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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zustiur" data-source="post: 1008888" data-attributes="member: 1544">WowThis idea is sooooooo cool!For me, this would be perfect: In my gaming group, I am the only one who has any of the books. Therefore we only have one set of books.Which means 1 PHB between 5 players.A pocket PHB would mean either: A) it would be easier to convince my players to buy them as they would hopefully be cheaper.OrB) I wouldn't be buying multiple copies of books I already have, when I only need multiple copies of specific parts of those books.I really think the pocket ones have to be cheaper however - due to less content.I see them as being rules only.No pictures, no story/descriptive text. Just the facts. That way, you buy the real PHB, DMG, MM for all the in depth stuff. And the little books for table use - when you need to be looking up separate rules issues during a game. In my case, that would mean I'd probably have the real PHB in another room for when I'm designing, and we'd just have 2 or 3 little PHB's on the table - taking up less space, and allowing multiple players to level up or read spells at the same time.I think probably this is an idea for 3.5 ed though. Which is a pity as I don't intend to convert (see above complaing about being the only person to buy the books).Ultimately I believe, the books NEED the combat pictures I've heard about from 3.5. But they don't need: non rules stuff like the following passage taken from page 11 of the PHB."The elven woods are home to the elves and their allies." Especially since such comments are game world specific.I'm no so sure of the usefulness of compacted DMG and MM however.  I'm more inclined to think along the lines mentioned in one of the posts above - Break the current books up into: Character pocket book, Combat pocket book, Spells pocket book, and Items pocket book.Or some similar set of divisions.Zustiur.p.s. Sorry it got so long.</blockquote>

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