(Mongoose) Babylon 5 RPG - Full Details!

[Gallowglass]

Well, the first UK game store I could find a URL for (Leisure Games http://www.leisuregames.co.uk/acatalog/Traveller_d20.html) charges £29.99 for T20, which is about what I paid. And I did think it was a lot, but I am a huge Traveller fan, so it was OK. In general, I shy away from spending more than £20 on any one RPG book (Chaosium CoC supplements are an exception, although only BtMoM has topped that recently).

However, the issue is NOT how much it costs to produce a book here, Pelgrane Press' fabuluous The Kain Players Guide for their Dying Earth RPG was printed in Bangkok! The issue is the price per unit to produce the book set againts the number of units Mongoose think they can sell: they have to pitch the price point so they can make a success of the line (pay the bills, satisfy the customers, please the licensor). My guess, extrapolating from Matt's reaons for going d20 (more space for B5 material), is that production values are intended to be high (lots of colour, stills etc), so the book will have to to be a fair whack.

Although I have just realsied that if they are using still shots from the show, then there may well be some fees involved there...

 

[Jak Shadow]

Ah. Interesting. In the US, most d20 sourcebooks are priced at $30 which is probably not expensive to UK customers, I think.

Maybe in theory, in practise, however, we often get straight dollar --> pound conversions. i.e. something that costs $30 will cost £30, for instance d20 Modern costs £30 over here, dunno how much in the US though, and the original PHB, DMG and MM for 3rd Ed. came out they were £20. I suspect B5 will be about £30 over here and that they are just converting correctly to $'s for the US

 

[Eridanis]

Maybe in theory, in practise, however, we often get straight dollar --> pound conversions.

Oof! Now I see why some folks complain about prices in Europe. That's a 50% markup for no obvious reason. Does that include VAT, though? Then, it might be a bit more reasonable; sales taxes over here in the States tend to be 6 to 9% of cover price, depending on where you live.

 

[AerosAtar]

Oof! Now I see why some folks complain about prices in Europe. That's a 50% markup for no obvious reason. Does that include VAT, though? Then, it might be a bit more reasonable; sales taxes over here in the States tend to be 6 to 9% of cover price, depending on where you live.

V.A.T is only 17.5% (in the UK anyway), however, as I understand it books are non-VAT-able items...

I could be wrong here, I sure have been before and I'm no expert, but I do know I never pay import tax on books...

 

[Ranger REG]

Maybe in theory, in practise, however, we often get straight dollar --> pound conversions. i.e. something that costs $30 will cost £30, for instance d20 Modern costs £30 over here, dunno how much in the US though,

$39.95 US, so nearly $40. I have the d20 Modern Core Rulebook.

It's the same price for Star Wars, Call of Cthulhu, and Wheel of Time ... all single core rulebooks.

 

[Jak Shadow]

$40 ~ £25, and I believe that AerosAtar is correct that books are non-VATable (although I might be wrong) in the UK. WoT, CoC, etc. cost £30 over here (I should know cos I own them all)

 

[Darrin Drader]

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What an odd choice of threads to necromancy for the purpose of spamming. The B5 RPG turned out to be pretty ing good though. Second edition was even better.