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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6302276" data-attributes="member: 22424">I put together a list of the editions with their prices at release and adjusted for inflation. It can be found <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?353385-Cost-of-D-amp-D-Editions-then-and-now" target="_blank">here</a>.Do you have a source for that? I ask because that was the one price I couldn't get a definitive answer on - I can find the $12 price for a couple of years later, but nothing from 1978 itself. (The adverts in The Dragon didn't give a price.) So, being able to put an actual source to that number would be great.Possibly. They obviously feel that the market will bear this price point, and they're probably correct. It's also possible that 5e will be less reliant on supplements (and, indeed, less supported with supplements) than any WotC edition, and so they want a bigger markup on the core rules to make up for that. Or it could just be a mandate from on high that they price it at that level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6302276, member: 22424"] I put together a list of the editions with their prices at release and adjusted for inflation. It can be found [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?353385-Cost-of-D-amp-D-Editions-then-and-now"]here[/URL]. Do you have a source for that? I ask because that was the one price I couldn't get a definitive answer on - I can find the $12 price for a couple of years later, but nothing from 1978 itself. (The adverts in The Dragon didn't give a price.) So, being able to put an actual source to that number would be great. Possibly. They obviously feel that the market will bear this price point, and they're probably correct. It's also possible that 5e will be less reliant on supplements (and, indeed, less supported with supplements) than any WotC edition, and so they want a bigger markup on the core rules to make up for that. Or it could just be a mandate from on high that they price it at that level. [/QUOTE]

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