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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 5850775" data-attributes="member: 37277">Like a lot of the opinions I'm noticing here, I really would like to see the basic core book focusing primarily on consumption. And I mean that in terms of both function and form. It needs to be durable, easy to navigate, and concise. It is the book of rules for playing the game, and those rules need to be legible, comprehensive, understandable, and easy to find.However--pick up a dictionary or a thesaurus. Those are books that are slavishly consumable with no engagement. That's not what I want in a core book. Engagement can not be overlooked. I don't want to read a simple rule book. I'm not going to learn how to actually play chess just by reading the rule book that comes with the board. That is both boring and not presented in such a way that I'll even try to read it. So, art, examples of play, and some fiction bits sprinkled around can fill in all the engagement.I am least interested in cherish. Not to say that I will not cherish such a book, but it's not a focus. I'm most likely not going to have the room or ability to display these books in a fashion that approaches art. It would be kind of cool to have a piece of art that crosses the covers of the three* core books, with distinctive sections of the whole painting that are easily cropped to covers, but that's about the only way I'd actually be able to place such books in any configuration other than spine out on a shelf. That said, I mentioned durability in my paragraph about consumption, and that's also applicable here. A durable book will last longer, which gives it a greater chance to stick around long enough to become cherished.*just a base assumption of PHB, DMG, MM</blockquote>

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