they live in a village with few other...

I am not sure I would let anyone in that apparently is incapable of getting in when they threaten me and drag around dead bodies. Seems safer to not let those people in…

and your dragonborn family can have lived in Greenest for generations and have local contacts. and history in that place… the only one stopping you here seems to be you

and they sell more than three times what others do, so those costs are distributed over a much larger number of sales, making the cost per unit lower than that of others, which is reflected in their 40% profit margin

I never cared much for FR, I would not mind a new setting where all the species are incorporated in its history and have a place in the world

yeah, it is if you feel like they all need to have a specific location they are from, they could also be mixed in like that too For the FR, it probably is too much of a retcon to start having nations of whatever species recently popped up. Not sure how you determine whether a species does make...

Are you saying WotC is 3 times as good at making supplements as anyone else? I am pretty sure there are many people who disagree with that, and it is also not reflected in their full book print or digital prices... If not, then this is entirely in the eye of the beholder, with no comparison to...

guess we will have to disagree on that, I compare the price of a sandwich to a burger or something like that, not to a lawnmower. That a $40 sandwich costs 10% of what a lawnmower costs does not make it cheap or justifies its price (no idea what a lawnmower actually costs ;) ) Also, I never...

it better be, but that BluRays cost around the same is still no justification for the sandwich costing that much ;)

so other TTRPGs or 5e products are not competition... I am not saying that $15 is necessarily a lot of money in absolute terms, but for this, yeah, it is way too much. That some sandwich costs $15 is besides the point, a $40 sandwich is also overpriced, even though a BluRay might cost $40, the...

I based this on what the competition charges for comparable products, personal interest and income are not part of this at all. There are tons of products that I am not interested in, and I never complain that they are too expensive because of that. This one absolutely is too expensive in...

the value someone ascribes to things with intrinsic value also varies widely from person to person, that is not really all that different from things with no intrinsic value yes, that is how you arrive at the price of something, you try to figure out at what price point you maximize your...

does the DLC fall into the luxury category for you? For me that is more the Beadle&Grimm or Dwarven Forge end of things.

if things are worth what people are willing to pay for them, then you finally dropped the pretense that the price is justified by being 50-60% of what a printed version would be. Then the price is justified purely by enough people being willing to buy it at that price point. I agree with that...

assuming there is extreme underpricing, which is very much debatable and depends on a lot more than the price of an individual item WotC’s profit margin is around 40%, higher for digital, so if they do not pay enough it is not because they do not charge enough

not sure what you mean by no intrinsic value, either D&D books have that or almost everything that is for sale does not have an intrinsic value… movies, books, concert tickets, … For simplicity the difference between the cost to create a thing and the price it sells at is what is relevant here...

I am sorry, if one dealer offers the same car at three times the price as any other dealer, I’d say they are factually overpriced. This is not all that different yeah, but the digital DLC still costs more per page than the FR book in print. Just because print may be underpriced (and they just...