Book bindings

[Trevor Gulliver]

To follow-up, I posted in the customer service thread and received a response.

[Kagerage]

sadly my binding is now breaking too :(

[Hilnus]

ArtimisEntrari81 wrote:

I must say I love the core rulebook. The images are outstanding, the rules are simple yet flexible and the game itself is outstanding. I am a member of the Starfinder Facebook page as well and have found out there is a problem with the bindings of the core rulebooks. It seems the inside binding (the soft white one) becomes unglued from the pages. Then outside hard cover binding is fine but I and others are worried about pages falling out and the books falling apart. Has anyone addressed this issue? If so can I be pointed to the proper thread, if not, is there anything that can be done for it?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you

How many of you got the core rules book from Gen Con?

[Marco Massoudi]

Is there any word from when on only the second printings are sold/distributed?

Is there a check going on in the warehouse which Starfinder CRBs are defective and which are not?

All issues which got delivered with the first shipment to my local flagstore were defective and made creaking sounds when being opened.

I have a real problem with accepting Starfinder as a solid new system, because not only a seemingly large percentage of the CRB first printing is defective, but also because both flip-mats feature a faulty design and, to me at least, the starship pawns are not fitting inside one hex is a problem.

I bought a lot of Battlefleet Gothic & Firestorm Armada miniatures from ebay and these are great, not only do the tiny, small and medium ships fit inside a hex, the larger starships (which don´t fit inside one hex either) are based on a longer flight stand and don´t interfere with smaller ones flying right beside (and under) them.

I would have rather bought the official Starfinder minis (and very probably still will), as they seem to be designed the same, but the painted ones will be available ETA november, if not later.

Personally i think the release of the Starfinder RPG was rushed a little to be in time for GenCon 50, a decision i can understand from a business standpoint, but the lack of quality in 3.5 of the initial 8 starting products (the creature pawns are fine) is more than a little unfortunate and makes me enjoy the game a lot less.

[Kvetchus]

Kvetchus wrote:

I've had my core book for a couple weeks now, and so far, it's withstood the rigors of learning the new rules well so far and the binding seems pretty solid.

Better than those POS D&D 5E books I probably won't be using for a long time to come now... My group had 5 PHBs and ALL of them, every single one, fell apart within the first month or two along with one of the two DMGs. Paizo sure could teach WotC a thing or two.. or three. or five.

Sad to report - my binding is starting to go now. It hasn't actually separated yet, but there's right near the middle there's a spot (so happens, it's the cover page of the starship section) is starting to separate a bit. Still - lasted longer than the crappy D&D 5E PHB.