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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Razz" data-source="post: 2980136" data-attributes="member: 3014">Does anyone remember 2E? That edition of D&D where things were either all fluff, all crunch, or a beautiful mix of the two? When books were made of soft-cover, didn't have tons of elgant and expensive art and maps and were always $20 or less? (on Amazon, these would amount to $13 or less). Where the font size was small enough so that it did not matter how many pages were in the book because the smaller the book the smaller the font so they essentially squeezed in the same amount of material?Yeah, I remember those days.I don't understand WotC. Does EVERYTHING have to be hard cover and elegantly formatted? If the number of their pages were dropped, why not decrease the font size? Say it was font size 12 in 192 pages, why not drop it to size 10 when the pages decreased to 160? They're worried about space and material getting cut and either forgotten or made into WE, why not do that?Case in point, the perfect font size for all D&D books, whether between 160 or 320 pages, would be the font size in the 3E Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. That was perfect right there.If MM4 was that font size, same layout and same pages (224), I would not be so adamant about how sucky it is. I'd actually like it. It'd actually have enough to please everyone. Over 150+ monsters, I estimate, all laid out in the same format and pleasing all at once. Price increase? Who cares! I'd rather pay an extra $10 than get stuck on the losing end of the deal.</blockquote>

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