What (type of) Book Would You Spend $100 On?

[Odhanan]

Another possibility: a compilation of all FR geography supplements. You know, Silver Marshes + Unapproachable East + Underdark + Calimshan + Lost Kingdoms of Faerun + + ... you'll probably end up with three volumes instead of one though. But if it's beautifully done, why not.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Now that'd get my money! Otherwise, I don't think I'd pay $100 for any single book, no matter what it was about.

I'd consider paying $100 for a 3.5 rework of T1-4, A1-4, and GDQ 1-9 bound together as a single volume.

 

[Mercule]

What I'd definitely pay $100 for is a long-stretch, but here goes:

Set up a website from which I can pick and choose rules -- include the core three, all the Complete X books, Unearthed Arcana, XPH and some other assorted crunch (thinking, specifically the Artifacer and the Action Point feats from ECS). It doesn't have to have all the rules, just check boxes and section-headers. Now, when I get done checking off everything that I use in my campaign, organize it, compile it, print it, and hard-bind it. Ship it to me. I will use it every game session and for every prep session I have. When it wears out, I'll buy a new one with a smile on my face.

I'd probably pay more than $100 for that.

 

[DaveMage]

I'd spend $100 on any product that I felt was worth it.

The price tag is much less relevant to me than the content.

I won't spend $100 on a book with variant rules - there are already too many optional and variant rules for me to even attempt to try out.

But *using* the rules, such as with adventures or creative campaign settings, now that's the kind of stuff I love. I'd pay $100, $200, or even more if the content was extensive. For example, give me a creative complete campaign that takes PCs from levels 1-40 - with all the monsters and NPCs fully described (I'm talking goals, tactics, and posessions) and I'll happily pay a premium price.

 

[Odhanan]

For example, give me a creative complete campaign that takes PCs from levels 1-40 - with all the monsters and NPCs fully described (I'm talking goals, tactics, and posessions) and I'll happily pay a premium price.

I rely with this a lot as well. A kind of product like the Imperial Campaign of the old Warhammer FRPG or The Masks of Nyarlathotep of CoC. A full campaign with good episodes, a kind of movie feel to it, with NPCs described not only as stat blocks but with believable motivations, an inventive, complex plot yet clear to understand/well written. A campaign that really creates an epic onto itself, like the first Dragonlance modules, but better, building on the experience of RPGs for 30 years rather than a nostalgic approach.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

For instance, if someone published an XPH-like book with rules for a technologist core class, complete with its own device subsystem, I'd pay a hundred dollars for that.

Have you seen this? I haven't really looked at it in detail, but it and the tech warrior look pretty cool.

 

[Ace]

Okay, in this thread the majority of responses indicate that people aren't interested in spending $100 on a monster book. Which leads me to wonder what type of book people would spend $100 on.


In thinking about it, I'd not so much spend $100 on one game book (the size would be so large as to make the book difficult to use) but a box or otherwise collected set of books.

For example, an RPG that included maybe 5 or 6 books -- a DIFFERENT player's handbook for each class and a GM's guide. The idea being that a game group buys this $100 product and each player selects a class. Each PHB includes all of the rules and the rules appropriate/necessary to that class only. The GM's guide includes summaries of the class rules, all of the game rules, plus all of the GM-type stuff.

But what type of (game) book would you spend $100 on?

HMM -- $100 on one book? Well if I had the ultimate book of custom cruch I can use -- I might go for that

It would include the SRD, lots of feats (200) a customer monster list, tons of spells and lost of class options -- kind of like AU/UA, Ravenloft, Fae, Wilderness/City/Dungeon lore, Ultimate Class Book Ultimate Equipment, Ultimate Spells all in one volume

100 pages of very carefully arranged options -- Honestly it would have to be worth say 10 books of 128 pages though --

 

[Nightfall]

A Book of Infinite Wishes.

 

[IronWolf]

An updated Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting detailing every region in the level of detail given in the regional sourcebooks.

This would get my $100.

 

[twofalls]

My game group purchased the Worlds Largest Dungeon, and it was a great deal. The World's Largest City is NOT going to be a $100 book by the way. The price point was so contentious that Alderac decided not to go that route again, which I think, personally, is a shame.

In order to get my next C note single book buy the volume would simply have to be well made, and a good deal. The new Mongoose Monster book, depending on the end product, might be the next one.