Monsters & Treasures digest. is this real

[londonsmee]

Just bought a copy and wondering is this really quality and control from Troll lord. or is it a bad print copy.

Bad graduation from black and white, low print conversion of images. Looks like bad bleed too.

Is this correct copy.

What you think .

[Treebore]

One of the Trolls would have to tell you about this one. I never bought those digest books.

[Omote]

I haven't looked at my digest books in over a year. I can't remember any problems that stuck out in my mind, but they were undoubtedly all in B&W. I liked them enough to use them a few times, but the bindings were a bit too fragile to open all the way up and lay flat. That's why I stayed with the standard-sized versions.

~O

[londonsmee]

Have spoken to a friend who also has a copy, and his is as bad. Its not really that good a presentation. I realise its a digest but come on it's 2000's not 1970 sort some quality control out.

Happy gamming

[seskis281]

Weird - other than being very small print and being of delicate binding as Omote notes, mine are much cleaner and sharper than what you show.... but these were a limited run... I found the limited run "flipbook" the most useful in running games. These digests are collectors for me, next to my C&C white box.

[kreider204]

I know Steve tried to do some in-house printing at one point, and wasn't terribly happy with the results. I had one of the early (full-sized) CKGs, and it looked like the OP's M&T. The outsourced printing (including my newer copy of the CKG) is much, much better.

[Omote]

I'm paging through my digest-sized M&T here right now, and the pages you give examples of above, I looked at in particular. In my version, they are crisp and clean. The only thing that I noticed is that on the various tables in the main treasure section is that the color separation between the rows are dark gray, light gray, dark gray. I see no bleed through though. I fully thought that I would see some problems you mention assuming the digest-sized books were of lower quality. I think the printing and paper is lower quality than the actual hardcover books, but not enough to say it's flawed. In fact, at least in the copy I am looking at, the changes to paper and perhaps black density were on purpose. Sorry to hear about your copy.

~O