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When I buy a game book I want good writing, aka good rules and good clarity and organization for use at the table. And nearly as important, strong binding. What does that mean though? We should be required to pay more by some coercive economic system?

That's one way to look at it. I value quality writing but there is a limit to what I'm willing to pay for it, especially when I have shelves of books that do largely the same thing with some variations.

Did you get the advanced books as well? I'm thinking of the box since the sections are split up and it makes usability by multiple players much easier. But I'm also chea...frugal so the less expensive single book version is appealing. Then again I love box sets...

For me its the opposite, when I'm trying to build a map out of tiles or on the mondomap a clean overhead map is very useful. An isometric view with all kinds of colors and whatnot hinders my efforts. But I see what you are saying.

Easy to read is good, but I've used some glossy beautiful books that were not very friendly at the table. Mostly modules that are put out today annoy me for that reason. Sure pretty maps with backgrounds and all that are nice to look at, but give me old school maps that are blue or black...

Yeah, I think the game book I've gotten the most out of in the past several years is B&W with line art and no glossy paper. I sometimes feel that most RPG books are more designed to be read that quickly used at the game table. I'm looking at Old School Essentials as new game to switch my...

Sure. There are people who will gladly pay high prices for great books, but IME those are the outliers in the quite...frugal RPG community.

Charge more for books and you lose sales. Don't charge enough for books and you can't pay most of your employees a decent wage. Not sure being an RPG writer is any kind of valid career choice for most who desire to do that kind of work. Same for most kind of artists. I have an acquaintance...

2 huge Crown Royal bags full of them.

This site has ads? You know this made me think. I run a browser loaded down with tracking, script, and ad blockers so I've never seen any ads here. But cracking wise about that is kind of bad form since a lot goes into this site. So I started a sub...which removes the ads.

Love these kinds of stories and the look at the old school style of gaming I love.

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Dont badwrongfun the kid. ;) Personally I've told my guys that player vs PC knowledge isn't something I care about. I'm not going to get mad if they use fire on the troll right away.

I'm not the one running the software but I'll have to mention it to them. Though I know one has used it. I work in IT but I only use VC for work and we use Teams. Though I remember using Skype years ago and having a smoother experience. And I'm just picky about what I'm going to install on...

I haven't been pursuing that with security and privacy issues I've been reading about over the past few months. The people actually handling the video conference and camera setup have all agreed on Skype but its poor results may push us to a new solution. Too bad Teams isn't free.

I don't think that will ever happen and I think the prime time for Gygax materials has passed. I had high hopes for the C&C Castle but alas that got pulled. :(

We never stopped. Of the 7 one players has barely left his house since this started and has been Skyping in which has been mostly working. Another guy works delivery and has been not coming over though I told him last week that it was OK if he wanted to start showing up again. Though honestly...

That is obvious. Which is why I keep my games away from trying to be fiction and letting game mechanics create a D&D fiction that is pretty much divorced from its source materials.