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Monster Manual is kaput...

Started by Doom, October 06, 2015, 12:36:29 AM

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Old Gumphrey

#30
November 03, 2015, 05:02:24 AM
My 5e PHB and MM are disintegrating. Worst binding job of any major RPG book I've ever owned, flat out. WotC demands the original sales receipt, which of course I don't have because I bought it a year ago and they're hardcover books that should've ostensibly lasted 30+ years.

Kellri

#31
November 03, 2015, 06:24:01 AM
Quote from: Omega;862702The common advice publishers and toy manufacturers give to people using China based factories is to have an observer over there and watch them like a hawk. It might not be needed. But sure enough its the one time you dont that things go to hell.

One company back around 2000 ended up going out of business after they switched to a cheaper company in China who proceeded to scam them, send out samples that were not what they were actually producing and cut corners on materials such that the product actually destroyed itself.

That's good advice for anything being manufactured in Asia for export. I know a number of quality control supervisors whose jobs basically amount to explaining to the overseas customer why they completely fucked up the product. Often they have to actually go abroad to the customer and do it.

In any case, I'm fluent in Mandarin and know my way around the business community in Asia as well as the publishing industry if anyone's looking for a contact over here.
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camazotz

#32
November 03, 2015, 03:17:14 PM
My first copy started losing pages but my second copy is okay so far....but I've been coddling it, too.

RunningLaser

#33
November 03, 2015, 03:36:20 PM
If WoTC won't replace it without the original receipt, you might want to look into getting page protectors and putting it in a 3 ring binder.  

Again, as far as bindings go- it doesn't matter where it's made, but how.  Looking at my 5th ed D&D PHB- it says that it's printed in the USA.  

My guess is that WoTC wanted to sell the books at a price point.  If they were to do fully colored sewn hardcovers printed in the USA, they probably would have been north of $70 a book.  People would have wailed at that.  

I wonder if Kevin Siembieda would ever reveal just where he gets his stuff printed?

RPGPundit

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November 08, 2015, 09:14:59 PM
Quote from: RunningLaser;862895I wonder if Kevin Siembieda would ever reveal just where he gets his stuff printed?

Did he not have his own printers?
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