C&C Flipbook... A preview of what's to come?
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:18 pm
Got my copy of the C&C Flipbook in the mail today.
The C&C Flipbook was one of the unique items for sale in the Trolls annual 12 Days of Christmas Sale.
Essentially, for $20.00 + shipping the C&C flipbook is exactly as described. On one side you have the 4th printing Players Handbook, and flip it over you have the corrected 3rd printing (including shark stats!) Monsters & Treasures book. All together this is a phenominal deal.
The C&C Flipbook contains has the covers of the PHB4th and M&T3rd but in an alternate color scheme. The color is a more of a cream color, similar as seen on some of the recent TLG modules. Total, this book is 272 pages and in softcover form.
Clearly TLG is making strides in using their techology to make these humungous softcover books possible. If you like the novelty, and want a single volume for the PHB and M&T in one book, this is for you.
A big, softcover book like that feels pretty good and is put togehter quite well. I see this book getting a lot of use.
I wonder though, why did the Trolls turn this into a "flipbook?" It looks cool, and works perfectly but is kind of wierd at the same time. Why not just combine the books, back-to-back without the flipping novelty? Perhaps this book is a dry run for what the Trolls might be doing in the future. In another thread releating to the 2009 TLG 12 Days of Christmas Sale, Trolllord Steve gave hint that perhaps a combo book like this (or something related) might be in the works for GenCon 2010. Perhaps this is the fabled Rules Cyclopedia-like version of the C&C rules that were rumored of many, many moons ago. Trolllord Steve did also mention that Peter Bradley was hard at work on this project (whatever it might really be).
If this is indeed a dry run for a future product, or simply just a Troll Curiosity, the C&C Flipbook is quite cool.
~O
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The C&C Flipbook was one of the unique items for sale in the Trolls annual 12 Days of Christmas Sale.
Essentially, for $20.00 + shipping the C&C flipbook is exactly as described. On one side you have the 4th printing Players Handbook, and flip it over you have the corrected 3rd printing (including shark stats!) Monsters & Treasures book. All together this is a phenominal deal.
The C&C Flipbook contains has the covers of the PHB4th and M&T3rd but in an alternate color scheme. The color is a more of a cream color, similar as seen on some of the recent TLG modules. Total, this book is 272 pages and in softcover form.
Clearly TLG is making strides in using their techology to make these humungous softcover books possible. If you like the novelty, and want a single volume for the PHB and M&T in one book, this is for you.
A big, softcover book like that feels pretty good and is put togehter quite well. I see this book getting a lot of use.
I wonder though, why did the Trolls turn this into a "flipbook?" It looks cool, and works perfectly but is kind of wierd at the same time. Why not just combine the books, back-to-back without the flipping novelty? Perhaps this book is a dry run for what the Trolls might be doing in the future. In another thread releating to the 2009 TLG 12 Days of Christmas Sale, Trolllord Steve gave hint that perhaps a combo book like this (or something related) might be in the works for GenCon 2010. Perhaps this is the fabled Rules Cyclopedia-like version of the C&C rules that were rumored of many, many moons ago. Trolllord Steve did also mention that Peter Bradley was hard at work on this project (whatever it might really be).
If this is indeed a dry run for a future product, or simply just a Troll Curiosity, the C&C Flipbook is quite cool.
~O
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> Omote's Advanced C&C stuff <
Duke Omote Landwehr, Holy Order of the FPQ ~ Prince of the Castles & Crusades Society