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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 4237121" data-attributes="member: 40177">You know, I've heard a lot of people griping about the cost of gaming these days.  Books cost too much, and so on.  I'm not sure I buy that.Really, keeping general economic inflation in mind, I'd say that RPG prices have actually decreased in the last ten or fifteen years.Last week, I was at my FLGS, looking to buy Shadowrun 4e's GM screen.  I found the screen, and saw that it cost 18.99$ (I'm so happy stores are switching to american prices in my region!  How cool!?).  No biggie.I also found, on the same shelf, some old SR 2e books.  And one product they had was the 2e Shadowrun GM screen.  While it had a price tag on it around eight bucks, the original price (the one by the UPC) was 14.99$.  Only four bucks cheaper than my current GM screen.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> says that the 2nd Edition came out in 1992, while the 4th edition came out in 2005 - thirteen years difference.  And only four bucks seperate them.I don't know the inflation numbers from that span, but something tells me that the price in relation to it's buying power has more or less stayed steady.***Another case in point, although this is a bit hazier.  When I was younger, perhaps 13 or so, I bought the 2e Monstrous Compendium... for fifty bucks.   This was about 12 years ago.  The average monster manual these days costs... less than fifty bucks.  A book the same size as the monstrous Compendium (200+ pages) costs 54$ or so now.  So, they're about the same price, despite the fact that more than ten years seperates them.***I dunno.  I'm no econonmist, but I'm finding fault with all these people recently complaining about the "RPG Inflation".  Personally, I don't see it.</blockquote>

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