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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Selvarin" data-source="post: 2014362" data-attributes="member: 6102">Thanks, John. I was almost certain you'd beat me to this one by the time I got my copy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The stronghold-building  section is what made want to get this book but I wound up enjoying the rest of it. Sirius Black, I'm not completely sure. I had the same problem when the first Relics & Rituals book came out, but the latter was worse because I could actually hear crinkling and cracking when flipping the pages.The BSTD was printed in China, so I'd be tempted to point to that, but so were the recent D20 Dragonlance hardcovers (if I'm not mistaken) and they have tighter, better binding.Something else came up. I looked over some WotC books on my shelf, I figured they were printed in China or Canada but found that they were all listed as printed/made in the USA. If so then I don't think it's a coincidence that their bindings tend to be tight, nor that they tend to be a little more expensive. It's probably easier for WotC to keep an eye on book quality just by being within a few hours' flight from the printers if things really go bad (sometimes a phone call isn't enough), etc. etc...The most likely answer is that MGP chose overseas print/ publishing companies with lower production values (in order to increase the profit margin) and this affected the durability/quality of the book. Not that I'm against profits, mind you, just that I can tell the difference between a MGP hardcover and that of other hardcovers without looking at the cover. You can get away with this on softcovers (where the binding is usually just glue) but it makes a difference in hardcovers.Again, it's a good book to have. I don't feel like it's going to fall apart in the next few months or anything like that, just that it isn't as solid as the Draconomicon so I wouldn't abuse it overmuch. For example, some folks will put a book on the shelf and let it slide down a bit with other books leaning hard against it. This stresses a book's cover and binding needlessly. So's holding it such a way that the the front and back covers flop around a bit. better bindings aren't as affected by such things in the long run, but even they'll start to fail if it happens often enough. To me, every book is an investment so I laminate each one, etc., but then again that may be as much the sign of a compulsive disorder as practial prudence. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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