I'm with you on that.The Adventurer's Almanac wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 3:09 pmI fucking hate modern society so goddamn much for this bullshit.
Not like I ever gave Wizards my money anyway, so I guess it's irrelevant.
The more money an individual or corporation has, the more they want to extract from us commoners.
While I have purchased all three AD&D core books back in the 90s, then the 3e core books two decades ago, then (from a friend, half price but a bit worn) the DMG and PHB for 3.5e (MM came cheap from Amazon)... after the DND Beyond playtests I noticed so many people had binding failure with their 5e PHBs, so I waited a few years for the reprint and spent ANOTHER buttload of cash, this time 50 USD, and I think I'm done.
I don't care how spectacular any later D&D edition is or might be, Hasbro will just keep increasing price for less product.
I have my means of acquiring PDFs, and it's... a sizable collection over 15 years... but these are games I can't even find anyone willing to play, or out of print obscure things that were scanned and sites are charging 30+ USD for a digital copy for... unbalanced, poorly written junk.
On the flip side, last spring I was given 500 USD in cash for 15 Magic cards I acquired 10-15 years ago for maybe 10 cents to 10 dollars apiece, held on to them, used them, and demand drove the prices up to 50-60 apiece.