D&D 4E the Price of 4E

[mcrow]

I think for add-on books a price range of 35-50 bucks is reasonable but core books in that price range I think is bad.
Personally Im not going to pay more than 30. Even if I where going to get 4e Amazon would have been where I got my books from.

To be fair, he didn't say wether it was the core books or not.

I'm not pretending that this is the most reliable info, distributors (neither are game store managers for that matter)are not always the best source of info as any game store owner can tell you.

I more or less was putting this out there to see if anyone else had heard the same thing.

 

[Piratecat]

The core books need to be as inexpensive as economically possible, ideally in the $25-$30 range. This is a lesson that Ryan Dancy preached and that (hopefully) current management hasn't forgotten.

 

[dagger]

Even if they are 50 bucks, we can still get them online with a 30% discount at the least.

 

[mcrow]

The core books need to be as inexpensive as economically possible, ideally in the $25-$30 range. This is a lesson that Ryan Dancy preached and that (hopefully) current management hasn't forgotten.

yeah, that's part of what i thought they were going for with 4E. Maybe they still are.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I don't think Amazon is all that accurate, so I wouldn't put too much stock in that price.

Preorder it and they'll honor it. I'm getting the 4E PHB for $19, since they foolishly dropped it down that low momentarily a while back. (And if it ever gets priced lower, I get the lower price.)

 

[mcrow]

Preorder it and they'll honor it. I'm getting the 4E PHB for $19, since they foolishly dropped it down that low momentarily a while back. (And if it ever gets priced lower, I get the lower price.)

yup, I've managed to get a couple of good deals off of them because of that.

 

[theredrobedwizard]

Preorder it and they'll honor it. I'm getting the 4E PHB for $19, since they foolishly dropped it down that low momentarily a while back. (And if it ever gets priced lower, I get the lower price.)

Heck, I preordered 5 of them; one for each person in my gaming group. $20 is too good to pass up.

-TRRW

 

[CleverNickName]

Let's see...I'll need all three core rulebooks plus four additional PHBs for my players...and it is tradition that every time I start a new campaign, I get a new set of dice. So I'm looking at about $250-300 to bring my gaming group up to 4E. That's not too bad as far as hobbies go. (My wife's hobby is photography. You want to compare price tags on darkroom equipment?!)

I don't generally buy splatbooks or supplements; I'm content to wait until they turn up in used bookstores.

 

[D'karr]

Let's see...I'll need all three core rulebooks plus four additional PHBs for my players...and it is tradition that every time I start a new campaign, I get a new set of dice. So I'm looking at about $250-300 to bring my gaming group up to 4E. That's not too bad as far as hobbies go. (My wife's hobby is photography. You want to compare price tags on darkroom equipment?!)

I don't generally buy splatbooks or supplements; I'm content to wait until they turn up in used bookstores.

How many times has your wife had to buy the same equipment over, and I'm not talking about the consumables?

Those two things are completely unrelated.

 

[CleverNickName]

How many times has your wife had to buy the same equipment over, and I'm not talking about the consumables?

Those two things are completely unrelated.

Actually...

With the advent of digital photography, and the diminishing interest in "wet film" development, we've had to upgrade most of her stuff on a regular basis (her enlarger, for example, not to mention cameras and lenses.) Photography nowadays is much more computer-focused, requiring special software with regular upgrades in addition to newer equipment, all to achieve the same result that existing wet-film technology can already produce.

The two are more related than you think.