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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krensky" data-source="post: 4412528" data-attributes="member: 30936">Do I think a folder of papers sold with a piece of paper to keep the UPC and blurb and such off the folder and then shrink wrapped is over packaging? No. It's pretty damn close to the minimum amount of packaging possible for the item. They could loose the paper, but that would reduce the value (such as it is) of the item since the folder would be covered in titles and ISBNs and UPCcodes and blurb text instead of being, you know, a folder. I haven't seen a single complaint that the character sheets are over packaged, just that they are poor value for the money.The books aren't shrinkwrapped, the slip cased set is. The set needs shrinkwrap to keep the books with the case. The slipcase does preform a function. The same function they preform for every book, CD, DVD, LP, or boked set of the above that has them. Protection and collectable value. The primary point of a slip cover on a book is to protect the edges of the text block, reduce abrasion on the edge of the covers, and hold the book closed to help reduce the long term effects of humidity by both helping keep it away from the text block and limiting the swelling. Considering some of the production quality issues with the core books, even considering that they're mass market cardboard articles and not real hardbacks, anything to reduce the swelling and rippling of the pages is for the good. Also, since it's a set, the box keeps them together, the same way a box does in a boxed set of DVDs, CDs, LPs, or whatever does.</blockquote>

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