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Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fiery James" data-source="post: 2702639" data-attributes="member: 625">Hi James,I look forward to reviewing your review. <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=":)" />T&T isn't for everyone, certainly, and the 30th Anniversary Edition was aimed squarely at fans of the previous versions who hadn't received a new edition in 20 years.  It was an interesting adventure working with Rick Loomis and Ken St. Andre (and Liz Danforth) to bring about this 7th Edition.However, it seems your main issue is with the production values.  Just to make everything clear, we're not in business to lose money.  That may be stating the obvious, but I want that noted before you explain how you could have the 120-page 5x7 coil-bound rulebook, plus the 2 saddle-stiched bonus books, plus the CD replication and printing, plus the fold-out grayscale battlemat, plus the color die-cut counters, plus the dice (!) taken care of for $6.00 (which would be your take from distribution on a $15 product, if you were direct and didn't pay any fees to warehouse, ship or sell the product) AND STILL pay for the writing, art, layout, licensing fee, physical production (someone's got to put everything together and shrinkwrap it), shipping and advertising.Not to challenge you on this issue or anything, but phrases like, "an unfair gouge" need to be elaborated on.Another quick note on the claims of false advertising -- honestly, every ad we paid for (in Dungeon and Dragon) shows the cover plus 3 words: "Real simple roleplaying."  In those ads, we never actually discussed the contents.Having said my piece in our opening pre-review salvos, I await your review and opinion on this product.  And, I assure you, there is a market willing to take this off your hands should you feel the need to sell.  If it doesn't work out, let me know and I'll work out some other arrangement to your satisfaction.One James to another,- JB</blockquote>

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