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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 1855377" data-attributes="member: 944">I looked at the Star Wars minis guide yesterday at my FLGSMy imoression is about the same as Phil's -- just not a good value Regarding the costs of other D20 books -- there are a lot of factors in play including market size, presence of distributors and more recently the US is undergoing a nasty bout of energy and currency related inflation ---Anyone buying a game book can expect prices to continue up and the books to become more expensive relative to you wages. I won't go any farther with this as it violates the No Polotics rules but... Fortunately you do have options Legal Free Fan Content -- there is tons of this --PDF content -- Phil has a lot of neat stuff as do a lot of other publishers. Most of the PDF's (not counting Drive Thru) are much less expensive than books and in terms of usefullness just as good Using only what you buy -- I noticed an odd thing that many of the gaming groups I know use rather limited amounts of books --#1 A Hack and Slash group -- it uses Hasbro and Mongoose and thats about it -- its pretty easy to keep up with that #2 Only core and usually one other book for reference (in teh cuirrent campaign the Avalance Arabian Knights book and before that Swashbuckling Adventures) or you can use my  handy RPG value calculator for non collectors  It rates  this way Use for a long time in many campaigns  BESTUse in a campign GOODGet Tidits of use FAIRRead and Enjoy Multiple Times GOODRead and Enjoy once FAIRRead once but find it mediocre POORFind Useless and poorly written POORFactor this by available income/cost ratio and you are good to go</blockquote>

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