"Non-mint"

[Drawdy]

What does this mean? Will all the pages be there? Is it just a bit of wear & tear or are we talking huge rips and/or somebody dumped their coffee on it?

[Jonathan Morgantini]

If it's destroyed like that we wouldnt sell it. This might be wear and tear, a dog ear or two, maybe some indents on the front cover. But all the pages should be there and nothing should be unreadable.

[Steve Geddes]

Drawdy wrote:

What does this mean? Will all the pages be there? Is it just a bit of wear & tear or are we talking huge rips and/or somebody dumped their coffee on it?

I’ve bought many non mint items over the years and they have very high standards. Some I couldn’t even tell what the problem was.

The worst I ever got was a kind of dinged corner - like it had been dropped on the corner. The pages has a 5mm crease in the upper right corner and that was it.

I definitely recommend grabbing them - I filled out some gaps that way and it’s sometimes both out of print books and cheaper than originally priced.

[Dancing Wind]

Drawdy wrote:

What does this mean? Will all the pages be there? Is it just a bit of wear & tear or are we talking huge rips and/or somebody dumped their coffee on it?

I always buy non-mint if they are available.

The quality difference is often indiscernable. I've examined things that were 'non mint' and haven't been able to see what the flaw was.

Often it's a bent corner on a cover, ar a crimped edge on a map. But nothing that even requires fixing before it's usable. And nothing that my players have ever noticed.

In fact, after a few trips in my GM bag, some of my 'bought new' stuff looks worse than the non-mint that Paizo has shipped me.

Buy with confidence. If you think something is so damaged as to be unueasble, you'd be the first person I'd heard of who had that happen.

[Drawdy]

Thank you everyone. It's time to go on a spending spree1