03-03-2011, 06:56 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Low Tech
As much as I am liking Gurps and enjoying the Low Tech book, I am not happy that it is much shorter in content. I like my Gurps books like I like my Steaks...thick and full of flavor!
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03-03-2011, 07:05 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: New mexico
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Re: Low Tech
You might look into the Low Tech Companions, on E23. They're only available as PDFs, but they have a lot of information on how low-tech societies work.
Low Tech Companion 1: Philosophers and Kings Low Tech Companion 2: Weapons and Warriors Low Tech Companion 3: Daily Life and Economics |
03-03-2011, 07:21 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: Low Tech
I would rather pay more to have it all in one hardback then strewn across a hardback and multiple PDFs. I would have saved some money as well.
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03-03-2011, 09:32 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Charlotte, North Caroline, United States of America, Earth?
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Re: Low Tech
Yes, but SJgames is a business, and they have to make some decisions based on what saves THEM money, so they can continue to provide us with products that we want and need.
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03-03-2011, 11:02 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Maitland, NSW, Australia
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Re: Low Tech
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03-04-2011, 01:05 AM | #8 |
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Re: Low Tech
And people who wouldn't have paid for everything might not have paid for any of it. It was a business decision to split up the crunch and the fluff in order to increase sales to people who just wanted certain parts.
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03-04-2011, 05:11 AM | #9 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: in your pocket, stealing all your change
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Re: Low Tech
I'm pretty happy with the format SJG used, as for the separate PDFs, it hardly matters as they're minuscle in any pendrive or whatever device you use to store them. I sometimes also find it useful to check several books at the same time, which would be much harder to do if it was the same file.
While it would be "kinda neat" to have it all in one book, I'd be hardpress to give any good reasons for this. SJGs has pretty good reasons for doing it their way. As long as they're happy and keep printing this sort of high-quality, well researched, well edited stuff... I'm happy. Edit: plus, on the consumer side, it makes more sense that you can buy the bits you WANT instead of paying for the whole page-count if you don't wanna... personally I could have skipped LTC1, I bought it anyway, but I didn't have to. Last edited by Gudiomen; 03-04-2011 at 05:14 AM. |
03-04-2011, 10:17 AM | #10 |
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Albuquerque, NM
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Re: Low Tech
I'm eagerly awaiting POD. In my dream, I can order Low Tech + Companions 1-3 in a single hardbound book.
Next would be Action 1-3, DF 1-3, and the entire Spaceships series, each in their own hardback. A guy can dream. |
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