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We know are codexes today as a flimsy paperback book that its pages could fall out at second. Well lets just make the pages tear out so we could put them in the plastic page protectors for binders and when our codex has an update we just buy the update packets. When your codex is upgraded to a new edition you buy a new book and star over again. What do you guys and girls think? Good? Bad? I don't care I was just throwing the idea out there.

Probably moot seeing as GW will most likely follow the example of the recent O&G army book and switch to hard backed binding.

My only issue with new OnG book will be the increased price tag.....I love hard cover don't get me wrong but smartest thing to do is give players a option between hard or soft cover.

I have never had any problems with any of my books (since Rogue Trader) losing pages.

Maybe it is because I am not stupid enough to crank it wide open and forcefully press it down so it remains open on the table.

Maybe the books are produced in different places.

Maybe I just got (exceedingly and continuously) lucky.

Sorry what is O&G (OnG)?

Broadside wrote:Sorry what is O&G (OnG)?

Orcs and Goblins.

Like Orks and Gretchin but old-timey

Orcs and Goblins

filbert wrote:Probably moot seeing as GW will most likely follow the example of the recent O&G army book and switch to hard backed binding.

It's a shame you're so likely right, because I think the idea of a binder was a terrific one. You can easily slip in errata and forgeworld experimental stuff, web releases, etc. You know, the stuff you could easily add to a pdf, a link to a digital download of which would be included on the last page, perhaps with a unique registration key, and you'd be sent all kinds of different scenarios and how-to articles.

Then GW can start their own forums, and your profile will show the rulebooks and codexes you own, like how Bioware's pages show the games you own under your name, and then maybe Jervis would show up at your house with a few six packs and you'd go down to Tijuana and catch a donkey show or something, and then you'd realize you've dreamed the whole thing, and the dream started after the word "pdf" in the previous sentence, because in the real world, the world we actually live in, Games Workshop is as likely to leverage social media and the web as they are to lower prices.

Personally I think that's a great idea but yeah I guess it's not some thing we will see happen. The word on the grape vine is all the new fantasy army books will be like the new O&G book and this is GW's way to keep up with the forge world books it's also a kind of trial for future 40k books.

HORRIBLE idea to me.
I like my codices as they are. I've never had a page rip out (even my SM codex), and I certainly don't want them perforated so that, just in case I DON'T want it to happen, it'll happen anyway.

Eric

Seriously, what do you have to do to a codex to make it lose pages?

Scott-S6 wrote:Seriously, what do you have to do to a codex to make it lose pages?

Break the spine.

D&D did it for 2nd Edition for the Monstrous Compendium releases. 2 or 3 big releases came with a binder, and smaller releases could be added in as desired.

I've heard they had issues as people would open up store copies of box sets and such that included pages and steal the loose pages.

The idea didn't carry over to 3rd or 4th, possibly based on production concerns.

The big issue for 40k would be that pages in a binder aren't really more resistant to damage than binding in a softcover.

To be honest, I'm surprised they haven't started offering legal PDF downloads, as cheaper PDF releases would help combat privacy and would be great for people that might not be able to justify buying every codex in hardcover. it'd be kind of cool if they did hardcover releases and $5 PDFs with the painting and modeling stuff cut.

I guess Tau codexes are made more poorly. I had to replace the one I had not to long ago. The pages just started falling out in groups, but that would of never happened. If I could take out the pages, put them in a protective binder, and not worry about "Am I going to rip the page if I tear it off the spine." I would also like GW to make something like update packets so they don't have to make you spend $20 or more on a new codex that hasn't changed that much. I could also make gaming fun if the could release something like patches in videos game. Fix underpowered units or fix overpowered units. Not saying anything is under or overpowered. I think this would work better if they actually released new codexes for all races annually . =/

Scott-S6 wrote:Seriously, what do you have to do to a codex to make it lose pages?

In the case of my Necron codex, "read it careful and infrequently" :(