No TFT Bloat Please

[tbeard1999]

Moved from another thread.

Originally Posted by Carnifex

On their FaceBook page tonight, SJ Games announced the pricing for TFT.

$14.95 is the price for "a printed product and Melee and Wizard will be separate products."

If that is the price for ITL, AW and AM combined into one book, it's a good deal.

A random comparison with GURPS Fantasy shows a $30 price point for a 240 page softcover book. ITL, AW and AM total 128 pages, so the proposed price is roughly comparable on a per page basis.

And, it's actually $1 less than these books cost in 1981. AM and AW were $5 each and ITL was $6. But in 2018 dollars, that's $45 total (!).

For comparison, the 240 page AD&D DM's guide was $15 ($43 today) and the 128 page Player's Handbook and Monster Manual were $12 ($34 today) each. $111 in today's dollars total for AD&D.

In 1981, the Runequest softcover rules cost $12 ($34 today) and the boxed set with rules, adventure and dice cost $20 ($57 today).

The current 3 D&D books cost $30 each ($34 for the MM) on Amazon. The two core GURPS hardbacks cost $62 on Amazon. The hardback GURPS Fantasy was $37 when available.

This illustrates that the cost of RPGs has decreased in real dollars since the late 70s/early 80s. For less that the cost of the original 3 AD&D books, you can get RPG books with twice as many pages - in full color.