Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 8360818" data-attributes="member: 4348">There are several costs that have gone up recently.  What was sold over the past few quarters and such were printed at earlier times, and in many cases, already were at the warehouses and other locations.Wood costs (books and cards are paper) have shot up through the roof.  Transportation costs (not just on shipping, as fuel prices and trucking prices have risen, so have shipping costs risen on land transport) have risen all across the board.  The new items being printed cost more to print and to ship at this point.  This price increase probably isn't something that is going to be drastic, but a small incremental cost to hopefully bring in similar profit margins in relation to the rising costs.What should alarm people FAR more is the WHY this is happening.  My OWN personal take is that this is a reflection of the price increases occurring all over right now.  Many say the prices will go back down.  They may...to a small amount but from the corporate veiwpoint (from what I see) the smart guys over at Hasbro's economic forecasting are saying that much of it is going to remain high for the foreseeable future.  The price increase means the prices will probably rise permanently.  This is because they do NOT see a rosy future of prices returning to what they were, but several of the price increases remaining, which also cause publishing and transportation of the gaming materials to be more expensive to produce.It is a sign I think you will see occurring elsewhere in corporations and businesses.  It's a sign that they are NOT seeing that the prices will return to what they were two years ago...and that prices may remain high for the foreseeable future on ALL items...or at least many of the items we have seen price increases on recently (food included).</blockquote>

Verification