was seeing a dialog on here about the commercialization of ttrpgs and various opinions on that Since raising the price I've had odd feeling. Like it was a jerk move? I'm no economist, but I know there's the Free scene, and the charge $ scene, and crossover. hope i didn't fail here. is it wrong? - ThreadSky

perplexingruins.bsky.social • 36 days ago

was seeing a dialog on here about the commercialization of ttrpgs and various opinions on that

Since raising the price I've had odd feeling. Like it was a jerk move?
I'm no economist, but I know there's the Free scene, and the charge $ scene, and crossover.
hope i didn't fail here.
is it wrong?

Reposted from Perplexing Ruins

I raised the price for the Fallen pdf from $10 to $15

I still think that's a reasonable price, but very much a "sign of the times" move... sorry

perplexingruins.itch.io/fallen

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testeria.bsky.social•36 days ago

No. This is the right price for the content. Hasbro would price it at 40$.

laesquinadelrol.com•36 days ago

For all that Fallen offers, it is reasonably priced.

jmakula87.bsky.social•36 days ago

Totally reasonable (hopefully the sales back that)!

But I struggle with similar type stuff. I wrote about sports for a few decent sites for a stretch, and I hated self promotion - I always felt selfish, even though I shouldn't have.

And people will spend money on a good product!

jmakula87.bsky.social•36 days ago

I'm not sure where that line is for people, but I'm no less likely to buy something for $15 than I am for $10. For me, I think somewhere around $20 is where I am much more likely to not buy something on a whim.

cor-caroli.bsky.social•36 days ago

«commericialization of ttrpgs»? more like «taking money for your work which is also luxury».

people aren't obliged for your work for free.

mrzeke.bsky.social•36 days ago

That seems like a very reasonable price to me. You could probably go up a couple more bucks, honestly.

I like not spending money, but I do think that most people in the TTRPG space charge less than they could

danielharila.bsky.social•36 days ago

There's no right and wrong answer to this. Do you have a job next to this? What's the cost of your craft? How do you value your time and is there a lot of it?
Free zines are cool but should never be expected IMHO

johnmarron.bsky.social•36 days ago

You shouldn't feel bad about charging for your creative work. You can also set a price that seems reasonable to you, and let the buyers decide if the work seems worth that price to them. I think every RPG creator can decide for themselves whether to charge or not.

perplexingruins.bsky.social•36 days ago

should I be more anti-commercial with my games & illustrations?

Which means doing other work. Lot's of questions.

seedlinggames.bsky.social•36 days ago

I feel like everyone has an opinion on pricing and you just need to do what makes sense for you

You can pretty easily play only free games and play some pretty good ones if paying is an issue so I wouldn't worry about it. I think a lot of the people doing non commercial stuff have a day job

emo-sludge.com•36 days ago

No I think it’s totally reasonable. I’ve raised the price on comics and stuff I’ve made in line with inflation or to justify a too low price when I first published. If resellers can sell my old work for 10x the price bc it’s “rare” I should be able to do a 25% price increase every decade or so lol.

notbuchanan.bsky.social•36 days ago

It's your product, you made it and you have the right to price it as you see fit. If you were selling an essential to life, perhaps we'd have a different discussion, but a ttrpg is a luxury. Am I less likely to buy it now? Probably. But if you still sell 3 out of 4, you're still ahead.

goblinjunkyard.itch.io•36 days ago

you gotta do what you gotta do, and you have a lot of really good pay what you want/free, charge what you think its worth and need to put food on the table!

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