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<blockquote data-quote="Doc_Klueless" data-source="post: 6302466" data-attributes="member: 261">If you're reading the thread over at rpg.net, feel free to ignore this post... Actually, feel free to ignore it for no reason at all! I'm alright with that!Aaaanyway...Myself (and I might be in the minority here), the price point is not an issue. By that, I mean, I don't mind at all that it's more expensive than Pathfinder. It's really for a simple reason, I like the books split into three. The Pathfinder Core Rulebook is just too massive for me. (All the following is IMHO, To Me, YMMV, etc.) It's too heavy to easily pass around the table. It's too difficult to find anything quickly in the book. Too heavy to heave from game to game. It's just too... well... much, I guess. Because of the massive size of the Tome of Pathfinder&nbsp; , I no longer take it to games and rely on the PDF which is bookmarked/hyperlinked/whatever-kids-are-calling-it-now-days which makes it easy for me to FIND things. So in the end the price of the physical book doesn't matter. The SIZE of the physical book matters to me. If by splitting out the dm and players stuff in DDN into two books makes the book I'd primarily be using (the PHB) to play into a size that I can easily pass around and find things in, it's worth an extra $20 to me. I'll pick up the DMG and MM also, but as I almost always run whatever game I'm running from my apartment, their bulk doesn't enter into the portability issue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doc_Klueless, post: 6302466, member: 261"] If you're reading the thread over at rpg.net, feel free to ignore this post... Actually, feel free to ignore it for no reason at all! I'm alright with that! Aaaanyway... Myself (and I might be in the minority here), the price point is not an issue. By that, I mean, I don't mind at all that it's more expensive than Pathfinder. It's really for a simple reason, I like the books split into three. The Pathfinder Core Rulebook is just too massive for me. (All the following is IMHO, To Me, YMMV, etc.) It's too heavy to easily pass around the table. It's too difficult to find anything quickly in the book. Too heavy to heave from game to game. It's just too... well... much, I guess. Because of the massive size of the Tome of Pathfinder , I no longer take it to games and rely on the PDF which is bookmarked/hyperlinked/whatever-kids-are-calling-it-now-days which makes it easy for me to FIND things. So in the end the price of the physical book doesn't matter. The SIZE of the physical book matters to me. If by splitting out the dm and players stuff in DDN into two books makes the book I'd primarily be using (the PHB) to play into a size that I can easily pass around and find things in, it's worth an extra $20 to me. I'll pick up the DMG and MM also, but as I almost always run whatever game I'm running from my apartment, their bulk doesn't enter into the portability issue. [/QUOTE]

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