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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Uta-napishti" data-source="post: 8611925" data-attributes="member: 7026422">Personally, I would rather have a single hardcover book, but we have to remember the original Spelljammer set was also in multiple parts.I just pulled out my Spelljammer boxed set from 1989, and it was $18 U.S. back then. Inside are 2 x 96 page flimsy softcover booklets with color covers and B&W interior art = 192 pages, 4 Full color one sided poster maps, and 18 ship stat cards with color illustration on one side and B&W stats on the back.  The new set is 3x64 page hard covers with full color interior art = 192 pages, a GM screen, and a poster map. What this means is that they are providing the same amount of printed material as back then, and similarly split between DM and player resources, but the modern (interior) art and production values will be better in 2022 than in 1989. I do still find $70 quite high, and would rather a $50-60 price point for a single hardcover book personally, but spliting the books up, I can see how they got to $70 through the better bindings x3 and the full color interior art alone.As a related excercise this inflation calculator, -- fair warning, it has has exactly zilch to do with the publishing industry -- suggests $18 in 1989 would work out to $42 bucks today. <a href="https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1989?amount=18" target="_blank">$18 in 1989 → 2022 | Inflation Calculator</a>   Again, see previous paragraphs for why the new spelljammer will have to be more expensive than this.</blockquote>

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