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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 2854257" data-attributes="member: 907">Boxed sets do have the advantage that it's easy to include accessories - most notably maps, but also illustration cards and the like. For example, the 2nd ed FR boxed set had a total of four poster maps (as opposed to one in the 3e FR book), eight MC sheets (total of 15 monsters), and six sheets with various coats of arms, holy symbols, and way runes. The Land of Fate boxed set (Al-Qadim) had eight MC sheets, 12 sheets with various illustrations and city maps, and three poster maps.They also provide the ability to compartmentalize information. In the Land of Fate book for example, one book was "public" information that anyone could know, and the other was DMs only. In an adventure, you could include a book of illustrations to show the PCs, and a book with all the stats for the creatures and NPCs included (thereby reducing the need to flip back and forth in the main adventure book). If the adventure was really big, you could also split it into several different parts, making each book a little more managable.Now, I'm not sure if these advantages are enough to justify the higher costs of a boxed set, but it does have clear advantages.</blockquote>