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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9035659" data-attributes="member: 85555">To be honest 70 is a pretty steep cut off for me. I just wouldn't spend that on an RPG book. That said, cheeper doesn't have to mean lower quality. I don't know what WOTCs pre-production and production costs are, so I can't say where they may be able to cut. Personally I prefer black and white to full color, so I would be fine with them making that kind of change (or at least reducing the amount of full color art). The 5E books had a lot of full color art in them. But people are going to have different opinions on that. When it comes to the page count, I would prefer lower page count even if the overall price is still more (I think the key thing is keeping these cover prices under 50). One thing I notice with WOTC books is they probably could have a bit more brevity to them. Again this is a flavor and taste thing, so not everyone will agree. Still I would imagine that those kinds of costs are a bigger price cover consideration for smaller companies like myself than WOTC. Given how much marketing they do, and that they have full time staff, I am guessing a lot of the cost is going into things we don't see (which isn't to say they are unimportant things, I just think focusing on art, writing, editing etc and having the argument be do want these things or a higher cost might not be the complete picture and it might unfairly put the creatives on the front line of this debate)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 9035659, member: 85555"] To be honest 70 is a pretty steep cut off for me. I just wouldn't spend that on an RPG book. That said, cheeper doesn't have to mean lower quality. I don't know what WOTCs pre-production and production costs are, so I can't say where they may be able to cut. Personally I prefer black and white to full color, so I would be fine with them making that kind of change (or at least reducing the amount of full color art). The 5E books had a lot of full color art in them. But people are going to have different opinions on that. When it comes to the page count, I would prefer lower page count even if the overall price is still more (I think the key thing is keeping these cover prices under 50). One thing I notice with WOTC books is they probably could have a bit more brevity to them. Again this is a flavor and taste thing, so not everyone will agree. Still I would imagine that those kinds of costs are a bigger price cover consideration for smaller companies like myself than WOTC. Given how much marketing they do, and that they have full time staff, I am guessing a lot of the cost is going into things we don't see (which isn't to say they are unimportant things, I just think focusing on art, writing, editing etc and having the argument be do want these things or a higher cost might not be the complete picture and it might unfairly put the creatives on the front line of this debate) [/QUOTE]

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