Arms and Armour - is it any good?

[drnuncheon]

From time to time, I hear that people think Bastion Press books should be in the $15 range based on 96 pages. This somewhat surprises me, considering that Wizards' 96-page books are $19.95 and they're in black and white.

Well, like I said, I'd have definitely preferred $19.95, B&W for Arms and Armor. (For Minions, $25 and full color was just fine.)

I suspect that the reason a lot of people think $15 is that the difference between a 96-page book and a 64 page book (like, say, Green Ronin's Arcana, which was $15) is very hard to tell, especially when you're just holding one of them. Even on the shelf they look "about" the same size. (It doesn't help that the red stripe on the cover of Minions is actually smaller than the spine, either.)

I think that mentally, gamers differentiate in size at somewhere around 128 pages - I know I can judge that size because of years of buying GURPS books. I find myself sorting stuff into mental categories like "Hardback" (core rules, OA, FR), "Thin Hardback" (Atlas' Touched by the Gods or the FFG Legends and Lairs), "Thick Softback" (Magic of Faerun, AEG's Evil, Atlas' En Route), and "Thin Softback" (WOTC classbooks, Monsters of Faerun, Mongoose's Encyclopedia Arcane). Oh, and "Module" for all the staplebound stuff.

Anyway, hope my totally unscientific assertions helped even a little bit.

J

 

[der_kluge]

Oh yes, that would be very very cool. Why can't someone make something like that? I want new armor types, rules for peicemeal armor, that kind of stuff.

Aaron, got you covered. Working on it. Give me about 6 months.

P.S. You DID NOT hear that from me.

- sshhhh

 

[trancejeremy]

Well, prices vary by publisher.

The 128 pages sourcebooks from AEG - at least Evil, anyway, are $20. Mystic Warriors from Mystic Eye is 128 page and is $15.

Green Ronin's Legions of Hell is 64 pages and $15. Their Hell in Freeport is 86 pages & $19. Mongoose's Demonology book is 64 pages and $14. Most Kalamar adventures seem to be 64 pages and are $13.

So, factoring in color, $25 is reasonable, though too rich for my blood.

I actually agree - when I look at a book I tend to think either little book or big book. With 128 pages being the start of 'big book'. Usually I'll spend $20+ on a big book, if it's worth it, but I have to think and think and think before spending that much on a little book.