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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 8246636" data-attributes="member: 22424">Yep, I very much meant only from a quantity of info standpoint!I certainly agree about the comparison between the original Ravenloft and CoS. Indeed, somewhere on the site there is probably a review I did of CoS that highlighted exactly that bloat as a weakness.However, we should be wary of reading too much into the comparison. The original Ravenloft is a genuine classic, but it shares its format with such adventures as &quot;The Forest Oracle&quot; and &quot;Quagmire!&quot; which, being charitable, are not.I would suggest therefore that simply changing the format probably wouldn't change the average quality of the offering. And given a choice between spending $50 on a 250-page hardback of mostly-mediocre material that I can spin out into a year of gaming, or spending $75* on a boxed set of mostly-mediocre material that I can spin out into nine months of gaming, I'd probably take the hardback.* $75 is, of course, just a guess. Though, in the UK at least, it's probably going to be on the low side - boxed sets, being games, suffer from import duties and other taxes that books are exempt from.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 8246636, member: 22424"] Yep, I very much meant only from a quantity of info standpoint! I certainly agree about the comparison between the original Ravenloft and CoS. Indeed, somewhere on the site there is probably a review I did of CoS that highlighted exactly that bloat as a weakness. However, we should be wary of reading too much into the comparison. The original Ravenloft is a genuine classic, but it shares its format with such adventures as "The Forest Oracle" and "Quagmire!" which, being charitable, are not. I would suggest therefore that simply changing the format probably wouldn't change the average quality of the offering. And given a choice between spending $50 on a 250-page hardback of mostly-mediocre material that I can spin out into a year of gaming, or spending $75* on a boxed set of mostly-mediocre material that I can spin out into nine months of gaming, I'd probably take the hardback. * $75 is, of course, just a guess. Though, in the UK at least, it's probably going to be on the low side - boxed sets, being games, suffer from import duties and other taxes that books are exempt from. [/QUOTE]

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