Scorpio616
First Post
No. The outsourcing of the printing is making me very uninterested.
D&D 5E Will you pay $50.00 for the "standard" PHB?
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delericho
Legend
FWIW, a couple of years ago I paid $60 (well, the equivalent in £) for the "Black Crusade" core rulebook, at full price. I've since run the game once, have concluded that actually I don't particularly like it and won't run it again, and yet don't regret the purchase.
Put that way, $50 for a PHB I most likely would use more seems much more reasonable.
One thing, though: I balked at then paying $40 for "Hand of Corruption", the adventure for "Black Crusade". While I'm willing to pay premium prices for core rulebooks I will use again and again, I'm much less willing to pay for supplements than I used to be.
Put that way, $50 for a PHB I most likely would use more seems much more reasonable.
One thing, though: I balked at then paying $40 for "Hand of Corruption", the adventure for "Black Crusade". While I'm willing to pay premium prices for core rulebooks I will use again and again, I'm much less willing to pay for supplements than I used to be.
heptat
Explorer
delericho
Legend
I just spent more than $50 on beer. In about 1 hour. PHB here I come!!!!
I should sober up first.
Were they nice beers?
heptat
Explorer
Haha, not really. The nice beers, from my experience, are most likely from the US. Or perhaps Denmark. Not Singapore. Although it's better here than you would imagine. Also Melbourne has some good locally brewed ales. I mean, you know, just FYI.
But seriously, I can see why people would balk at $150 for the "full" game, but...I know I will spend that...and I'm quite looking forward to when D&D Next is finally released.
Imaro
Legend
I voted no, not because I think 5e is a crappy product or because I don't plan on getting it... I voted no because honestly I already know I'm not going to pay full price for it and will either be ordering it from amazon or some other discount online store... so nope, not willing to pay $50 for it.
EDIT: It would be interesting to see, come release, how many of the "yes" votes actually pay $50 and how many go the discount route...
EDIT: It would be interesting to see, come release, how many of the "yes" votes actually pay $50 and how many go the discount route...
ShadowDenizen
Explorer
While I personally am "Undecided" (it depends on a number of factors, includong on finalized rules, whether my group intends to upgrade to Next, etc.), I think $50 is a high price. (Yes, coutning the hours of use you get out of it, it's not a bad deal, of course, but it's still a high-price point for entry into a system.)
It did get me to wondering "At what point are RPG's pricing themesleves out of the market"? Isn't $50 a high-barrier price point to get people into a new system? (Not to mention that the DM will need to buy the DMG and Monster Manual, presumably.)
Given the vase amount of entertainment options out there, is a $50/ 400 page Rulebook a good way to get new people to want to play an RPG? For most people, $50 is a calcualated buy, not a "Point-of-Purchase" buy on a whim. Moreover, for a new group composed of entirely new, young players, are they going to want to read a college-sized textbook to play a game? When they can turn on the newest Halo (or whatever the kids play now
) and be playing in moments...
It did get me to wondering "At what point are RPG's pricing themesleves out of the market"? Isn't $50 a high-barrier price point to get people into a new system? (Not to mention that the DM will need to buy the DMG and Monster Manual, presumably.)
Given the vase amount of entertainment options out there, is a $50/ 400 page Rulebook a good way to get new people to want to play an RPG? For most people, $50 is a calcualated buy, not a "Point-of-Purchase" buy on a whim. Moreover, for a new group composed of entirely new, young players, are they going to want to read a college-sized textbook to play a game? When they can turn on the newest Halo (or whatever the kids play now
) and be playing in moments...
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Well I would $50 if I had to but with Amazon I don't think that it will be necessary.
Halivar
First Post
Same thing for me and Anima. I bought the book for $60 for flavor and inspiration. The system itself is unintelligible to me, and I will likely never run it. Still, I do not regret my purchase; it makes a great coffee table book.
Depending on the format of the starter set, a new player could end up paying 70. That's 20 for the starter and then 50 for the PHB. Now veteran players will most likely buy PHB first, but I can see new people buying it to get started and the PHB to progress further.
