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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6302987" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I'm similar to Kinak, though, just I pay for Netflix. £6.99/month for that amount of entertainment is several orders of magnitude ahead of D&D played at the suggested rate.</p><p></p><p>Moving away from $/hour (which I feel is a bit misleading as intensity, memorable-ness and so on all play in to perceived value of entertainment), I will say that, at $50, am I very definitely going to be expecting a quality bloody book and not a lot of wasted space and so on. The DMG in particular would have to literally be the best the DMG ever written to justify that, and unless Robin D. Laws is one of the authors, I have might doubts that it will be that (indeed, the usual standard of DM advice in D&D products is mediocre-to-bad* by industry standards - though 4E was a massive improvement over 3E in this regard - in some books it actually reached the standard of "good advice"!).</p><p></p><p>* = 1E/Early 2E DM advice was frequently beyond bad and into the realms of "actively harmful to good play and pleasant play experiences", with Gygax' unofficial guide to DMing (I forget it's name) being pretty much nadir here, but not unrepresentative of some junk in Dragon and other books - Complete Villain being a notable exception.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 6302987, member: 18"] I'm similar to Kinak, though, just I pay for Netflix. £6.99/month for that amount of entertainment is several orders of magnitude ahead of D&D played at the suggested rate. Moving away from $/hour (which I feel is a bit misleading as intensity, memorable-ness and so on all play in to perceived value of entertainment), I will say that, at $50, am I very definitely going to be expecting a quality bloody book and not a lot of wasted space and so on. The DMG in particular would have to literally be the best the DMG ever written to justify that, and unless Robin D. Laws is one of the authors, I have might doubts that it will be that (indeed, the usual standard of DM advice in D&D products is mediocre-to-bad* by industry standards - though 4E was a massive improvement over 3E in this regard - in some books it actually reached the standard of "good advice"!). * = 1E/Early 2E DM advice was frequently beyond bad and into the realms of "actively harmful to good play and pleasant play experiences", with Gygax' unofficial guide to DMing (I forget it's name) being pretty much nadir here, but not unrepresentative of some junk in Dragon and other books - Complete Villain being a notable exception. [/QUOTE]
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