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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5773642" data-attributes="member: 8461">The issue there is how one approaches reviewing, both in terms of focus and scoring.For the focus of the review, it's easy to become locked in a mindset of &quot;it's good, but here's a detailed list of what's wrong with it,&quot; which I admittedly still slip into more than I like. It basically assumes that the purpose of the review is to point out something's failings, and explain what detracts from some mythical idea of a perfect product.Likewise, the scoring issue is an attempt to add some objective metric that's ultimately going to be futile, since there's no consensus on what the gradations mean anyway. Some people hold that a 3/5, for example, means the product is average, or decent, while others hold that something with that score has some serious flaws that are roughly equal to its strengths.If my review and my score seem contradictory, then I did a bad job describing why I scored it the way I did. I did like the book, I just thought its execution wasn't perfect; I still applaud it for trying to present something beyond 20th level in Pathfinder, and I think it had some good ideas and generally good execution. It's not perfect, but (as I'm sure you know) when you venture into one of the most broken parts of the system, that's inevitable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 5773642, member: 8461"] The issue there is how one approaches reviewing, both in terms of focus and scoring. For the focus of the review, it's easy to become locked in a mindset of "it's good, but here's a detailed list of what's wrong with it," which I admittedly still slip into more than I like. It basically assumes that the purpose of the review is to point out something's failings, and explain what detracts from some mythical idea of a perfect product. Likewise, the scoring issue is an attempt to add some objective metric that's ultimately going to be futile, since there's no consensus on what the gradations mean anyway. Some people hold that a 3/5, for example, means the product is average, or decent, while others hold that something with that score has some serious flaws that are roughly equal to its strengths. If my review and my score seem contradictory, then I did a bad job describing why I scored it the way I did. I did like the book, I just thought its execution wasn't perfect; I still applaud it for trying to present something beyond 20th level in Pathfinder, and I think it had some good ideas and generally good execution. It's not perfect, but (as I'm sure you know) when you venture into one of the most broken parts of the system, that's inevitable. [/QUOTE]

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