Well, here's my two cents worth:

Overall, the AoR Core was what I expected, and it is in the main a decent game.

But, once again, the font is too small and too 'effing LIGHT.

Look, I know the average game demographic is a lot younger and/or has a lot better eyes than I do, but how hard can it really be to make a darker font? I mean, I could even handle the smaller fonts if they would just darken them a little.

I bought the book too, and it's gonna be awfully hard to run a game with it if I cannot READ the verdampt thing....

Come on guys....seriously?

Do I have to pay 100 bucks for a decent document scanner, scan the thing into PDF just so I can read it? I bought a large magnifying glass to see if that would help, and to a degree it did, but trying to balance a big loup and a 400+ page hardcover when you don't have a table to lay it on all the time is a royal pain in the ass.

FFG, you guys can fix this going forward. Would you please?

I'm on my way to 50 and understand your pain. That being said, I don't think that it is so bad. If they increased the font a couple steps, the page count could easily hit 600. The book is already on its limit I think for page count.

I opened up some other RPG books for comparison. A Traveller RPG book from Mongoose lying nearby is actually more difficult to read. A Pathfinder book I opened has smaller text then AoR, but it's slightly thicker. By thicker, I mean a slight bolding. I don't think AoR text is light, just less bold (thinner lines) then others, making it appear lighter.

So, I don't think they need to increase the font size. To the other RPGs I compared it to it is just as large or larger. They might benefit however by using a slightly bolder font. Not completely bold, just somewhere between what it is and full bold.

Corradus do you wear glasses or contacts? Reason I ask if I sit down to read I typically remove my contacts since I'm somewhat nearsighted. With contacts in reading a small font can be difficult but without I'm perfectly fine.

With contacts in reading a small font can be difficult but without I'm perfectly fine.

I feel ya; I'm still a teen, but I'm dreadfully nearsighted, and wearing glasses while reading things up close hurts my head.

I understand your pain as well. I'm mid 40's and have to take my glasses off to read the book, even though they are bifocal.

Not so bad sitting and reading it, but awkward at the table. I think it needs to be slightly bolder or darker.

The 13th Age book is a great example of a perfectly readable rulebook.

Oh Lord, thank God I'm not the only one....

I know there's a lot of people out there who can't duplicate my complaint, but I can't help that. I can't read the dang text of this 70 dollar with the tax game book, and that makes TWO 70 dollar with the tax gamebooks I cant read now. Come ONE you guys at FFG, just make the text darker, that's all you have to do. I can squint.

And to answer your question Sturn, I do wear glasses, I haven't tried that yet. I dunno. I find also that since the pages are coated in a certain gloss, tilting the book to get a better bead doesn't always help because now in addition to micro-font, I have to deal with glare for heaven's sake...

Come on already, this is nutty...