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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8099834" data-attributes="member: 5948">I can only speak for the books i own in print (the Midgard worldbook, and the Southlands campaign setting special edition, which was a lucky ebay find since Southlands is no longer in print outside of PoD), but i find them gorgeous.  Page quality very high, both books have a removable poster map in the back.  They're perhaps somewhat lighter in amount of art than WotC books of similar size - very often there'll be multiple pages without any art other than maybe a map or a heraldic crest - but what art there is I find very evocative and high quality.  Mixture of white-background character illustrations in a very WotC style with big scenery paintings, and the odd action scene in a chapter heading etc.  Cartography is very nice but sometimes the labels and lettering are hard to discern/read, especially when you have the additional complication of ley lines all over the place.I haven't owned them for all that long, but they've stood up well so far.  The Midgard book in particular is a big, heavy volume and if it had binding problems I expect they'd have started to show up by now.  Be aware that some of the Kobold products are multi-system or Pathfinder.  The Midgard worldbooks is 5e/PF dual system, Southlands (if you can get it) is purely PF at this stage.  So there's likely to be a bunch of pagecount that's not of much use to you.  There's some more 5e mechanical support in the various Heroes' Handbooks and Deep Magic though.</blockquote>

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