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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 5300621" data-attributes="member: 51325">Encyclopedia Magica was the one with the faux leather cover and the nifty silk style bookmark.In terms of production value, it was incredible (one of the few 2e books that has never fallen apart on me compared to say Faiths & Avatars that fell apart after 1 year) and in terms of content, it blew the Magica Encyclopedia out of the water (now THERE was a useless product -- all it did was reference where you could find items and didn't even have all items).EM had full descriptions of EVERY item ever created in TSR products at that time including Dungeon and Dragon!!The EM on the other hand even though it used full colour recycled art actually went to the trouble to MATCH pictures with the category and the black and white art was seviceable in depicting specific items when appropriately described in the text.Great product and I consider EM as one of the "essential" items for any 1e/2e DM playing group (and I've seen similar praise for it on dragonsfoot and r.g.f.d).That said, it was a money loser in that I distinctly remember TSR officials mentioning that they lose money on each book sold since the quality of the book itself was way above average.Conversely, the Spell Compendium actually made money but it's production value could not even come CLOSE to EM. Hell, even the paper quality of EM was at least a grade higher than the type found in typical TSR products of the time.</blockquote>

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