My PHB2 shrivelled like cooked bacon

[jdrakeh]

Paper is a such a porous substrate that it reacts pretty quickly to humidity so it can get this waviness pretty quickly

I've seen it happen in less than eight hours to an entire five shelf bookcase full of. . . er. . . books. . . due to an overnight change in temperature and humidity. The worst my own books have ever experienced the phenomena was when I moved from Topeka, KS to Ridgecrest, CA back in 2002. That messed all of my books up for a good week and a half.

 

[CubeKnight]

Is this normal?

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I posted on wizards.com forums and people are saying its just a local climate issue? I don't want to pay $35 for a shrivelled-up ass book. None of my other books are all shriveled up.

At my local, every single PHB2 is shrivelled up. All the other books look normal. Even at the Bookstar, the book was shrivelled. Is that a printing issue or climate?

*is shocked*
I... I... isn't it normal for books to be like that?
Pretty much all the books I've owned over here have ended like that... then again, we're at 98% humidity, 98°F right now...

 

[Henry]

D&D books are printed in the USA or Canada. The only exceptions are Dungeons Tiles and the RPG Starter

Cool to know. Thanks, Scott!

I've only noticed it with the glossier stock from magazines and like the books WotC's been doing since 2003. The original 3E books I never saw or heard any issue with, and earlier books were definitely different paper and probably different printers. I'd have to think that some more recent printing trends (the paper used or some such?) is partly responsible. It's one of those things that people take for granted, and it's hard to find specifics on.

 

[jdrakeh]

*is shocked*
I... I... isn't it normal for books to be like that?
Pretty much all the books I've owned over here have ended like that... then again, we're at 98% humidity, 98°F right now...

No doubt! I remember stepping off of the plane in Mérida and being hit with a wall of humidity so thick that it actually distorted my vision

 

[CubeKnight]

No doubt! I remember stepping off of the plane in Mérida and being hit with a wall of humidity so thick that it actually distorted my vision

You start to think of it as the norm if you've lived here for all your life. When I went to study to Europe, it was hell getting used to the dry weather over there.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Is this normal?

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I posted on wizards.com forums and people are saying its just a local climate issue? I don't want to pay $35 for a shrivelled-up ass book. None of my other books are all shriveled up.

At my local, every single PHB2 is shrivelled up. All the other books look normal. Even at the Bookstar, the book was shrivelled. Is that a printing issue or climate?

God is punishing you because you're a furry.

 

[jaerdaph]

Your humidity detector is broken. San Diego is often humid, and right this moment it is 48% humidity.

You Californians don't know what real humidity is!
But then again our New York City earthquakes are pretty lame compared to yours.

 

[darjr]

I'm in the midwest. We just went from really cold with a bunch of snow on the ground to short weather in less than a week.

My books were a bit wavy in the summer after I bought them, through the winter it went away.

 

[Wik]

Y'know, I'm sure it's happened to my books, but I never notice. I'm too busy flipping through 'em going "hey! They mispelled 'Mordenkainen'! What Geeks!".

I'm curious now, though - were all PHB 2s printed in the states, or were Canadian-bound books printed up north? I only ask because something like 90% of the books I buy were printed in Canada.

 

[TarionzCousin]

D&D books are printed in the USA or Canada. The only exceptions are Dungeons Tiles and the RPG Starter

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