dave2008
Legend
Do you want it?It's three (slim) hardback books in a box. I was nearly right.
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space | Dungeons & Dragons
See the pic.
I'm not going to be able to afford this.
D&D 5E What was the 'new format'?
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NaturalZero
Hero
The new format: less pages, more covers between them.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
And significantly more expensive!
(Deserving snark aside, I think it's a cool product. Just probably a bit steep for what you get.)
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Well, you are a store owner: what's the going price for smaller books?
FitzTheRuke
Legend
How do you mean? The 5e Hardcovers? MSRP has been $49.99 USD. This box set is, if I'm not mistaken, $69.99.
As to your earlier discussion RE: printing costs, it's my experience that the three hardcovers and the box set will cost WotC quite a bit more than it would to add pages to a single book. This is an expensive way to go, but it might make for a good product lay-out wise. I look forward to seeing what they do.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
I mean for other games. Earlier, someone brought up some Sandy Petersen 5E books thst were 64 pages and cost $25 each. Wondering if thst matches what you have seen.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Seems pretty standard for a hardcover around that size, sure.
Price points are a funny thing, though. They often don't tie as directly to cost of production as we would expect them to. (For example, I am utterly convinced that WizKids' Gargantuan Tiamat (MSRP about $400) does not cost Necca 10x as much to make as their $40 huge dragons. MORE, sure, but I doubt 10x as much. But it reaches a "High-End Product" threshold, where they know that it's going to cost enough that only people with money to burn will buy it, so why not push the price up? I honestly think that they could have priced her at $200 instead of $400 and still had room to profit, but they'd probably not sell more than twice as many (which they'd have to do quite a few more, if they made it half the price).
I think I might be a weird businessman in that I'd be happy with making the same amount of money if I provided for the desires of twice as many fans, but I don't make a very good modern capitalist, I'm afraid.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Maybe? I don't hate the idea, and one of my players has expressed an interest. But I don't think I can justify the cost.
NaturalZero
Hero
Changing format to something that actually costs more to produce in an environment of supply chain issues and wild inflation is a strange move, IMO. The disappointing thing as a fan is that this is likely to be the only non-adventure Spelljammer release, which means that we're stuck with less campaign content than previously covered settings.
