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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 6270700" data-attributes="member: 78752">Sorry to pick on you, Bedrock; you're just the last person to say it.What about $130?That's what the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, Gamemastery Guide, and Bestiary cost, in total -- and what they have cost since their release in 2009-2010.  If you assume an equivalent value between the D&D5 PHB and Pathfinder Core Rulebook, thanks to inflation you're actually getting a $5 discount on the PHB.The Bestiary is as critical to Pathfinder play as the Monster Manual is to D&D.  You could argue that the Gamemastery Guide is not as important, but the D&D4 Dungeon Master Guide served a similar purpose -- the PHB contained all the rules needed for play.It's true that in recent history there has been a single price point for all three core D&D books, and that in the 20th century, the rules for play were more-or-less evenly distributed among all three books.  But there's no solid justification for the assumption that D&D5 will follow either of these incomplete trends.Particularly when you consider that Wizards is apparently releasing the core books separately, which flies in the face of a lesson I thought they learned after the hue and cry over D&D3's launch.  To me, the staggered launch is a more solid indicator that we can expect different book organization than anything Wizards or TSR has done historically.TL;DR: I'm not sure why everyone is freaking out about this.  This price point is the definition of reasonable.</blockquote>

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