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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bondetamp" data-source="post: 176347" data-attributes="member: 193">USD100?Well, it would have to be pretty.Good quality writings too, of course, but I demand good quality writing in a USD10 book.With a product, say a campaign setting, that was not only awe inspiringly pretty, but also came with lots of extra goodies that I knew would be helpful in a game, I can see myself picking it up and looking at it longingly every single time I visited the gaming store until one day I had enough money to actually buy it.The quality of the binding should be flawless. There are several books in my book case that, while I like the books and enjoyed reading them, really won me over by having a binding that told me it would outlive my grand children. A leather backing would be awesome. The feel and not least smell of leather is incredibly evocative. When I lovingly caress a leather bound book I can't help but think that it is a literary master-piece handed down over generations. <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=":)" />Which is why I was so disappointed when White Wolf made their Limited Edition stuff in fake leather. Had it been real leather I would have picked it up in a heart beat, but fake leather? Pfft, I say. Pfft!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> The interior should be just as good. It should be Planescape or Birthright pretty, with mood oozing from every page. One should be able to open the book at some random page number and promptly forget about the price. The art, layout, fonts and everything down to the fabric of the paper should make you feel so strongly about wanting to run this campaign that every purchase made the next several weeks will be scrutinized on a basis of how much it will hold you back from finally getting the 100 bucks needed to make the purchase. It should be so good, that even if you can get a more plain book with the same writings at half the price, you'd still happily part with the extra $50. Hell, even if you never plan to actually play the game, even if you hate D&D fiercely, you should need to own this book just to look at it.People buy Mickey Mouse figures for several hundred dollars, why should one balk at spending the same on a product like this?There should be a feeling that nothing was saved to make this the ultimate gaming product.Cool extras would be very helpful in getting me to buy the book. Most important to me would be a CD with helpful extras. With this I'm talking about a database with all kinds of stuff like monsters, characters, cities etc. indexed in a way that made it possible to modify and add entries. It would be very nice if it also was compatible, file-wise, with other major software like PCGen, Campaign Cartographer and the presumably upcoming Mastertools. The software could be unique, but with an option to import/ export a lot of different formats.One the CD there should also be lots of players’ handouts with setting information etc. A book like the one I’m talking about is not really one that one will want to loan to the players. I know I can care for a book properly, but I’m less sure about my friends.Personally, I wouldn’t care about sound files, as I haven’t been happy with any gaming related sound files I’ve heard so far. But if other people want them, and they’re not so expensive as to take away other aspects of the book, I couldn’t really care. And who knows? Maybe I’ll find a gem that I can use for the sound when Windows starts up on my machine.In today’s marked, I’m expecting perfection+++ from a $100 game book. At $50 I’d merely expect perfection+. Take a look at some DVDs. See what kinds of extras the movie companies put in and how well received these are.</blockquote>

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