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Message: <blockquote data-quote="orangefruitbat" data-source="post: 6274848" data-attributes="member: 3013">I care more about value than price$50 doesn't bother me if I think I'm getting good value. Cutting stuff out to reduce the price also reduces the value.I think WOTC picked $50 because the Pathfinder book is $50, and they are the obvious competitor. I don't think the D&D brand is automatically worth a significant price premium. Logically, if they are matching their competitor on price, they need to match Pathfinder on content as well. Full colour, great art. And page count - WOTC is not going to be able to get away with a slender 208 page book when PF is a phonebook.  So they need all the core races and classes (which they've promised), and a good amount of options for each of those - which could easily be 400+ pages. A comprehensive PHB also has the advantage that it will sell much better than any expansion, so they might as well put most of the options in the first book. For players who want a lighter D&D, that's what the starter set will be for (and hopefully it won't suck). I'm not sure if WOTC will fully abandon the standard 3 volume strategy and go to 2 like Paizo did. Really, the only DM content that needs to be in the PHB is some magic items, and the PHB would basically be a complete game (sans the monsters).</blockquote>