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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 6272139" data-attributes="member: 52734">A mini rant here ...One of the things I'm afraid that will have have pushed this book to the $50 mark is &quot;The Pretty&quot;.&nbsp; Pathfinder's core rulebooks suffer from it the most.&nbsp; All the designers have to do is look at the number of folks who downloaded the playtest packets, which had 0 art in them to realize that the value is in the rules themselves and that the shiny of the glossy page backgrounds and copious art isn't needed.&nbsp; Granted, I do like some art in my books, but I like it on the levels that we saw back in the 2E days of the rulebooks (better art, but about the same arrangement), and to a large degree the 4E core books.The worst rulebook as far as layout that I can recall is WEG's Star Wars 2nd edition rulebook.&nbsp; Tiny font arranged in blocks on newsprint-like paper interspersed with poorly toned pictures from the movie.&nbsp; Contrast it to WEG's Star Wars 2nd edition Revised and Expanded book.&nbsp; I loved the layout of the latter and while there was a lot of color going on it wasn't on EVERY page.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 6272139, member: 52734"] A mini rant here ... One of the things I'm afraid that will have have pushed this book to the $50 mark is "The Pretty". Pathfinder's core rulebooks suffer from it the most. All the designers have to do is look at the number of folks who downloaded the playtest packets, which had 0 art in them to realize that the value is in the rules themselves and that the shiny of the glossy page backgrounds and copious art isn't needed. Granted, I do like some art in my books, but I like it on the levels that we saw back in the 2E days of the rulebooks (better art, but about the same arrangement), and to a large degree the 4E core books. The worst rulebook as far as layout that I can recall is WEG's Star Wars 2nd edition rulebook. Tiny font arranged in blocks on newsprint-like paper interspersed with poorly toned pictures from the movie. Contrast it to WEG's Star Wars 2nd edition Revised and Expanded book. I loved the layout of the latter and while there was a lot of color going on it wasn't on EVERY page. [/QUOTE]

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