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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 3573154" data-attributes="member: 813">When I said book 1 would be levels 1-4 and book 2 would be levels 5-10, my books 1 and 2 were still 320 pages long each. Cutting back to 128 pages requires DEEP cuts.Cutting back to 32 pages is laughable. Even if you can squeeze 1000 words to a page (that's twice the density of most books but my old Tuesday's Twopagers were around 900 words per page so it is feasible I suppose), you still only have 32000 words to work with. The SRD file SpellS.rtf containing only the spells which start with the letter S is 17000 words.I'm not saying no game can be this terse. I'm just saying that D&D in 2007 cannot be that terse. My d20-lite system could fit into 32 pages (that's one of its goals). But it is compatible with D&D 3.5 in the same way GURPS is: as in, there are numbers next to game terms and dice are used to resolve conflicts.</blockquote>