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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6712314" data-attributes="member: 22424">Price isn't linear with page count. The first page is by far the most expensive. Also, the size of the print run matters a great deal - WotC have been printing a lot of copies of a very few products, which helps a great deal. Switch that to one smaller product every couple of months, and you get a correspondingly shorter print run, and so a higher cost per unit.How many copies of "Lost Mine" did they print? My guess would be of the order of 100,000. By contrast, I'd be surprised if many of the standalone adventures from the 3e era hit 10,000 sales.It's also worth noting that "Lost Mine" doesn't have a cover, which makes a difference (albeit a fairly small one, given the need for the box).Oh, and of course the Starter Set was deliberately priced to sell as widely as possible. They'll have deliberately set the profit margin on that one of the minimum value they can get away with. They won't do that for other adventures.I'll be very surprised if we ever again see a print D&D-RPG 5e product from WotC that is not hardback, is not full-colour, is less than 250 pages, or is less than $30. I think we're more likely to see them give away short adventures for free (either in Dragon+ or in a new eDungeon).The market just doesn't seem to make the 40-page softcover a viable proposition any more. Certainly not for WotC, but not really for anyone else either. (Paizo are a bit of a special case, because of their subscription model. But even they have cut down on the smaller products, and especially smaller adventures.) Fewer, bigger, more deluxe products seems to be the future.But I might be wrong, of course.</blockquote>

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