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  Re: Hard to believe that publishers still entertain limited editions at
  By: August Abolins to John Dovey on Mon Nov 14 2022 05:53 pm

 > [2] In these days of people looking for lower prices of books, and ebooks,
HOW does

Actually, in the RPG world (as in actual tabletop RPG games) there has been a
tendency
for increasing quality at the expense of quantity and price for quite a while.

I have noticed many RPG manuals come with thicker paper, better inking, more
illustrations... you name it. Many of these manuals don't feel like field
manuals
(like early D&D books) but rather stuff made to be read at home. IN fact I
tipically
keep the manuals at home and take cheap photocopies to the table. This
behavious is
encouraged by the publishers.

You can see a similar effect in boardgames. Gamers prefer a game to have big
plastic
detailed figurines rather than cardboard tokens even if that means they pay
premium
for it.

What I mean is that there is a niche for hobbyists who are willing to spend
loads of
money without a need for it.

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