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<blockquote data-quote="Negative Zero" data-source="post: 1065009" data-attributes="member: 3794">a lot of this seems very strange to me. most of what is being touted as &quot;wrong&quot; with the book seems merely an issue of taste. you don't like the lack of colour, you don't like the art, you don't like the layout. all of these are simply matters of preference. they are not something &quot;wrong.&quot; art, layout and the like is subjective, and as such cannot be counted as a flaw.&nbsp; state that you don't like it, but you can't call an artistic style &quot;wrong.&quot; well you can, but it just makes you sound petty, which i'm assuming is not what you're going for.while i'm on the subect, saying that you think an RPG book is worthless because of astetics, is kind of silly, IMO. does the art (or lack thereof) somehow impact the use relevance of the writing and the game mechanics introduced? no it most certainly does not. and yes i can appreciate the point about inspiration, however there are no shortages of inspiration in the world, if you open your eyes. griping that they're not in this ONE book, seems childish.i too initially balked at the inclusion of all the reprinted PHB material, until i stood back and tried to apply merit to the book as a stand alone product. in that capacity, the inclusions are great. i think that's what trips a lot of people up about this product; they keep trying to assume that it's something that it's not.as for the races issue, i don't get what all the uproar is about on this. (and no i wasn't grabbed by them either.) they're just different to what's established, and different usually takes a while to get used to.to close, i'm not a fanboy. the book does have its flaws. they jsut aren't as garrish as some people seem hellbent on trying to insist.~NegZ</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Negative Zero, post: 1065009, member: 3794"] a lot of this seems very strange to me. most of what is being touted as "wrong" with the book seems merely an issue of taste. you don't like the lack of colour, you don't like the art, you don't like the layout. all of these are simply matters of preference. they are not something "wrong." art, layout and the like is subjective, and as such cannot be counted as a flaw. state that you don't like it, but you can't call an artistic style "wrong." well you can, but it just makes you sound petty, which i'm assuming is not what you're going for. while i'm on the subect, saying that you think an RPG book is worthless because of astetics, is kind of silly, IMO. does the art (or lack thereof) somehow impact the use relevance of the writing and the game mechanics introduced? no it most certainly does not. and yes i can appreciate the point about inspiration, however there are no shortages of inspiration in the world, if you open your eyes. griping that they're not in this ONE book, seems childish. i too initially balked at the inclusion of all the reprinted PHB material, until i stood back and tried to apply merit to the book as a stand alone product. in that capacity, the inclusions are great. i think that's what trips a lot of people up about this product; they keep trying to assume that it's something that it's not. as for the races issue, i don't get what all the uproar is about on this. (and no i wasn't grabbed by them either.) they're just different to what's established, and different usually takes a while to get used to. to close, i'm not a fanboy. the book does have its flaws. they jsut aren't as garrish as some people seem hellbent on trying to insist. ~NegZ [/QUOTE]

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