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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Callahan09" data-source="post: 6302239" data-attributes="member: 6721803">I am a collector of D&D products and I'm interested in playing the new game, so I'm definitely buying all of these core books (already pre-ordered them in fact).  But, I have to question their strategy in pricing the core books at $50 each.  Compare to Pathfinder, still their strongest competition by far and I don't see them just blowing them out of the water, especially not with this pricing strategy...The Bestiaries / Advanced Player's Guide / GameMastery Guide are all comparable products in a way to the core 3 from D&D, and in this case each and every one of them is the same size and format, a 320pp full-color Hardcover.  When the MSRP is $40 on the Pathfinder options, why does Wizards feel the need to go to $50 on their offerings?  It's the same in terms of physical production (printing, binding, page count, and most likely quality & quantity of art), so that price increase really hurts.It may not hold up, but Amazon's discount is also between 30-40% on the Pathfinder books, vs closer to 20% on the new D&D books.Pathfinder's $50 product is a 576pp core rulebook.  That single $50 book includes basically the content you'd expect from both a Player's Handbook and a Dungeon Master's Guide, and it contains 90% of the 640 pages that those two books encapsulate.  For Wizards to charge that same price for just one of their 320pp books really feels like it's over-priced.If they don't have a licensing system in place that can help generate tons of third party content for the game the way Pathfinder continues to get, then I think the combination of higher prices, split up content, and a lack of third party content, are all going to make this edition have just as hard of a time as the 4th edition, and it's astonishing to me that Wizards would allow themselves to falter in comparison to Pathfinder with two editions in a row.  So perhaps they'll get the licensing right?  They need to do SOMETHING to offset the negative impact of being the worst cost-value proposition of the two major systems.Am I totally off-base, or what does everybody else think?</blockquote>

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