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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3925862" data-attributes="member: 18280">And, oddly enough, one has to wonder just how many potential new gamers will read that book, flip through a 4e PHB, and discover that the options they enjoyed reading about in the book have little or nothing to do with what is in the game.Or was the book written from a 4e standpoint?Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress?&nbsp; Cool...can I make a sorceress?&nbsp; No.This whole character creation thing....still works as a primer, right?&nbsp; No.Wait a minute, though, Shelly explains how spells work.&nbsp; That's still correct, right?&nbsp;&nbsp; No.Charms?&nbsp; No.Familiars?&nbsp; We're still not sure about that.Okay, though, surely &quot;elf&quot; means the same thing?&nbsp; No.Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress may be a great idea, marketing-wise, and might be a great read.&nbsp; OTOH, as a means to reach out to potential new gamers, it is poorly timed.&nbsp; Had this book come out a year earlier.....or come out later, with 4e crunch, it might have been better.&nbsp; (Again, marketing-wise, not lit-wise.)RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 3925862, member: 18280"] And, oddly enough, one has to wonder just how many potential new gamers will read that book, flip through a 4e PHB, and discover that the options they enjoyed reading about in the book have little or nothing to do with what is in the game. Or was the book written from a 4e standpoint? [i]Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress[/i]? Cool...can I make a sorceress? No. This whole character creation thing....still works as a primer, right? No. Wait a minute, though, Shelly explains how spells work. That's still correct, right? No. Charms? No. Familiars? We're still not sure about that. Okay, though, surely "elf" means the same thing? No. [i]Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress[/i] may be a great idea, marketing-wise, and might be a great read. OTOH, as a means to reach out to potential new gamers, it is poorly timed. Had this book come out a year earlier.....or come out later, with 4e crunch, it might have been better. (Again, marketing-wise, not lit-wise.) RC [/QUOTE]

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