D&D General D&D Book Prices Are Going Up

WotC announced today that D&D books will be increasing in price this year.

Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants will be $59.99 as a preorder and $69.99 thereafter. These will apparently come as physical and digital bundles, so you won’t need to buy the D&D Beyond version separately.

This space is dedicated to communicating clearly and transparently with our players- even when the topic isn’t particularly fun. Since the release of the 2014 D&D core rulebooks, we’ve kept book prices stable. Unfortunately, with the cost of goods and shipping continually increasing, we’ve finally had to make the decision to increase the price of our new release print books. We're committed to creating high-quality products that deliver great value to our players and must increase our prices to accomplish that.

This will go into effect starting with Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants and new releases after Glory of the Giants. Digital pricing is unaffected by this MSRP (manufacturer's suggested retail price) increase, as digital products don’t need to be printed or shipped. The increase also doesn’t impact backlist titles. While we can’t promise that there will never be a change to the prices of digital products and backlist titles, we have no plans to increase either.

Players who purchase the Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants digital-physical bundle through Dungeons & Dragons store can get the bundle for $59.95 for the entire preorder window, which is consistent with our current digital-physical bundle pricing. After the preorder window closes, digital-physical bundle prices will go to $69.95.

 

[Vaalingrade]

No. Not every criticism. Just the ones that get repeated over and over again by the same posters.

I want to wrong a bunch of people so I can be immune to criticism over valid, ongoing and often institutional issues now too.

WotC, you magnificent bastiches, I read your book!

 

[UVAtom]

There are 19 pages on this thread, and I am browsing on my phone, so forgive me if this has already been answered, but will I be able to buy a print+digital version from my FLGS? I’d like to keep supporting them.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yeah, just checking Fizban's, and Chapter 5, Draconomicon, is 84 pages. I can well imagine the equivalent in Fizban's being half as long, given the lengthy personality charts there. That would make the difference.

Here is a rundown of the contents of Bigby from IGN, including significant details on which Monsters are in:

Everything We Know About D&D's Glory of the Giants Sourcebook - IGN

Here's everything we know about Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants, an upcoming sourcebook for Dungeons & Dragons that will focus on giants.

www.ign.com

Thanks this became an even harder skip. No new race, only the Death Giant and Fire Hellion seem interesting.

 

[Parmandur]

Thanks this became an even harder skip. No new race, only the Death Giant and Fire Hellion seem interesting.

Fair enough, for me it's worth it for the maps and tables, not to mention high CR kaiju beasts.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

There are 19 pages on this thread, and I am browsing on my phone, so forgive me if this has already been answered, but will I be able to buy a print+digital version from my FLGS? I’d like to keep supporting them.

I do not know and as far as I know, nothing official has been announced but I have seen it discussed by someone on the D&D You tube channel with Todd Kenrick., I think.

 

[Jaeger]

This space is dedicated to communicating clearly and transparently with our players- even when the topic isn’t particularly fun. Since the release of the 2014 D&D core rulebooks, we’ve kept book prices stable. Unfortunately, with the cost of goods and shipping continually increasing, we’ve finally had to make the decision to increase the price of our new release print books. We're committed to creating high-quality products that deliver great value to our players and must increase our prices to accomplish that.

Inflation is real. Wotc is not lying here.

This is still nothing but a GREEDY Corporate Cash Grab.

"But dude; you just said that Wotc claiming inflation causing cost to rise is real? How is that still a greedy cash grab?"

Simple:

Is Wotc announcing that they are also raising the pay of their employees, and freelancer's by 20% to cover their inflation driven cost of living increases as well?

No, they are not.

(Because if any corporation did such a thing they would sing about it louder than Julie Andrews in the Swiss Alps...)

They will pocket that extra margin as long as they can. Because Greedy corporation gonna greedy cash grab whenever they can.

 

[ad_hoc]

Inflation is real. Wotc is not lying here.

This is still nothing but a GREEDY Corporate Cash Grab.

"But dude; you just said that Wotc claiming inflation causing cost to rise is real? How is that still a greedy cash grab?"

Simple:

Is Wotc announcing that they are also raising the pay of their employees, and freelancer's by 20% to cover their inflation driven cost of living increases as well?

No, they are not.

(Because if any corporation did such a thing they would sing about it louder than Julie Andrews in the Swiss Alps...)

They will pocket that extra margin as long as they can. Because Greedy corporation gonna greedy cash grab whenever they can.

You make a good argument against capitalism but not against any specific corporation.

"Greedy corporation" is like saying "unexpected surprise".

If it was expected it wouldn't be a surprise.

 

[mamba]

Simple:

Is Wotc announcing that they are also raising the pay of their employees, and freelancer's by 20% to cover their inflation driven cost of living increases as well?

have their salaries been constant for the past 10 years? I don’t think so but have no idea

 

[Oofta]

have their salaries been constant for the past 10 years? I don’t think so but have no idea

Why would we know what the salaries of their employees are, why would they announce anything like that to the general public?

People just gotta make excuses to hate.

 

[Jaeger]

You make a good argument against capitalism but not against any specific corporation.

No, I make an argument against Greed.

Greed is a pernicious human failing that does not discriminate, and that history has shown to be pervasive in every economic system.

"Greedy corporation" is like saying "unexpected surprise".

This is true.

have their salaries been constant for the past 10 years? I don’t think so but have no idea

Have their employee salaries, and freelancer pay risen 20% across the board in ten years?

Anyone that has worked for a publicly traded company would know that is a highly unlikely occurrence...