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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 3321083" data-attributes="member: 232">I guess I'll be the first to tackle these  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />1) Price is a factor but it is one of the last and least important factors.  Usually when compairing two books they have to be really close for me to have price make the difference.  There are the rare exceptions for something that is unusually cheap or unusually expensive though.  2) I don't have a favorite system, but I'm still looking for one.  There are systems I like better then others.  Some systems just work better and are easier to understand then other systems.  Other times the system just does not do what the game is designed to do.  But my like or dislike of a system rarely makes me bias towards or against a game.    It can be hard and sometimes I have to set the book aside and clear my head for a few days to do it, but I really try to give each book a blank slate when I start to read it.  3) I'm a fan of PDFs.  I review a lot and read even more.  But they are at a disadvantage but that has shrunk in the past few years.4) Mutants.  5) I perfer concepts to mechanics.  Concepts are what I build my own games on and mechanics are just how we do it.  But errors in either are going to be seen as faults of the submission.  In the past few years we have gotten more good books then bad so it is important to be a little picky and just nominate the very best.  6) As much as I hate to say it, I have plenty of free time to be a Judge.  I've taken vacation days to get it all done before.  The first year I did this it basically costy me my girlfriend at the time (it was going to end anyway it just happened sooner because I was a Judge).   I'm a single guy with family and friends that understand there will be many weeks I'm not going to have time to talk to them.  7) I give most of it all away.  My friends each get a few books or a small pile.  I give some away at Gamedays and at Gen Con for people that help us there.  I give some to Denise to help raise money to cover the costs.  The rest gets placed on selves and evtually traded away or kept until I can find a good home for them.8) later, since it is not this year I don't have to worry about it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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