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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scarogoth" data-source="post: 623521" data-attributes="member: 3507">Know what you mean!Well, I'm a Southerner, too, but of the British variety, though I totally agree with this comment. When I first joined these boards, I thought it would be great to become a full-time reviewer and churn them out like SC/Psion/GameWyrd, etc. whoever...And then I discovered I couldn't do it. It wasn't that I couldn't be critical -- that wasn't the problem -- but I was loathe to write down anything that might upset somebody, be they artist, author or publisher -- big boy, or small-time operation.So I decided not to do it. Rather than be a "reviewer" I would be a "recommender" only. Anything that I felt was a really worthwhile purchase I would quite happily write about -- even be a little bit critical if I felt it needed it. I imagine that quite a few other sporadic posters feel the same as me. Unfortunately, since I started work full-time in the industry, I've not had a chance to write nearly as many as I'd ever intended, and also because of my job, I'm nervous about saying anything in case it opens up a "pot calling the kettle black" thing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I do know what you mean about being swayed by the reviews though. I took one look at the plethora of stonkingly high ones for the Manual of Planes, and without really reading them, just decided that this obviously had to be a "must" purchase, almost one of the core rulebooks, if you like.But I didn't like. I didn't like at all. It was stupid, stupid, stupid. Astral Color Pools? Worlds on giant cogs, like something out of MYST... Elysium looking like a set of stacked Bonsai plants with neverending waterfalls. All totally useless to me, and I really felt I should write a review to say so. Just like you did. But I just didn't have the heart, nor the nerve to take it back. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Unfortunately, I didn't get urged to do so by the noble folks on this board -- I'm glad they did so for you. You review was balanced, thoughtful and very useful. Thank you.</blockquote>

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