Impressions from KotS

[Family]

$30 will fill up my car completely with gasoline--and that's saying something with today's gas prices.

$30 will feed me, my girlfriend, and her son for lunch at a good quality restaurant.

$30 is what the average person in America makes at a job after working nearly a whole day.

$30 is what I expect to pay for the average full-color hardback D&D rulebook that is a couple hundred pages long.

$30 is not what I expect to pay for a softback adventure printed on tissue paper with smudgy ink and recycled maps.

Unfortunately, though, I did pay $30.

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And these nice people applaude you (and I) for it.

 

[D'karr]

Unfortunately, though, I did pay $30.

That's called a self-inflicted wound.

 

[Contents May Vary]

$30 is what the average person in America makes at a job after working nearly a whole day.

Average wage in the US in 2006 was over $38,000 which (if we divide by 365) is $104.

If you assume the average person works 6 days a week rather than 7, that goes up to $121 per day. Just saying.

 

[the Jester]

$30 will feed me, my girlfriend, and her son for lunch at a good quality restaurant.

Damn, not where I live. A decent (not great) restaurant, lunch for two will run about $25 here.

 

[hexgrid]

Unfortunately, though, I did pay $30.

I only paid $19.77. If you paid the full $30, you're paying for something more than what the product is worth on it's own. That "something more" might be support to your LGS or other independent business, or maybe the convenience of shopping at a chain store without signing up for their discount program.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Damn, not where I live. A decent (not great) restaurant, lunch for two will run about $25 here.

Maybe his girlfriend and son don't eat that much?

Considering the notable price and wages differences between the north and south (and west and east) in a small country like Germany, I can only guess how big the differences can be in the USA.

 

[nerfherder]

$30 will fill up my car completely with gasoline--and that's saying something with today's gas prices.

Yeah, that your gas is really cheap! I worked out that I paid nearly $8.50 for a US gallon the other week. RPG products look positively bargain basement...

 

[prismra]

Hey, guys! Quick question. How should I handle all the "little maps" in the books that don't come in the package as a poster.

I have invested in a bunch of minis (because I really love the tactical wargame aspect) and I'd like to have all my encounters take place on some sort of gameboard.

Should I invest in the dungeon tiles or use 1"x1" graph paper and sketch out the rooms or what?

Thanks in advance for any information.

 

[Heselbine]

Best thing I ever bought was a Chessex battlemat and some wipeable pens. I would recommend this approach.

 

[LowSpine]

As I see it, a PC caught asleep by an assassin isn't going to get his throat cut unless critical-hit damage is enough to kill him outright. Hit points are much more emphatically "plot armor" in 4e. An assassin who does 30 points of damage in coup de grace punishment to a PC that has 31 hit points never actually touches him in my world- some random event intervenes to wake up the PC a moment before the knife lands, or distracts the assassin at just the right time. The PC's still left at 1 hit point worth of narrative protection, but he's not physically hurt at all.

I'm almost with you, but not quite.

In my version the sleeping character wakes up just in time to grab the assassin's wrist and stop the blade cutting the artery (? I can't spell, but I know it isn't that.) The victim pushes the assassin off him with blood pooring down his chest, but the wound isn't mortal.

This just reminded me of Marathon Man when that assassin has a garot and he manages to put his hand in the way in time.