Wildeybeast
07-11-2011, 03:36 PM
So, my SoM book came this morning and it is shiny and new and exciting. The rules look ovepowed but fun and simple, some nice new artwork, everything is hunky dory. Then I sat down to read it this evening and realised GW had made a mega balls-up. The cover is the most stupidly designed thing I have seen in a long time. For those who don't have it, here is a picture http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat640009a&prodId=prod1250231a
The front cover folds out, to reveal a handy spinner. Great and very useful. Except when you actually want to sit and READ THE BOOK. Then you have no front cover to hold and an A3 sized back cover flopping around all over the place, getting in the way and making the damned thing rather difficult to hold. Clearly designers at GW only use their books as handy gaming reference charts, and not for their original purpose of BEING READ. I'm probably griping over a relatively minor thing here, but when they have made what is otherwise a great book, I can't believe that no one got hold of the finished product before printing and went ' hang on, this thing is bloody awkward to hold'. Why not just have the spinner inside the front cover which opens normally, rather than this crazy, double back cover system?
The front cover folds out, to reveal a handy spinner. Great and very useful. Except when you actually want to sit and READ THE BOOK. Then you have no front cover to hold and an A3 sized back cover flopping around all over the place, getting in the way and making the damned thing rather difficult to hold. Clearly designers at GW only use their books as handy gaming reference charts, and not for their original purpose of BEING READ. I'm probably griping over a relatively minor thing here, but when they have made what is otherwise a great book, I can't believe that no one got hold of the finished product before printing and went ' hang on, this thing is bloody awkward to hold'. Why not just have the spinner inside the front cover which opens normally, rather than this crazy, double back cover system?