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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Setanta" data-source="post: 178553" data-attributes="member: 2183">I'm probably the target demographic for a $100 product. I bought over $400 worth of d20 stuff last month alone, and as a DM I have more money than time or patience. However, I wouldn't buy a $100 product that includes a significant number of miniatures (enough to make me think that some serious portion of the list price was going to miniatures I'll never use). I'm quite happy with FDP's counters, and I wouldn't want to introduce a few random miniatures to the mix. I would pay $100 for something that makes my life easier. I have Freeport and Bluffside, and like both, but I would have paid $100 for a city supplement that goes much further. For example, more stats for more NPC's, floorplans for every important building, more history, etc. I would want more organizations, and more details on how various NPC's and organizations interract with each other (like the stuff in Penumbra's Belly of the Beast for the NPC's). I want more history. And, I don't want plot hooks spelled out. If the setting is rich enough, the plot hooks will be self evident (that's not a complaint about plot hooks being included in books like Freeport, it's just that by the time I get to the hook at the end of a place description, it's usually obvious to me already). Something very important (to me) in a $100 product would be to include a CD that includes all maps in CC2 format and all NPC's in PCGen format (and hopefully RPM and DMF format as well, but PCGen is good enough). A city the size of Bluffside or Freeport could easily be 500+ pages, with hundreds of fully statted NPC's along with their personalities, motivations, and relationships to other NPC's mapped out.I don't know that I'd pay $100 for a complete campaign as others have suggested, but I would pay for a complete campaign setting. I love making up plots and stories, but I don't have time for all the details like every relevant NPC's stats. So, I tend to spend my money on products that make my life easier, whether that's a sourcebook or adventure that I can easily incorporate into my plots.</blockquote>

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