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Message: <blockquote data-quote="generalchaos34" data-source="post: 5674966" data-attributes="member: 96769">Im gonna have to agree with this, regardless of what you think may or may not be a good deal, you simply cant put out a hard cover book with all color pages and expect for turn a profit for anything less than $20, like any business, they have employees, overhead, etc, and the cost of production is always increasing. Most places sell this stuff for cheaper because they are selling items at greater quantities, like amazon, or small stores charge book price because they wont make many sales, few players outside of DMs will use this book, so its sales are already limited. I buy the books because I enjoy reading them, I dont go into a store, read the <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> out of their books and leave, I pay for it. its just the way things work, I expect people to pay me a fair price for the products I sell, so I will do them the same and buy their products at price. Now I wont argue that $40 is a bit pricey, but you are getting it at the "convenience" price of being able to walk in the store, look at it, and take it home with you that day, when you want to save you get the inconvenience of waiting a couple of days for something youve never seen to come in the mail, something im willing to do to get some extra cash, but I also frequent the local store and drop some cash for the pricier items because 1. I wanted it now and 2. I like to support local businesses if i can, although their inventory sucks. And to the actual point at hand, I love this book, its lots of great ideas that can bee used just about anywhere! Dark sorcerers raising a crashed sky city? check. An undead acropolis with a giant dragon skeleton and living walls? check! A secret aberrant group hiding in plain sight and driving people insane while pretending to help them? Check! A lost dwarven city inhabited by the Duregar, Illithid AND insane elemental beings? CHECK! Sure theres not alot of detail, but the overreaching idea is what I need, then if im being lazy i plunder DDI for similarly leveled encounters in other adventures, reskin the monsters and BLAMO, instant dungeon but with my own flavor and a better story arc.I can't see what there isnt to love about this book as a DM, plus theres some sexy themes that can be easily refluffed as needed, but as written are excellent for lazy PCs who hate to RP, and it keeps me from forcing them create a backstory for Conan Von Hugedong the Ranger.PS: Also loved Hammerfast and Vor Rukoth, great books that I have plundered ruthlessly for their vague and extremely excellent ideas.</blockquote>

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