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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2105265" data-attributes="member: 151">I'm not sure I agree.  Warhammer is closer to a CCG than an RPG, but the point is that it has a high-cost of investment for the game, and a continuing one at that.  Furthermore, from my (very limited) experience, the cost of most warhammer minis is fairly inelastic.  The big difference between an RPG book and many of the other entertainment examples, however, is directly attributable cost.That is to say that a movie, video game and miniature generally have very straightforward fixed costs of production...while the main part of an RPG book, like a fiction book, has difficult costs to quantify.  Not every author is as swift or proflific as a Stephen King or Isaac Asimov.  Which is more valuable: Wolves of the Cala, A New Spring or A Feast for Crows?  Which one cost more to produce? The only real way to gauge is by previous sales and writer's contracts...how easy or difficult it was for the writer to actually write it isn't reflected in the costs, afaik.  For example, I may consider a work by Mike Mearls to be worth more than Bruce Cordell...but did it cost more for one to write an article about Psionics than the other?  What if I changed it to Ryan Nock or Ben Durbin?</blockquote>