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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 64292" data-attributes="member: 363">To some extent, I have to disagree. It depends on who is going to the theater.  Let me simply post what I posted at RPGnet:"While I see where you're coming from for the most part, the problem here is that you're presupposing that someone is simply going to watch a movie in the theater and walk out, without discussing the film afterwards. A lot of people find movies as entertaining to analyze and discuss as we find RPGs to be to play. In addition, many also find that repeated viewings of a film on DVD or VHS to be as entertaining as RPGs are to gamers. The point is that comparing the two should begin with the assumption that the person playing the RPG will be as interested in his pursuit as the movie viewer is in viewing a film. Obviously a devoted gamer will find playing RPGs to be a better value than a casual player; so too will a film buff get more for his money out of a film than someone who simply goes to the theater occasionally. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that the discussion is about whether D&D is underpriced in general, not simply to RPG fans. Would the average person, whose hobby is not playing RPGs, find the books to be better than a movie's value, again supposing that he or she is not a film buff? What we find endlessly fascinating about RPGs - and which make them a good value to us - may be as lost on the average person as really getting into movies is lost on some of us gamers."</blockquote>

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