The Most Expensive Tabletop RPGs

The pricing of tabletop role-playing games can be a contentious subject. There is always tension between what creators need to charge and what customers are willing to pay.

I’ve put together a list of the most expensive RPGs ever released. Of course, there have been Kickstarter pledge levels higher than these. However, these are the most expensive retail prices for RPGs.

The World’s Largest Dungeon – Originally $99.95

The mammoth tome that is The World’s Largest Dungeon was released in 2004. The book reportedly contained more than 1,000 pages and more than 16,000 encounters.

It was the first RPG or RPG supplement that neared the one-hundred-dollar mark. In fact, it even holds a Guinness World Record for the most expensive role-playing game ever.

The World’s Largest Dungeon is now available in ebook and at a significantly reduced price from its initial release.

Please keep in mind this product was designed for the Third Edition of Dungeons and Dragons.

Invisible Sun – $99.00

When Invisible Sun was released it created quite a stir in the RPG community and it even reached the pages of Forbes. It clocked in at 99 dollars just a few cents under the record price of The World’s Largest Dungeon.

This is no simple tabletop role-playing by any means. Check out a partial list of what the hundred dollars gets you when you buy this RPG.

• Four game books totalling over 600 pages:
  • The Key: A 208-page book on character creation and options.
  • The Way: 124 pages on the many ways magic works.
  • The Gate: 152 pages on game rules and GM information.
  • The Path: 148 pages detailing Satyrine, the realms under the eight suns, and other elements of the game setting.
• Well over 1000 cards, laid out in a printer-friendly format. These cards do not duplicate each other, or content from the books.
  • 242 Ephemera cards.
  • Plus 208 Incantation cards.
  • 201 Object of Power cards.
  • 308 Spell cards.
  • 18 Weaver Aggregate cards.
  • 50 Vance spell cards.

This list was pulled from the product listing on DriveThruRPG.

Other Expensive RPGs on DriveThruRPG

The RPGs listed above are regarded as the most expensive. There are others listed in the eighty to the ninety-dollar range. However, most are discounted heavily and are bundles. Here’s a quick list.

• 6 Fate Core Settings [BUNDLE]
• Avant Novis Fall maps [BUNDLE]
• Sci-fi [BUNDLE]
• Cartoon Action Hour “Stuck at Home” Family Pack [BUNDLE]
• MARS – Savage Worlds Sword-and-Planet Print Bundle [BUNDLE]
• Atlas Harnica Map [BUNDLE]
• Christmas Cthulhu [BUNDLE]
• Nova Praxis: Savage Worlds Edition Hardcover + A-PDF [BUNDLE]
• The Complete Encyclopaedia Arcane [BUNDLE]
• Exodus Overseer’s Bundle [BUNDLE]
• World of Farland Campaign Settings Hardcover Set [BUNDLE]
• Mutant Chronicles 8000 [BUNDLE]
• OSR Dungeon Dressing Complete [BUNDLE]
• Pathfinder 1 Dungeon Dressing Complete [BUNDLE]

DriveThru RPG Bundles

Of course, bundles of products can be expensive (and rightly so). DriveThruRPG allows publishers to bundle a great many products together. Many of these are well more than two hundred or three hundred dollars.

The most expensive of these are stock art bundles or lifetime subscriptions.

There are some map bundles like 2020-2021 Cybermaps Exclusives 4K [BUNDLE] and 2021 Exclusive maps in 4K [BUNDLE]. Plus dungeon maps like 5E Fantasy Grounds [BUNDLE] and Add On Dungeons All 2021 [BUNDLE].

High-Priced Role-playing Games

While the RPG products listed here in this blog post are highly-priced, it is clear they offer lots of material for that price. Also, most of the bundles are greatly discounted compared to buying the products individually.