What's the Most You'd Pay for a Single RPG Book?

Spinachcat · May 18, 2017, 09:34:26 PM

I rather not pay $50 for a hardcover, and even then, I would have thoroughly researched the game. For whatever reason, I am more comfortable tossing $100 at a boardgame than $50 at a RPG. Maybe its years of homebrewing RPGs and downloading great cheap (or free) RPGs that leaves me less impressed / interested / needing to pay top dollar for other people's work.

RPGPundit · May 20, 2017, 04:17:03 AM

I don't really have a theoretical maximum, but I also couldn't really see myself spending more than $50 on an RPG book. And mind you, I have a large collection of expensive rare books, just on more serious subject (if you consider Eastern religions, philosophy, and the occult to be 'serious').

Hermes Serpent · May 20, 2017, 05:21:38 AM

£60 is about the max I'd pay if it was a had-to-have RPG book and a pdf wouldn't cut it. I did spend £100 on a 2 volume set of books about spy movies that lists and reviews every spy movie from 1945 up to 1989 by the author of the Kiss, Kiss, Kill, Kill website. I also spent US$200 on a bound copy of the Royal Artillery Journal from 1912 that had some very interesting articles about pre-WW1 artillery tactics, but that's more an antiquarian level book.

Charon's Little Helper · May 20, 2017, 11:27:48 AM

Now this leads to the (purely speculative) question - how much does raising the price of an RPG hurt sales? How much more likely are you to buy a $40 book than the same book at $50? What about at $45? etc.

Dumarest · May 20, 2017, 12:36:17 PM

Quote from: Charon's Little Helper;963492Now this leads to the (purely speculative) question - how much does raising the price of an RPG hurt sales? How much more likely are you to buy a $40 book than the same book at $50? What about at $45? etc.

It's doubtful I'd invest that much in a game nowadays, but for me what really discourages interest and investment is not the prices so much as the inability to browse through a game to see what I think of it. The couple of game stores near me are 95% D&D, Pathfinder, Magic cards, and Games Workshop wargames, so I seldom get to actually look at anything and hold it in my hands and assess it the way I would with a novel or history book at the bookstore or library. The free preview features online that I have seen are invariably lacking so I just bypass almost all new products in the RPG industry as I lack the money to buy something just so I can see if I might like it.

crkrueger · June 02, 2017, 01:39:57 AM

Quote from: Christopher Brady;962286Most 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.

Nonsense, that was a thoroughly logical sound investment...with chains.

What's the Most You'd Pay for a Single RPG Book?

Spinachcat

RPGPundit

Hermes Serpent

Charon's Little Helper

Dumarest

crkrueger