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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Giltonio_Santos" data-source="post: 8020864" data-attributes="member: 36874">I can only talk about our reality, but probably yes. In fact, they used to be more expensive. As a middle-class teenager living in one of the richest parts of our country, I could only afford the AD&D 2e books as birthday/Christmas gifts from my parents. Growing up, I could skip lunch and save money for pretty much all the stuff I wanted, but D&D books were an exception at the time.And there's a language barrier as well. Portuguese versions of the books do exist, but they manage to be even more expensive! English classes at a public school in Brazil will not make anyone able to read in English, and private school classes are not much better. You have to go to a language school to learn it, which I believe 90% of our population wouldn't be able to afford even if their lives depended on it (and sometimes they do; knowing English improves your employability a lot around here, with bigger salaries as well).One of these days I'll write an essay "being a teenage gamer in 90's Brazil: fun as playing Contra on hard mode". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL    :ROFLMAO:"  data-smilie="18"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" />Don't worry, no offense taken. I think we should all agree that being in someone else's shoes is no easy task. I'm not campaigning for Wizards, Paizo, or any other creator to ignore someone who raises concerns in good-faith either, I just believe that having a concern doesn't make it automatically worth of consideration, because not all concerns can be easily implemented (I think that's the case with what is or not affordable to different gamers, for example) or are equally valid (I, for one, haven't been convinced that playing as a law officer is offensive on an abstract level, without further context).</blockquote>

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