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Message: <blockquote data-quote="twofalls" data-source="post: 3210451" data-attributes="member: 23718">I've bought into it, they sold me on the glitz and the uniqueness, and I plunked my money down for word count in these game books. When the WLD came out I just had to have it, nothing like it had ever been created before. The Ruins of Undermountain couldn't compare to it, this book had it all fleshed out form levels one through twenty! Then Piazo published Shackled City, an entire campaign in one book, WOW,  I just had to have it, full color and all spelled out in four hundred pages of fun! Then Ptolus came out... man, over 600 pages of city (this is a beautiful product btw) I just have to have that too, so now I do. The World's Largest City is out now too... bigger is better right? After all I enjoy my big coke, and the extra big package of fries that I get for my extra $1.69 at the McDonalds window... why not in my rpg products?I noticed in the 2007 lineup from WotC that there are two projects (four books total) that are following the high page count concept down the mega module path. I look at my shelf, bulging with D20 products... my D20 book collection Dwarfs my OD&D and 1st/2nd D&D collection easily 10 to 1.  I have literally hundreds of new shiny hardback D20 books (well some aren't so shiny anymore after use) and I think about the time when I was 10 years old back in 1979 and started playing the game. I had one book, the AD&D PHB and later the MM and DMG... I played endless games with just those three books. No mega this or super that.I look back at my high page count megabooks and I ask myself, gee how much play have I managed to squeeze out of these books? I ran the first section of the WLD… 1/10th of the module(?) and now it is collecting dust. I read the first few entries of Shackled City… Ptolus I am actually getting some use out of… but so far all I have used is a few buildings in Delvers Square for a new game. Do I need WLC… I mean really? Bardsgate sits unused on my shelf, Waterdeep, a handful of well designed and never used Scarred Lands cities…I'm not saying these new products are a bad thing, it just makes me wonder at my sense of - WoW  I just have to have that! - and ask, why? I will probably still buy the Forgotten Realms books, I keep collecting the materials to my favorite all time setting... but I have little excuse for the mega city/dungeon/adventure products that are coming out from other sources other than to say, I bought into it. I allowed myself to become dazzled by super sized rpging. I wonder how many extra calories they are?</blockquote>

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