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Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnNephew" data-source="post: 611748" data-attributes="member: 2171">Cergorach,I understand that some people may not buy the book because it is too expensive for them.  We're definitely taking a risk by making this a one huge book, the biggest monster book yet, for $45 rather than, say, two or three smaller volumes with bigger type at $25 to $35 each, or a half dozen 64-page softcover books at $15 each (the size and price of Green Ronin's fine monster books Legions of Hell and Jade Dragons and Hungry Ghosts, for example).  For those who wonder why it costs what it does, I just wanted to provide an explanation.  I hope the argument of $45 for one volume versus $90 for six volumes with the same amount of content will make itself on the store shelves.You're right that some consumers don't care about whether creators get paid reasonably, or at all -- but we already have the risk that consumers like that are waiting to get scanned copies off the net for free anyhow.  (I've noticed that the cheap price of certain books doesn't stop the pirates from trading them.)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I hope the amount of material this book provides will make it a very good value, and the kind of definitive work that will earn it a spot on a game retailer's shelf for years to come.  We won't know until it's out on the market.This is a good idea.  We'll see if we get a chance to work it into the promotional plans.  (I haven't gotten to the end yet, but some of the material in the appendixes might serve the purpose and be easy to PDFify.)</blockquote>

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