Game book pricing

[Quasqueton]

Assuming you wanted/needed it for your game, is $12 a reasonable price for a 128-page D&D book? Is it low, too high?

How about $4.50 for a 16-page D&D adventure module (printed)?

Quasqueton

 

[Crothian]

Both of those seem reasonilbe if not a little cheap.

 

[diaglo]

Assuming you wanted/needed it for your game, is $12 a reasonable price for a 128-page D&D book? Is it low, too high?

How about $4.50 for a 16-page D&D adventure module (printed)?

Quasqueton

i paid $12 for the 1edADnD DMG. it was overpriced back then.

i paid $4.50 for G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief... again overpriced.

 

[S'mon]

I'd pay more than that. I paid £10/$19 for Castles & Crusades & it seemed quite cheap.

 

[Xath]

I payed $20 for each of my 128 page Mongoose Quintessential books. Seems like a reasonable price to me.

 

[Celebrim]

Assuming you wanted/needed it for your game, is $12 a reasonable price for a 128-page D&D book? Is it low, too high?

Absolutely. That's about right in my opinion. Typically, you'll see them ask $14.95 or $16.95 for 128 pages. By the time you get up to $19.95, I'm getting really skeptical. But $12 is reasonable enough that I don't feel like I have to need the whole book in order to make it worthwhile.

How about $4.50 for a 16-page D&D adventure module (printed)?

That's too high. Frankly, the ammount of work in a 16 page D&D module represents (sans art) less than what I could crank out on a weekly basis, and considering that I feel you need to spend several hours converting and elaborating on most published modules the few hours I save isn't worth it for me. I mean, I DM for fun. Maybe once I've got kids I'll feel differently about the time, but more importantly, Dungeon Magazine represents a much much better investment. For about the same price you'd get 4-5 modules of that length, and the quality is often really really high because they are getting ideas from across the entire fanbase.

 

[DragonLancer]

Both seem like reasonable prices to me.

 

[trancejeremy]

The going price for 128 page books these days seems to be $22 or so. (Book prices go up about $2 every 2 years seemingly)

A 16 page module is a bit of an aberrrration. I think Goodman Games put out one of the Dungeon Crawl classics that size, but at a special price ($2?). That's the only 16 page module I can think of. But then those little mini adventures from AEG/FFG were basically 8 pages. Those were $3-4.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Too low and too high, respectively. (Frankly, I think 16 page anything these days is just too small to sell in print).

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

Seems like pretty good prices by the current standards, actually.