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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaer" data-source="post: 4022724" data-attributes="member: 57861">Wouldn't the $10 would be pretty close to a simple adjustment of price due to inflation?  I would expect them to need to cost more, all things considered.  If the prices never increased, eventually, WotC would loose money publishing books.The rest of your arguement seems to be more against the fact that once was core now no longer is, which is a valid point, sure, but to say 4e made it more costly to play a core class/race combo that I liked isn't quite the case.  4e made it more costly to play a 3.5 core class/race combo...a core 4e combo still requires only the first 3 books.I would expect the core from edition to edition to remain similar, but not exaclty the same.  It seems to me like this is one of the biggest problems people have against 4e: it did not rehash and reprise everything core in 3.5.  4e met my expectations on this point, but seems to have failed overs.But I will agree 4e will be expensive.  As a DM, I would be buying all 3 core release books.  My 5 players would pick up 4 new PHB (two of my players are married, so only need 1 book between them).  I end up spending the most, and always have throughout the game: I'm the only one with 4 different books of monsters, a DMG 2, a MIC, and one of the two of us with PHB2.  We all have SC.  So as a group, it is very costly, but I bear the burden of most of it (not that I need all the monster books, but I like the variety).So my group has decided to have a little reading party when 4e comes out.  We're going to head to the nearest megabooks store, grab a couple copies of the core books, get some coffee, and sit down and read them.  If we like what we read, we'll buy them and try the switch.  If we end up not liking the changes, we'll decide against it.  As the DM, I could say that I am only DMing 4e and force a switch, I guess, but I feel this is a decision we need to make as a group, and one that we need more info to actually make.  All of the 4e previews have been cool, and it has gotten me excited for the new edition, but it is not enough info for me to decide whether it is worth the switch.</blockquote>

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