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Boxed set versus Hardcover - FIGHT!
- Thread starter AllisterH
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Giltonio_Santos
Hero
Hardcovers are fine, but there's nothing in the current market that even comes close to the old boxed sets from TSR.
Cheers,
Cheers,
Ed_Laprade
Adventurer
Voted: I don't care. Partly because I prefer softcovers (their cheaper!) and partly because it depends. For settings I prefer boxed sets.
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
It's boxed sets for me, for one simple reason: I hate tearing out perforated maps from the back of a hardcover. Even if I don't accidentally rip the map in the process, I still feel like I'm damaging my book, and the map always ends up getting lost so easily, since putting it back in the book invariably means it falls out at some point.
Tinker Gnome
Explorer
Hardcovers.
I have never had a Boxed Set RPG, but I know they are pretty much the same thing as board games in terms of packaging.
I just prefer Hardcovers because they are more durable. And you can stick papers in them, Boxed Sets are not the only things that can hold papers.
I have never had a Boxed Set RPG, but I know they are pretty much the same thing as board games in terms of packaging.
I just prefer Hardcovers because they are more durable. And you can stick papers in them, Boxed Sets are not the only things that can hold papers.
Amadeus Windfall
First Post
Never had a box set, but books are cheaper and take up less space, so they win out for me.
JoeGKushner
First Post
Depends.
Is it an adventure?
Is it an adventure with a lot of maps and tiles that will need a place to store it?
Is it a campaign setitng broken up into different parts that go into different bookks?
If it's just an info dump like Martial Power, then no, hardcover is great.
If it's supposed to be a mega adventure with books broken up by purpose and several huge maps, and tokens, then no, a boxed set is the way to go.
Is it an adventure?
Is it an adventure with a lot of maps and tiles that will need a place to store it?
Is it a campaign setitng broken up into different parts that go into different bookks?
If it's just an info dump like Martial Power, then no, hardcover is great.
If it's supposed to be a mega adventure with books broken up by purpose and several huge maps, and tokens, then no, a boxed set is the way to go.
Vorput
First Post
Hardcovers are better in most every way. They're easier to store, more durable, harder to lose, etc. all.
And yet I still voted for the box set. They're just so much more fun to open and look at. Plus the way things would come in different pieces always made it more exciting. Plus they always had cool things- handouts, big maps, little minis, etc.
And yet I still voted for the box set. They're just so much more fun to open and look at. Plus the way things would come in different pieces always made it more exciting. Plus they always had cool things- handouts, big maps, little minis, etc.
Invisible Stalker
First Post
Either one is fine. I prefer both by light years over PDFs.
I came into D&D with THE box set in 1981.
I came into D&D with THE box set in 1981.
