I think it’s changed a lot over the years. I have bought (and mostly given away) shelf-busting collections of my favorite systems, but the combination of hitting parenthood in my 30s (making time my most precious commodity), along with really deep, splatless systems like BW, made all that seem unnecessary. When am I gonna play it? When am I even gonna read it?

An entry level price of $200 strikes me as bananas, mostly because RPGs suffer from the positive externality of being more useful the more people buy them. Generating the minimum buzz to dislodge a group’s favorite game seems to be no mean feat, so chopping your audience down to those who will sling that kind of cash sight unseen seems risky.

Though maybe a gorgeous tackle box full of colorful doodads is part of their strategy?