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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5691427" data-attributes="member: 82106">Eh, as I said earlier, it is a question of balancing easier access to the material for more customers vs reducing page count, and presumably price, slightly. WotC will ask itself a question like "will cutting the price of books by $2 create more extra sales than we'll lose from all the over 45 gamers out there that won't be able to read the book anymore?"I guess it would be interesting to know the demographics of purchasers of different books and games, though I suspect even WotC can't really get complete data on that. I just know that I sat in B&N and looked over the PF core book thoroughly, and between the sheer obtuseness of PF rules, a small font, and the various screening and whatnot on the page reducing contrast it wasn't an enjoyable experience. So I didn't buy the product, which otherwise I might have been inclined to do. Is there a 'compromise'? Well, maybe. I can't tell you at exactly what point size the text becomes more effort to read, or if a slightly less generous use of whitespace in the layout would make any difference without seeing it. I do know there's a difference and I suspect it is a continuum. Every move in the direction of tiny condensed text and monolithic "wall o' text" layout adds a little effort. At some point you begin to notice it and feel like you want to go on to something easier to read.</blockquote>