The Price of RPGs: You think the US is bad...
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Mystery Man
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Hm. I seem to remember another guy complaining about the price of Mongoose's books and he got ganged up on like the new guy in the prison shower. But thankfully he's not bitter.Ranger REG said:
Azure Trance said:
The core rule books are £20 GBP (about $36 USD). The ELH was more expensive - around £25 GBP IIRC (about $45 USD). The rest of the books are generally around the £20 GBP mark. You can usually get decent discounts on these prices if you buy from amazon. So I figure that means that it's more expensive here (it says on the PHB that it costs $29.95 USD).
johnsemlak
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I'd be great if we could all just move to one place where RPGs are cheap and plentiful. Sort of a gamers' Elysium.Snoweel said:
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masque said:there was a German RPG named EON in a very well-taken care of boxd set.
What is very special about this boxed set is how heavy it is. It is entirely packed with books, all of which were bought separately. It contained the Tracker and Priest splats, the main rulebook, a monster book, and a worldbook (I think, German is about as understandable to me as Korean). The main rulebook had no price on it, but the rest of them did.
Each book had a large white pricetag. Two were 16.900, two were 17.900, both prices in yen. Using a 100 yen to a dollar conversion, that's far too many dollars. Each. Plus the main rulebook.
Makes me feel better about D&D's prices, myself...
That's actually a Swedish RPG, not a German one. It's very popular here, although I don't care for it much personally.
Here's a picture of the cover.
It has no splatbooks per se, so the "Priest splat" was probably the background supplement on religion. The "tracker splat" I'm unsure of. Did it have a black cover?
-V
Here's a short list of RPG prices in Sweden. Keep in mind that foreign RPGs are more expensive that Swedish ones.
3.5 Player's Handbook: 300 SEK ($37)
Epic Level Handbook: 400 SEK ($50)
Complete Warrior: 270 SEK ($33)
As a comparison, I recently saw the EON boxed set (including 300-page rulebook, dice, maps and one adventure) for 240 SEK ($30).
Most expensive RPG book ever seen? Ravenloft Campaign Setting Collectors Edition - 700 SEK ($85). Quite ironic, since it's now in the bargain bin for 120 SEK ($15).
-V
3.5 Player's Handbook: 300 SEK ($37)
Epic Level Handbook: 400 SEK ($50)
Complete Warrior: 270 SEK ($33)
As a comparison, I recently saw the EON boxed set (including 300-page rulebook, dice, maps and one adventure) for 240 SEK ($30).
Most expensive RPG book ever seen? Ravenloft Campaign Setting Collectors Edition - 700 SEK ($85). Quite ironic, since it's now in the bargain bin for 120 SEK ($15).
-V
