when did physical d&d books start selling for $50 instead of $30? am i crazy, were they always this expensive? pathfinder's are still $30 unless you want fancier books.

no wonder so many people pirate this shit. something has to break at some point man. this is another one of those scenarios where different payment models would drastically help stop piracy. like, idk... a la carte purchasing...???? dumbasses.

i'm sorry but $50 is just not worth it for a piece of a game, especially when 90% of it is fluff i'm not going to ever look at or use. totally insane. maybe it's worth it for people that are playing WAY more d&d, but i feel like the average player is only doing it once a week at most, maybe even leaning towards semimonthly. d&d and other ttrpg's in general are a really expensive hobby, sometimes prohibitively expensive, and that was being remedied with digital-era stuff but not nearly as much anymore i guess.

makes me want to keep working on my ttrpg system tbh. don't really have time for that though unfortunately.