Timeline for Is this question about the preservation of books on topic?
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| Mar 30, 2022 at 22:57 | comment | added | Trish | @TylerH You need to look at books from the 90s, where the paper was bad when they came out already. | |
| Mar 30, 2022 at 18:22 | comment | added | TylerH | @Trish Fair enough; I am perhaps spoiled by D&D 5E as the only hard copy books I own (PDFs or scans are all I ever had of Pathfinder or other RPGs), so maybe WoTC uses slightly higher quality printing methods/materials. | |
| Mar 29, 2022 at 15:47 | comment | added | Trish | @TylerH the usage profile of an RPG book is usually harder on it than on other books. They are printed at times on the worst paper but have seen use far beyond what a school book used for a decade sees. | |
| Mar 29, 2022 at 7:17 | vote | accept | Thomas Markov | ||
| Mar 24, 2022 at 17:03 | comment | added | TylerH | @Someone_Evil My confusion was about your statement that RPGs have "specific properties"... what specific properties do they have (other than the obvious conclusion that they are about the subject of RPGs...) that other books do not? | |
| Mar 24, 2022 at 16:40 | comment | added | Someone_Evil Mod | @TylerH We don't need the aspects to be unique, that's why I opened like I did (and I opened so because it comes up a lot, not because it was specifically raised here. At least not by Thomas). The properties and usage may be shared with other fields, but that doesn't mean that saying they are RPG books doesn't say anything about their properties (and doubly so for usage) | |
| Mar 24, 2022 at 16:35 | comment | added | TylerH | RE: And there's even aspects which are entirely RPG specific. RPG books (and varying with time and publisher) have specific properties. What properties are specific (read: unique) about RPG books? They are shaped, constituted, and printed the same way other illustrated books are with the same basic materials: paper and ink. | |
| Mar 24, 2022 at 16:35 | comment | added | TylerH | I don't see the point of the first two sentences; Thomas doesn't seem to raise the argument that this is on-topic on another site and thus shouldn't be asked here. | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 21:10 | comment | added | doppelgreener | The “better/different/more specific answer” criteria from our on-topic help (in turn from campaign research questions part 2) might be useful to reference directly also. | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 21:03 | history | answered | Someone_EvilMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |