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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9111531" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, that's not really true with TT RPGs.There is almost no gaming journalism with TT RPGs except, pretty much ENworld's coverage and Linda Codega's coverage for Kotaku, and the occasional article in videogame-oriented sites. Maybe Bell of Lost Souls, but they tend to be shallow as a puddle.So there's no &quot;well deserved reputation&quot; with hate-quotes &quot;reviews&quot;. That's just simply not true.The problem we do see with community reviewing is that with D&amp;D, 90% of the people who &quot;review&quot; D&amp;D products are hyperfans, and not interested in any kind of serious critique or analysis, usually just in listing all the stuff that's in a book, and maybe saying who it will most appeal to.Community word-of-mouth and discussions can be frustratingly similar to that, with a lot of people who feel the need to be aggressively dismissive towards critiques or analysis of new products, and only interested in litanies of features or &quot;positive discussion&quot; about those products. Neither is of which is necessarily really helpful to actually understanding their value.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9111531, member: 18"] I mean, that's not really true with TT RPGs. There is almost no gaming journalism with TT RPGs except, pretty much ENworld's coverage and Linda Codega's coverage for Kotaku, and the occasional article in videogame-oriented sites. Maybe Bell of Lost Souls, but they tend to be shallow as a puddle. So there's no "well deserved reputation" with hate-quotes "reviews". That's just simply not true. The problem we do see with community reviewing is that with D&D, 90% of the people who "review" D&D products are hyperfans, and not interested in any kind of serious critique or analysis, usually just in listing all the stuff that's in a book, and maybe saying who it will most appeal to. Community word-of-mouth and discussions can be frustratingly similar to that, with a lot of people who feel the need to be aggressively dismissive towards critiques or analysis of new products, and only interested in litanies of features or "positive discussion" about those products. Neither is of which is necessarily really helpful to actually understanding their value. [/QUOTE]

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