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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 1145607" data-attributes="member: 725">#1 Although doable, it's not cost efficient for a publisher, especially with full color products. If there wasn't a limited edition HC and normal version, the HC version would cost only $40, instead of $50. Most D20/OGL publisher figure (rightly so) that they would come out ahead if they printed only one version of their rulebook. When 70% of your potential customers demand HC full color rulebooks, and you'll sell those to 90% of your potential customers, then you'll see that you'll probably do what's most cost efficient.#2 There are already a LOT of rules and variants out there in D20/OGL land. I think that most of the customer base are looking less at only rules content and more at 'fluff' and 'eye-candy' content, some rules are still important, but less than when the D20/OGL rush began...Even if 'some' people find $50 to much, publishers have to consider to:- print more, lower price to $45, and hopefully sell more (very risky for publishers)- make those 'some' want to buy a $50 product (see the pretty pictures, see the kewl rules, see the kewl story line).- accept that there will always be people that will find the price to heigh, the color wastefull, to much this, to little that, etc. And learn the lesson, YOU CAN'T PLEASE EVERYONE!</blockquote>