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<blockquote data-quote="Echohawk" data-source="post: 9105588" data-attributes="member: 9849">My copy of The Practically Complete Guide to Dragons arrived today, so I've had a chance to compare it to its ancestors. Some observations:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">This is primarily a reprint of The Practical Guide to Dragons. It has about a third of The Practical Guide to Dragon Magic and even less of The Practical Guide to Dragon Riding mixed in to fill out the page count. The content has been slotted together in a logical manner and you wouldn't know it was originally from three separate books.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Even though many of the page spreads have the same illustrations as the original, there is also a lot of new art. I think all of the main, full-page pictures of each type of dragon are completely new.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The pages of the new book are whiter and glossier than the original. The original Practical Guides used a yellow, fake parchment type of paper, with notes often presented as hand-written additions to the text. The new presentation is cleaner with neat post-it notes for comments on the main text.</li>
</ul>I think I slightly prefer the original, messier style of presentation, but only when comparing the two books side-by-side. If I only had The Practically Complete Guide, I'd be quite happy with the style. Like the originals, this would make a great gift for a junior D&amp;D player, or any child of the appropriate age with an interest in fantasy. It's also a decent coffee table book for adults.If you already have the originals, you don't need this, but if you already have the originals, you're probably a D&amp;D collector and then you'll want this anyway. (He says, patting copies of the Dungeons &amp; Dragons Word Search and Coloring Book and the Official Dungeons &amp; Dragons Tarot Deck which arrived in the same package...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Echohawk, post: 9105588, member: 9849"] My copy of [I]The Practically Complete Guide to Dragons[/I] arrived today, so I've had a chance to compare it to its ancestors. Some observations: [LIST] [*]This is primarily a reprint of [I]The Practical Guide to Dragons[/I]. It has about a third of [I]The Practical Guide to Dragon Magic [/I]and even less of [I]The Practical Guide to Dragon Riding[/I] mixed in to fill out the page count. The content has been slotted together in a logical manner and you wouldn't know it was originally from three separate books. [*]Even though many of the page spreads have the same illustrations as the original, there is also a lot of new art. I think all of the main, full-page pictures of each type of dragon are completely new. [*]The pages of the new book are whiter and glossier than the original. The original [I]Practical Guides [/I]used a yellow, fake parchment type of paper, with notes often presented as hand-written additions to the text. The new presentation is cleaner with neat post-it notes for comments on the main text. [/LIST] I think I slightly prefer the original, messier style of presentation, but only when comparing the two books side-by-side. If I only had [I]The Practically Complete Guide[/I], I'd be quite happy with the style. Like the originals, this would make a great gift for a junior D&D player, or any child of the appropriate age with an interest in fantasy. It's also a decent coffee table book for adults. If you already have the originals, you don't need this, but if you already have the originals, you're probably a D&D collector and then you'll want this anyway. (He says, patting copies of the [I]Dungeons & Dragons Word Search and Coloring Book[/I] and the [I]Official Dungeons & Dragons Tarot Deck[/I] which arrived in the same package...) [/QUOTE]

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