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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShadowDenizen" data-source="post: 6274234" data-attributes="member: 16485">Wow!I'm glad to generate such vigrous discussion! <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=":)" />And the availability of tools and apps (PFSRD, Mastertools, etc.) also help to lower that entry price point. But purely for the point of this thread, I was curious what people think a reasonable entry fee would be for someone who intends to actually purchase the books needed to play [and/or DM] the game. (Whether it be in Physcial or PDF/Kindle, etc.)And that was my line of thinking when I started the thread.My three-fold line of thought was:A) What is a "Reasonable" fee to get into the hobby?B) What is a good "Core-Rulebook" size?C) At what point are RPG's pricing themselves out of the market?Speaking for myself, my thoughts are...A) Whether you like the Pathfinder ruleset or not, The Pathfinder Starter Box seemed like a ideal jumping-on point for new players, and at a relavtively decent price-point. (IE IF you'd never played an RPG before, you could access the box and start playing within a relatively short amount of time.)B) (Full-confession, I'm a Rules-light gamer!!)  I think 128 pages is a decent size rulebook to start. (Ideally, you could even go for half-that!).  But Core Rulebooks do seem to proliferating in size every year. (Though admittedly, "Core Rulebooks" are often the equivalent of a DMG/PHB/MM and setting book in one- I look at "Edge of the Empire" or "Dresden Files" as an example of that.)C) Again, speaking for me, $50 and under I can justify for a single book without too much effort; over $50, and I start to look at the tangential questions; "What are the reviews?", "WIll I actually USE this?" "Is there a video-game/DVD out I would prefer instead?", etc.</blockquote>

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