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<blockquote data-quote="Tantavalist" data-source="post: 8235549" data-attributes="member: 7030056">I used to write corrections and house rules in core books, but that's not happening as often for me now. I don't think that it's any change in me as much as a change in the RPG industry. When I first started gaming- well, I still recall that first edition WFRP book I got for Christmas when I was 12. As much as I loved it, the book was still printed on cheap paper and had lots of whitespace around the margins of every page. The charts, tables and writing was all spaced out so that corrections or additions were very easy to do.I look at the 4e WFRP book now and... Could I do the same with it? It's a much more expensive and beautiful item than the 1e book, so there's a greater reluctance to mark it. The paper is also glossy and harder to write on. Finally, the pages are in full colour and the fonts/spacing show how they've struggled to pack the full word count into their page allotment.Writing in RPG books is, I suspect, a Grognard thing that's been getting less common as the average quality of RPG books went up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tantavalist, post: 8235549, member: 7030056"] I used to write corrections and house rules in core books, but that's not happening as often for me now. I don't think that it's any change in me as much as a change in the RPG industry. When I first started gaming- well, I still recall that first edition WFRP book I got for Christmas when I was 12. As much as I loved it, the book was still printed on cheap paper and had lots of whitespace around the margins of every page. The charts, tables and writing was all spaced out so that corrections or additions were very easy to do. I look at the 4e WFRP book now and... [I]Could[/I] I do the same with it? It's a much more expensive and beautiful item than the 1e book, so there's a greater reluctance to mark it. The paper is also glossy and harder to write on. Finally, the pages are in full colour and the fonts/spacing show how they've struggled to pack the full word count into their page allotment. Writing in RPG books is, I suspect, a Grognard thing that's been getting less common as the average quality of RPG books went up. [/QUOTE]

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