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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Giltonio_Santos" data-source="post: 6272556" data-attributes="member: 36874">Then we should all agree that this is not about the money and stop creating threads with "$50" in the title. Years ago, I spent about $100 in a Pathfinder Core Rulebook together with a Bestiary and a Gamemastery Guide. You know what? I didn't care enough about the money to try to sell them, I simply gave away the books to someone who was still interested in playing the game. If you ask me, though, if $50 is a lot of money to spend in a Pathfinder Core Rulebook I'll tell it that even $10 is too much to spend in one of those nowadays.Much like every other product sold around the world, the price of an RPG book is based in how much the people who want it are willing to pay. Given the chance, Paizo would certainly charge more for those 575 full color pages, but there are some important facts:- Their product is not new. Pathfinder is D&D 3.75, not an independent game with its own spirit and ruleset, but the ultimate proof of the solidness and staying power of the 3E rules. Cool, but no Numenéra, no D&D Next, no FATE Core. I mean: not mandatory for the real deal (see below).- The real deal is the adventure path. Paizo people have said in these boards that Adventure Paths are their real business, not rulebooks. If you can afford to reduce your margins in the core game to sell more adventures, from their point of view, that's good business.Now, let's imagine Paizo charging more for the Pathfinder core, charging what one would expect to pay for a full color hardcover of 575 pages in 2014. They would be risking their main offering, the adventure paths, and also taking the risk that people would simply keep playing their adventures while using other d20 rules, which is not exactly a bad deal for Paizo, but don't advance their business either. WotC has none of this concerns with 5E.This makes the Pathfinder comparison an unfair one, in my opinion.Cheers!</blockquote>

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