How Much Do You Care About Form Factor/Book Size?

[nightlight.zero]

I really like A5/digest sized print formats - not needing a side table to hold a book when I’m GMing at the table is a big selling point. Plus, I think this page size drives the most efficient rules articulation / layout decisions. Too many A4/letter sized print formats just overuse words because they can’t fill the space in other ways.

 

[stormwriter]

I'm the opposite of the OP. I much prefer digest/A5 sized books. I have skipped a number of 3rd party Shadowdark kickstarters because they were letter sized, and would look weird on the shelf next to the SD core book.

John

Matching the game is pretty important for me. I have also skipped some 3rd party Savage Worlds supplements for the same reason, they were A4 instead of the “comic” size of the main SWADE books.

 

[aramis erak]

When I started running a lot of Savage Worldds the physical size was a turn- off. Now I prefer it.

My dead tree of Savage Worlds is letter size... I should dig it out of storage to put it into my SW materials box. I think it's the 2005 printing, but I haven't it to hand to check.
I didn't get the dead tree, but the Pirates of the Spanish Main core was also letter-sized.
After 2012, the trade paperback size seems to have taken over.

 

[thullgrim]

Matching the game is pretty important for me. I have also skipped some 3rd party Savage Worlds supplements for the same reason, they were A4 instead of the “comic” size of the main SWADE books.

Same. I’ve skipped a couple simply because of the size difference.

 

[stormwriter]

My dead tree of Savage Worlds is letter size... I should dig it out of storage to put it into my SW materials box. I think it's the 2005 printing, but I haven't it to hand to check.

They were using letter size in the past (Deluxe and prior editions), but since the Explorer and Adventure editions, all the official books have been graphic novel size, which is somewhere between A5 and A4. The Trinity Continuum books from Onyx Path also use a similar size.

 

[Sacrosanct]

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