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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 2764172" data-attributes="member: 1288">I have nothing to do with the pricing of books, D20 or otherwise. I'm a freelancer; WotC (or anyone else) would probably take your advice about pricing before they take mine.Nor am I being particularly "defensive." I've had this same conversation multiple times, with many other people. Believe you me, I'd love it if books were cheaper; I buy as many as anyone.But the fact of the matter is, people who work in the RPG industry--writers like myself, and others--get paid beans. And one of the reasons for that is that the RPG industry is underpriced compared to other markets. That's not opinion; it's simple numbers.I'm not complaining about that; I knew what I was in for when I got involved. My point is simply that even companies that choose to maximize profit, as opposed to selling their books for bare minimum cost, are still making less, book for book and effort for effort, than are companies that produce comperably sized books in other markets.And no, I'm not just talking about D20; I'm talking about the industry as a whole. The fact that Company X produced Book Y for cheaper than Company A produced Book B doesn't mean that X's business plan for that book is viable across the board.Again, I'm not telling you that you should buy books out of any sense of "duty," or that you should be happy about prices going up. I'm simply pointing out that RPG books are still cheaper than they "should" be, if one were to take inflation into account across the last three decades, and that nobody has artificially inflated prices to the point where anyone's raking in the dough.</blockquote>

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