What's with the big books?

[Jim Butler]

Has anyone else noticed that there are some sizable d20 products out there? Some of these are getting ludicrous. Namely Oathbound and Book of the Righteous. Oathbound has more pages, but BotR has a bigger bond so it seems bigger. But there things are HUGE! Does WotC not share who the binder is? Why is FRCS thinner than both of these with the same number of pages? Cost cutting?

Nitpicking here to be sure, but Oathbound is larger than the Realms by 32 pages...

Binding size varies based on the paper used and the binding type used. The thickness of the board for the hardcover also makes a big difference.

In any event, we made Oathbound into one big book because setting books should be as complete as possible. Sure, we could have released it 96 pages at a time over the course of a year and done the same thing, but we wanted it to be a useful, durable, long-term resource for the campaign.

 

[Nightfall]

Don't worry Jim, thick or not, Oathbound is a great book! Glad I got to skim through it!

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

The Ever Quest RPG- that's one huge friggin book. I was pretty impressed by my glance through it... looks like SSS did more justice to the setting than WotC did for Diablo. Of course, whaddya expect from the monkey farm, anyway?

 

[SSS-Druid]

The Ever Quest RPG- that's one huge friggin book.

Man, tell me about it.

That is a book that can be used to overthrow the governments of third-world nations and establish banana republics.

Talk about heft.