Largest RPG Book Ever?


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Publisher, Frog God Games

So right now its Tsar, closely followed by Tome Complete...will the record hold?

News tomorrow...it may not.


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Those are bigger than HERO System Fifth Edition Revised? I am impressed.

Publisher, Frog God Games

937 on Tsar

Grand Lodge

I don't know how my shelves bear the weight...


Distant Scholar wrote:
Those are bigger than HERO System Fifth Edition Revised? I am impressed.

Considering that there's video out there of that book STOPPING BULLETS? I'm impressed indeed.


I had to buy new bookshelves to hold them. I mean 2 copies of RA, Slumbering Tsar, Tome of Horrors Complete, Tome of Horrors 4, Stoneheart Valley, Razor Coast (PF and S&W), Sword of Air, Tome of Adventure Design, Dunes of Desolation, Fields of Blood, Book of Lost Spells, Quests of Doom (PF & 5E), Cyclopean Deeps I & II, The Lost City of Barakus, The Black Monastery, RA Expansion Vol 1, etc.

EDIT: There are only 2 copies of RA, everything else is single copies.


Yay Northlands!

Layout and Design, Frog God Games

As I've not laid out Northlands yet, any page count given is a estimated by word count!

(Also, as far as I can figure, HERO System Fifth Edition Revised clocks in around 550 pages. The Slumbering Tsar Saga is about 950 pages, Tome of Horrors Complete is nearly 800 for the Pathfinder edition and Rappan Athuk is just under 650 for the Pathfinder version. :) The "runt" of the litter right now is "Sword of Air" at just over 500 pages including the map section.)


Bill Webb wrote:
937 on Tsar

amazon.com lists Hero System 5th Edition (revised) as 11 x 8.5 x 1.7 inches and 4.1 pounds.

It lists The Slumbering Tsar Saga as 11.4 x 8.9 x 1.9 inches and 5.3 pounds.

As I said, I am impressed. I think I may need to see one of these in person.

Grand Lodge

I'm not sure anything is larger than Talislanta 4th Edition... or "Big Blue" as it's known to fans. It's also probably one of the best looking books as well.


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FATAL has 977 pages. 977 pages of sheer "holy **** I can't believe someone actually wrote this."


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Doesn't beat Tome and Tsar, but Ptolus was 670 pages, also bigger than Hero.


LazarX wrote:
I'm not sure anything is larger than Talislanta 4th Edition... or "Big Blue" as it's known to fans. It's also probably one of the best looking books as well.

It's only 502 pages.

A mere babe. :)


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chaoseffect wrote:
FATAL has 977 pages. 977 pages of sheer "holy **** I can't believe someone actually wrote this."

I'm not sure FATAL ever counts for anything, ever, on account of the fact it's one of the worst written things ever. About 400 of those pages are tables, if I remember from the brief once over I gave it before trying, forever, to forget it again.


Distant Scholar wrote:
Those are bigger than HERO System Fifth Edition Revised? I am impressed.

If OBS is accurate, that's not even the biggest edition of HERO.

Hero System 5th Edition, Revised is 592 pages.
HERO System 6th Edition - Complete Library is 784 pages. And Slumbering Tsar has both beat by a lot, at 952 pages.


Northlands Kickstarter is live!

Scarab Sages

"This book has an estimated page count of 800-900 pages (this will vary depending on the number of stretch goals reached), and will be library bound, for years of use."

estimate it does a standard 2d6+6 damage (bludgeoning)


I bet the Northlands nuclear edition is going to win the "heaviest of all time" category.


When you employee a blacksmith to make the book covers, you know you've stepped into an alternate reality from which there is no return.


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chaoseffect wrote:
FATAL has 977 pages. 977 pages of sheer "holy **** I can't believe someone actually wrote this."

We don't talk about FATAL.

I ran a game, once, on a dare. We don't talk about that game anymore.


Distant Scholar wrote:
Bill Webb wrote:
937 on Tsar

amazon.com lists Hero System 5th Edition (revised) as 11 x 8.5 x 1.7 inches and 4.1 pounds.

It lists The Slumbering Tsar Saga as 11.4 x 8.9 x 1.9 inches and 5.3 pounds.

As I said, I am impressed. I think I may need to see one of these in person.

In the left-hand side of this picture are physical copies of Slumbering Tsar. There are other FGG and Paizo products on this table for size comparisons:

http://i.imgur.com/hebl5eQ.jpg?1


Here.

FIFY

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