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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9798775" data-attributes="member: 7006">Kobold Press doesn't sell at that price because they can... they sell at that price because they have to.  Few people would buy the products otherwise because that's just the reality for most non-WotC 3rd party sellers.All of these companies sell their product at the price for which the market would bear for them.  If Kobold could price their products higher, they would.  No one is selling their products out of the goodness of their heart by discounting everything just to be nice.WotC charges what they do because the market tells them people will pay for it.  And that includes the new Asterion product at $15.  There will be plenty of people who won't care it is only $15 and buy it no questions asked.  Especially those people who play D&D so often that they've known for years if not decades that the amount of worth they've gotten out of their games has covered the costs of these D&D products they've bought hundreds of times over.  So throwing an extra $15 into the pot is a drop in the bucket for what they've already gotten out of the game.If and when WotC's sales slow down on this Asterion product at some point in the future... then they'll drop the price or put it on sale to help juice the buys.  That's how these things always go.  So if someone wants this product but not at the $15 price point... they can just wait a while and see if it eventually will drop.</blockquote>

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