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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Windjammer" data-source="post: 5052860" data-attributes="member: 60075">A 32 page softcover for 4E by WotC costs $10 (point of comparison: Dragonborn and Tiefling race codeces). Taking those - purely hypothetical - 32 pages away from the Dark Sun CG, we're left with a 190 pp. page count. Sticking to the previous page count of 4E campaign guides - of ca. 290 pages - that means they could have integrated the bestiary into a solid 100 page section in the book itself.* On the whole, we'd be looking at a Campaign Guide at $40 and a Player's book at $10 - and these are the overall price tags for the DM and the player respectively. Under their new offering, a DM is asked to pay $60 and a player is asked to pay $40. That's double the combined cost, and they aren't offering more in terms of page count, just a less convenient distribution of the content. And that's not even comparing the amount of material you get these days in a $40 book compared to, say, a previous offering like the 3.0 Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. I'm appreciative of 4E using large font and huge areas of white space in their books, but combined with the increasingly poorer content/cost ratio this is getting inexcusable rather quick.*How is this too little for Dark Sun? I'm serious here, I'd like to know. I'm rather afraid that they're gonna bloat the bestiary with useless fringy stuff like the Athasian cacti in Dragon #364 to meet their page count. In that vein:Emphasis mine. So we need a huge bestiary and a small world section for ... what purpose exactly? Honestly, I'm more and more hoping that they just pitched the bestiary incorrectly and that it's more of a general background resource with "threats" covering not just critters but a lot more info on the dragon kings etc.</blockquote>

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