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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6270284" data-attributes="member: 37579">Movies tend to my go-to comparison. How does <product X> compare to an evening at the movies with popcorn and a drink. Which is like $15-20 for a couple hours.  I agree that the per/hour value of D&D is excellent compared to something like movies. Even if you're not playing weekly (which I'd love to do but will never happen). I'm lucky to get 100 hours of playtime in a year. 100 hours of movies would be $1000. But D&D has a cost/hour of $1.50. Which is pretty cheap. Moreso if you can divide the cost among friends. However, it is a one-time purchase. Many people will have to save up their "mad money" for a couple months to afford the $150 purchase. It's an investment that pays off over time but has an high initial fee, which is something that not everyone likes. Especially when most other RPGs on the market are all-in-one books that run $50. So D&D is equivalent of buying three different RPGs at once. So you could buy Numenera, Eclipse Phase, and 13th Age or you could buy D&D.And, again, $50 is what they were charging for collector's edition books with fancy covers and a low print run. As it will almost certainly have a much larger print run, the PHB had better have similar production values and quality but a larger size, or be a fantastic looking looking book.</blockquote>