When something is priced at $429, it means you’re trying too hard to obtain it & you need to back off (exponentially) or the price will increase to $503 & nobody wants that.
> For the first edition we were determined to fit everything into a single core book, partly because we’re allergic to the not-uncommon business practice of releasing multiple unnecessary books just because people will buy them. As work on 2E progressed we became convinced we could best serve the game, and the needs of players and GMs, with two reasonably-sized books instead of one huge book.
I tend to avoid massive tombs like that, because of time and to some degree, attention -- but I'm trying to come up with a reason to justify it, and...Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo? Then it kind of...falls off, into a void.
@Binder There was some sort of something in the trade, or was for a while, where there was this push to "pad out novels so they'd cost more", from what I hear. Which I'm very certain went over as well as you'd think it would, both for readers and authors alike
@Binder Agreed and...something? I've never written one, but I can attest to there being a sort of "sanity firewall" that keeps me from trying, even though there's part of me that's like "aw! 500 pages, then? i mean, come on"
The Disposable Heroes cover starts with a sample from that, then "I'm Governor Pete Wilson you know, the baddest governor to ever grab a mic and go BOOM!"
Which given somewhat recent events, deserves to be remembered both as "cool cover, nice" and prophecy imo