Quote from: RPGPundit;961796Just out of curiosity.  What's the most you have paid? What's the most you could imagine yourself paying for one? What would influence your decision?

I thought this was asked before recently? Maybe not.

$49 seems to be my limit on core rulebooks. If I can pre-order at $39, that helps. I'm talking about actual book buying. Not eBook stuff. For $49, I expect color/gloss pages. A higher price would mean more pages. Around 228 pages seems to be a good amount to include plenty of rules in. I don't care for any index or table of contents because I don't use them. Just put labels near corners of pages so I see what section/chapter of a book I'm in, if I need to know.

I like the Serenity RPG, and how its page layout is. I don't remember what I paid for it. Retail price in a book store probably.

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;962233I thought this was asked before recently? Maybe not.

$49 seems to be my limit on core rulebooks. If I can pre-order at $39, that helps. I'm talking about actual book buying. Not eBook stuff. For $49, I expect color/gloss pages. A higher price would mean more pages. Around 228 pages seems to be a good amount to include plenty of rules in. I don't care for any index or table of contents because I don't use them. Just put labels near corners of pages so I see what section/chapter of a book I'm in, if I need to know.

I like the Serenity RPG, and how its page layout is. I don't remember what I paid for it. Retail price in a book store probably.

If we're going to bring up *content* I have some opinions... I definitely want both a table of contents and an index. I use both. I want color covers and perhaps chapter headings. But interior art can be B&W. Especially if it keeps down costs. Good B&W art can be more attractive to me than overly cluttered color work. I even prefer it for equipment illustrations. Like I said earlier I want a $10 per 100 pages price point.

Quote from: Tetsubo;962250If we're going to bring up *content* I have some opinions... I definitely want both a table of contents and an index. I use both.

I'll also add that I like a glossary in addition to the index.

Quote from: Tetsubo;962250Like I said earlier I want a $10 per 100 pages price point.

That is super cheap.  I can't think of many RPG books that hit that other than Pathfinder's core book - but they could only go that cheap because they've sold a ton of them and because they're willing to not make much on the core book to suck people in.  (plus it rolled out 8 years ago - and inflation)  Or are you including when you get it at a discount?

Quote from: Charon's Little Helper;962257I'll also add that I like a glossary in addition to the index.



That is super cheap.  I can't think of many RPG books that hit that other than Pathfinder's core book - but they could only go that cheap because they've sold a ton of them and because they're willing to not make much on the core book to suck people in.  (plus it rolled out 8 years ago - and inflation)  Or are you including when you get it at a discount?

I do buy books at discounts when I can. But I also have purchased new books at close to that price point. One way of achieving that is to not use full color cover-to-cover. I will go on the high end, say $40 for a 300 page book if it really attracts me. But I have seen some *insane* price points. A saw one recently that was $50 for a 114 page book.

Quote from: Tetsubo;962259A I saw one recently that was $50 for a 114 page book.

Curious - was it POD?  Because that can really jack up the price.  POD high-end color can be stupidly expensive.

Even $40 for 300 pages MSRP is still really cheap if it has decent color art.  Remember - if sold at a FLGS, the publisher is selling that $40 book for $16.  (And TTRPGs rarely sell enough to fully take advantage of economies of scale.)

Quote from: Charon's Little Helper;962262Curious - was it POD?  Because that can really jack up the price.  POD high-end color can be stupidly expensive.

Even $40 for 300 pages MSRP is still really cheap if it has decent color art.  Remember - if sold at a FLGS, the publisher is selling that $40 book for $16.  (And TTRPGs rarely sell enough to fully take advantage of economies of scale.)

It was listed on Amazon. I don't know if it was POD or not. I saw the price, laughed and moved on.

The last full-priced RPG book I bought in a brick-n-mortar store was $20 and runs 270 pages. It is softcover and has B&W interior art. I recently picked up a used copy of the PF Bestairy 5 for $32. Bargain hunting is a hobby.

If you think the page to price ratio can get crazy with rpg's, be sure to stay away from wargames:)

Quote from: RunningLaser;962278If you think the page to price ratio can get crazy with rpg's, be sure to stay away from wargames:)

Or academia... I own a 'coffee table' style reference book of Islamic arms and armour in the Middle Ages. I bought it for $3 at  a thrift shop. It retails for $500.

Most I've paid?  250CDN.  That was for the collector's edition of FFG's Deathwatch RPG.  But it really depends on how much I REALLY want the book.  I have, admittedly, poor impulse control.

Well irl I have as of yet never payed more then 40$ usd for a game book but I can realistically see my top end being 150$ usd (I have spent more on other books btw) or so but at that point it had beater be the game equivalent of my spice and wolf collectors edition.
There are of coarse exceptions.
the following pictuers are for the sake of example



more pics that are fing huge

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Quote from: kosmos1214;962688A bunch of stuff...

Spice and Wolf is awesome. If you wanted to run a game in the late medieval, early renaissance or equivalent thereof based on trade and commerce, that series of... It's originally a light novel, I think? That definitely has some interesting insights into economics.

EDIT: Looking under the spoiler. Okay, where did you get that?

Quote from: Krimson;962711Spice and Wolf is awesome. If you wanted to run a game in the late medieval, early renaissance or equivalent thereof based on trade and commerce, that series of... It's originally a light novel, I think? That definitely has some interesting insights into economics.

EDIT: Looking under the spoiler. Okay, where did you get that?

They printed its a while back yen press i mean there are 2 printings the original numbered edition and the 2nd unnumbered printing I have the latter I got it for cristmas this last year (2016) as I love the series and to top it off it was slightly cheaper then buying a full set of the light novels even after having to go threw a scalper on eBay.
And yes I try to take influence from it when it come to economics in my worlds it helps put it in every day terms so its easier to wrap mind around and get me in the right mind space.

PS: those are stock pictures of of the web not pictures of my personal copy.
PPS: my copy cost me 250 ish usd from what I remember and last I looked the number printing was going near 400 usd.
PPPS: the book is called spice and wolf anniversary collector's edition.

@kosmos thanks for the info.

I was at Sentry Box today and I picked up the Adventures in Middle Earth Loremaster's Guide which was $60 Cdn so I guess that's within my limit though I was planning to buy it when it came out.

50-60$ sometimes more depending on the rpg. Another issue is the poor value of the Canadian dollar. At one of the LGS in my area The Edge of the Empire core is going for 78$ before tax.

Quote from: sureshot;96317750-60$ sometimes more depending on the rpg. Another issue is the poor value of the Canadian dollar. At one of the LGS in my area The Edge of the Empire core is going for 78$ before tax.

A good amount of OSR stuff is available on Lulu, which has a facility in Canada I believe.