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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Carlsen" data-source="post: 6272313" data-attributes="member: 61749">I love Savage Worlds, but the $9.99 Explorer's Edition is a flimsy digest book published abroad. They make small margins on it (note all the softcover compendiums cost $19.99), and I've had several fall apart. The hardcover version of Savage Worlds Deluxe was also printed abroad, is 160 pages, and cost $29.99.The better the materials you use, the more expensive the book. Plus Wizards of the Coast has put forth a much larger art and development effort that Pinnacle can. Costs of production and shipping have gone up across the board faster than inflation. Who knows where they might be publishing it. And finally, it's entirely reasonable for a company to sell the core rules at a notable profit. The MSRP is then set so that the store can also make a profit.Now, I'm not telling you that you have to value these things, or be willing to pay the price offered. Just that it is not necessarily a ripoff.The easiest way, as you say, to up the value proposition, is to include more content. The increased cost of publishing, printing, and shipping of extra pages is not linear. So, the larger the book, the better the price per page. Which is why I agree that a Rules Cyclopedia style book would be a good call.</blockquote>