How Much Would You Pay For TB:P in Print?

[mythusmage]

I'm looking through The Bestiary: Predators and it strikes me, in production alone this is a damn good piece of work. In layout and graphics it works as a good example for other publishers. Add in the writing and you've got a product it's well worth your while to purchase.

So I have this question for you: How much would you be willing to pay for The Bestiary: Predators in print?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Never heard of it.

And since I don't buy PDFs of any kind, I'd ONLY buy it in book form. Softcover $14-20USD, Hardbound $25-40 would be typical if the product is of average size.

 

[mythusmage]

Dan,

It's a $20.00 PDF greatly undervalued at $14.00. Comes with two PDFs, one with the book itself, the other with 5 cover pages. It's time to get over your animosity against PDFs.

 

[Alzrius]

I'm also in the process of reading the book to write a review. That said, I think this poll needs some retooling. For one, this shouldn't have an "Adventures" tag. For another, people could use a link so they know what the product is about. Also, assigning rankings of how cool each price is kinda skews the poll, as I really like this product so far, but even I don't think it should cost $60 in print.

Just my two cents.

 

[Capellan]

Actually, this is the kind of product I would only ever buy in PDF, because I don't think I would get enough utility to justify paying for print.

And to be honest, for the specific subject matter in question, $14 is more than I would want to pay anyway. It doesn't matter how well the book does what it's aiming to do: I'm just not that interested in stats for real world predatory animals.

But given the good rep this book is getting, if Betabunny covered a subject I was interested in, I'd definitely check it out.

 

[IronWolf]

Missing a couple of options from the poll me thinks! First, I don't believe I had heard of the product before this. But having looked at the link someone else posted, I don't think this is a book I would pick up in print. PDF maybe, but not print. So for me I would be in the $0 for print version of it.

 

[trancejeremy]

This is a rather odd poll. I think a lot of books are fabulous, but I would balk at paying $60 for them. And if I'm not enthused, I wouldn't buy it period, much less at $30. Losing the descriptors would make sense.

(Also, I already have Dweomercraft: Familiars, which has stats for pretty much every animal I would use want to use in a game. And I think the print version is around $15 or so)

 

[MrFilthyIke]

You're pricing is way off in this poll. Juding the approximate page count, quality of layout, and good detail, this should sit around $30-$35 for a hardback copy.

 

[comrade raoul]

This looks like a really specialized book, and sixty bucks seems absurd. Even the book is gorgeously presented and perfectly balanced, would having huge amounts of information about predatory animals really improve most games? I think most people pay for utility -- quality products are important, but mainly because balanced and thoughtful rules are more useful, and good presentation and writing adds to the fun. A lovingly researched and brilliantly laid-out book on Mongolian yurts in d20 wouldn't be worth five bucks, let alone twenty, and this book only looks marginally better.

 

[Seeker95]

I can't vote since the options don't give me one I can agree with. What people think of the product has no realtion to the prices yuo've assigned such opinions to. Lose the tags and see what people are willing to pay.