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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 2503551" data-attributes="member: 22882">How do you define 'production values,' anyway?  Color art?  High-quality paper?  The inevitable search for ever more cumbersome and infuriating hardcovers <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> ?Sovreign Press uses all color art and glossy paper for their entire Dragonlance line.  Glossy!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />  I'd probably have to give them the nod as having the best production values overall, unless someone knows of a critical flaw in their books - a recurring binding error or some such.  Of course, they're sort of a second party publisher with direct ties to Wizards.Sword & Sorcery Studios' Warcraft books, except for the computer graphics in the current one, have better-than-WotC production values, especially when you consider that their art is electronic game concept art quality - a tier above, at least in terms of pay, I wager.AEG's Spycraft (I know, non-D&D, but this isn't a direct response to the OP) was all color art, nice paper, in a stupidly thick, heavy-bound hardcover.  What hardcovers they have produced for D&D, like the original d20 Rokugan book, have been of WotC caliber.Mongoose's entire Conan line is full color.  Initially, I would have said the art was at or above WotC level, particularly the gorgeous covers, but it seems they're reusing cover images now. :\   I seem to recall some binding issues with the core book, too.Only Sovreign Press has met WotC production values consistently.Of course, given the choice between two black and white softcovers for $19.99 each and one color hardcover for 34.99, I'll spend $5.00 more to get the softcovers; the weight and convenience is easily worth extra cash and the loss of color art.</blockquote>

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