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Originally Posted by jc_madden Is it? Did you pay $30 for one and have your finger prints come off the front cover and then unbeknownst to you smudge most of the book as you parused it? Did you find the paper to be abnormally thin? Did you find that the book didn't stay open and "feel" like a book? Were your saddened by the lack of a descent cover rather than a simple paper one, identical in grade and quality to the rest of the book? Did you feel like this was less of a collectible, something that would last for a long time in your library, or more like a throwaway wad of tissue? I sure did.
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I agree. The paper quality of
KotS was really subpar. People don't even print magazine on paper that poor anymore. One readthrough and the cover was smudged in multiple places (rather bad since the final encounter carries over to the back 'cover' and the paper was curling.
Coupled with all the editing mistakes (and there were a lot, I caught over 20 on the first read-through), from flavor text, rules text and descriptive problems (the burial site is decidedly not southwest of town, for example) and just writing errors (the townsfolk don't go near the keep and won't even speak its name, yet one picks flowers there), even at a significant discount, it looks like a $10 product with a printing error where the price should be. Its definitely a sad lead-in to the new edition.
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