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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6371872" data-attributes="member: 1">Chris runs a blog called Gaming Tonic. Sometimes he offers me awesome content because he's secured an interview or somesuch and feels it would get a decent audience here, and that's incredibly kind of him, but I'm not part of that process.  As I understand it, he and a load of bloggers plus press folks were at that event, which was a large press release style event. I think everybody there had to sign an NDA and agree not to leak the news in advance, and some places - like the New York Times - got to do so earlier.Pretty much wrong; WotC doesn't require positive reviews, has never even hinted at such, and I wouldn't deal with a company that did on account of that being unethical. Other companies have done in the past, and I don't deal with them any more.  It's not like a D&D book is hard to acquire or that the allure of a review copy of a book is that enticing! Review copies, I think - I don't get them myself - go out via their PR agency 360-Degree Media, not from WotC itself.Neuroglyph tends to review stuff he likes, as do many reviewers, because it's tough reading a load of stuff you don't like -- and while I pay him to write reviews, I don't pay him enough that the job should become unenjoyable.  Occasionally he'll write a negative review, but generally he's highlighting cool stuff he enjoyed.As I said, you are free to disagree with the review.  You are free to write your own.</blockquote>

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