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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6044293" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>For <strong>core rules</strong>, I really want a GOOD SIZE because I want the core game to be broad and versatile enough so that it can be played from level 1 to last level without supplements, and with enough variety on characters.</p><p></p><p>For practical reasons, I don't like books over 300 pages, unless those books are just for "offline reading" (and even then, I like reading in bed, so I wouldn't want my books to be too heavy...), but if I am going to consult the books during game, they shouldn't be bigger than that. </p><p></p><p>Therefore I'm sticking to my preferred format of 3 core books of ~300 pages each.</p><p></p><p>For supplements, I don't care... if the topic covered is narrow, then let the book be small, otherwise bigger. There can be 100, 200 or 300 books, I don't mind as long as the topic gets the size it deserves, no fillers and no missed opportunities.</p><p></p><p>There are books the topic of which doesn't imply any size, e.g. monster manuals. In that case I'd prefer a 200-300 range, again ~300 being probably the best.</p><p></p><p>Frequency of supplements: uhm... doesn't matter much to me, I'm not a heavy buyer I guess, I tend to buy what I can use. So if they put out too many too quickly, I won't have time to use them so I certainly won't buy them either. But I guess that heavy gamers need more so let it be.</p><p></p><p>No comments about the $ cost... the cheaper the more I'll buy, it's actually quite simple. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6044293, member: 1465"] For [B]core rules[/B], I really want a GOOD SIZE because I want the core game to be broad and versatile enough so that it can be played from level 1 to last level without supplements, and with enough variety on characters. For practical reasons, I don't like books over 300 pages, unless those books are just for "offline reading" (and even then, I like reading in bed, so I wouldn't want my books to be too heavy...), but if I am going to consult the books during game, they shouldn't be bigger than that. Therefore I'm sticking to my preferred format of 3 core books of ~300 pages each. For supplements, I don't care... if the topic covered is narrow, then let the book be small, otherwise bigger. There can be 100, 200 or 300 books, I don't mind as long as the topic gets the size it deserves, no fillers and no missed opportunities. There are books the topic of which doesn't imply any size, e.g. monster manuals. In that case I'd prefer a 200-300 range, again ~300 being probably the best. Frequency of supplements: uhm... doesn't matter much to me, I'm not a heavy buyer I guess, I tend to buy what I can use. So if they put out too many too quickly, I won't have time to use them so I certainly won't buy them either. But I guess that heavy gamers need more so let it be. No comments about the $ cost... the cheaper the more I'll buy, it's actually quite simple. :) [/QUOTE]
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