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<blockquote data-quote="Panda-s1" data-source="post: 7905848" data-attributes="member: 59554"><p>it has little to do with the writing. for starters the page layouts almost always had borders*. with the smaller text size I always felt a little claustrophobic whenever I read a 3.5 book. it also didn't help that they had those weird text lines as a background. everything about the design felt overdone, like I get that they're trying to make the books like old wizardy tomes, but the covers already convey that idea fairly well, and I'm surprised they didn't go all in and make the pages look like parchment like they did with 5e.</p><p></p><p>in contrast, 4e had blank pages and well defined and colored blocks. the text was larger as well, which made it a lot easier to read. a lot of people derided this as meaning less content, but that's a little too cynical imo.</p><p></p><p>*sidenote: I realize now that this actually made it a bit harder to flip through the books as well. with 5e books I might catch the edge of a full page illustration and have a good idea of where I am in the book, and 4e and 2nd ed. had this going on as well. I can't say the same for 3.5 books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Panda-s1, post: 7905848, member: 59554"] it has little to do with the writing. for starters the page layouts almost always had borders*. with the smaller text size I always felt a little claustrophobic whenever I read a 3.5 book. it also didn't help that they had those weird text lines as a background. everything about the design felt overdone, like I get that they're trying to make the books like old wizardy tomes, but the covers already convey that idea fairly well, and I'm surprised they didn't go all in and make the pages look like parchment like they did with 5e. in contrast, 4e had blank pages and well defined and colored blocks. the text was larger as well, which made it a lot easier to read. a lot of people derided this as meaning less content, but that's a little too cynical imo. *sidenote: I realize now that this actually made it a bit harder to flip through the books as well. with 5e books I might catch the edge of a full page illustration and have a good idea of where I am in the book, and 4e and 2nd ed. had this going on as well. I can't say the same for 3.5 books. [/QUOTE]
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