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Anonymous03/14/26, 18:00No.97707631Why is everything still 50$
>Suck and Fucks guide to Butt: 50$
>Basic Guide to Rolling Dice: 50$
>Swords and Axes, a Manual: 50$
Etc etc cut your prices you fucking shits it’s been a decade it shouldn’t be sitting full price on the shelves
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Anon03/14/26, 18:01No.97707633
Someone somewhere is still paying the $50
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Anon03/14/26, 18:10No.97707658
>not adjusting your prices up for inflation
ngmi
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Anon03/14/26, 18:27No.97707710
>buy
Learn to pirate, print and bind faggot, there's no point in buying shit since 10 years ago at least, especially from the usual producers, and i say this as a guy that used to love original physical copies. YT is filled with tutorials for book binding, even hardcover ones.
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Anon03/14/26, 18:40No.97707762
That's never going to happen, they even keep the crappy POD copies of old material with low quality scans expensive
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Anon03/14/26, 18:42No.97707767
Because like comicbooks, the hobby has been taken over by normalfags and collectors. Cheap paper, b/w interiors, and softcovers (or cheap hardcovers) are considered gauche and low-class now.
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Anon03/14/26, 20:09No.97708191
I've bought nearly the entire 5e catalog as books on Amazon, pre-ordering books as soon as they're announced, and although the starting price for most of the books, very rarely did I end up paying more than $40. Pre-ordering something on amazon charges you the cheapest price the item was since you pre-ordered it, and while the book didn't release between it going on amazon and it actually being purchasable, it's price did fluctuate.
So my suggestion is to use some sort of price track alert so that you can buy a book when it's on a significant sale instead of paying the $50 price tag.
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Anon03/14/26, 20:14No.97708205
Are you underage? How the hell would an adult think $50 is a lot of money?
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Anon03/14/26, 21:25No.97708459
Where the fuck else are they gonna get money from, anon? TTRPGs are already not a very lucrative business
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Anon03/14/26, 21:26No.97708470
>DM's really pay $50 for a blank book with zero rules or mechanics that only says "As the DM you should be creative and roll dice!"
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Anon03/14/26, 21:34No.97708509
This shit is avaliable in the Internet Fucking Archive why are you paying $50 for it
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Anon03/14/26, 21:37No.97708525
Selling books is their main source of money
Unlike a traditional book which might sell for 20 or 30 (assuming a similar size, word count), ttrpg books have a few key things that price them up
>All colored, thus not only ink but pricier thicker paper
>It's a franchise with several developers, playtesters, community managers etc, compared to a book written by one guy and edited by someone at a publishing house, a lot more people have to get their cut
>It's owned by a toy company which expects x quarterly revenue and all that shitIn general tabletop game books are kind of cursed to cost double a normal book for many reasons, I guess now that a new edition is out you could ask why they don't discount the old one, and the answer may vary from collectors, game stores who have already invested into this stuff and would lose money, etc etcAt the end of the day, you kinda buy the book to support the game and for ease of use if you know how to get a pdf>But is it worth it
Maybe the base rules of any given game are worth it, but the supplements, setting books etc etc? Fuck no, that shit never gets opened at the table, you only buy those because you like to collect them and read them physical and you want to support a game, this retroactively also makes the core rulebooks more pricey because it means companies can realy ONLY on the rulebook to make them consistent money
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Anon03/15/26, 03:33No.97709833
but you want it though, pay for it