Books Bought on Reviews/Recommendations?

[Pants]

Yep, I have, though usually I know wat I want to buy before the book is out:
But reviews have talked me into purchasing the following:
- Iron Kingdom's Character Guide
- Complete Arcane
- Frostburn
- Sharn: City of Towers
- Monster's Handbook
- Book of Fiends

 

[monkeynova]

Apropos of nothing...

Totally un-related to fantasy gaming, but I picked up Ex Machina based on the reviews here. I'm quite happy with the purchase.

Frostburn looks interesting, but I'm not sure if I want to pick it up yet...and I haven't seen the EN World chatter on the subject. :\

 

[Jacen]

Really too many to count. Spend something like 500 bucks to pdfs at rpgnow during two years and most of them because good review at EN-World. Not to count all book bought from amazon or local gaming store due to reviews.

All midnight products I own. I wouldn't bought any without really good review. Now I am only missing gaming group using it. Can't get it al =).

But yes - EN-world review affects to me. It ireview sucks I might check it at local store (if it ever comes here). Good review and I might order it without seeing. Nowadays have to look after what I am buying - there aren't a infinte amount of money to spend for RPG stuff =/.

 

[Breakdaddy]

Wow, I had forgotten all about the Tact-Tiles discussions on here. I bought a set of these gems based on the aforementioned discussions and I have been infinitely pleased with this purchase. These are the highest use items in my gaming sessions.

 

[pogre]

Print & PDF:
Magical Medieval Society
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PDFs:
Buy the Numbers


One that I bought based on the reviews but regretted was The World's Largest Dungeon. I had slightly different expectations for the product so it's not a slam against it as a product - just for my campaign purposes: I was hoping to disect it for a few dungeon crawls and it is not as adaptable as I thought it might be.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Oh boy, I can't even begin to list the book sthat I bought based on either discussions here or the reviews. Most I've been very happy with, although there have been a few that I didn't like. But overall, I've definitly gotten great advice and help finding the books I'm looking for. I rarely make a rpg purchase without looking here for reviews or a discussion about the books I want to buy. Often, just reading the discussions makes me add a book to my Want List. It got to the point that I just stuck it on my desktop instead of keeping it in a folder I was adding things to it so often...

 

[Buttercup]

Too many to count, but off the top of my head:

• Magical Medieval Society
• Frost & Fur
• Midnight
• Dawnforge
• Toolbox
• Grim Tales
• Monsternomicon
• Book of the Righteous
• Redhurst
• Testament
• Lost City of Barakus

 

[Buttercup]

Wow, I had forgotten all about the Tact-Tiles discussions on here. I bought a set of these gems based on the aforementioned discussions and I have been infinitely pleased with this purchase. These are the highest use items in my gaming sessions.

How could I have forgotten these? Love them, love them, love them! Now that I've been using them for a few months, I can't imagine how I ever got along without them. http://www.bc-products.net/

 

[Sir Elton]

Like so much entertainment, I usually buy what has good ideas based on the blurb on the cover. But if you want to know something I bought based on a review here . . .

Well, I didn't really buy anything based on reviews, since I usually bought stuff for critique anyway! As much as I would like to do reviews for Enworld, my sign-on is messed up and I can't do them.

I've got about 200 products that I need to do reviews on. Both d20 and non-d20. But alas, I really don't want to do it as heavily as I did.

 

[Kaji]

As some have already mentioned, I screen almost every purchase here first, unless I already trust the quality of the company (Ronin Arts, for example, has yet to disappoint me).

Books that were not at all on my radar that I bought were:

Denizens of Avadnu (Excellent book, thanks for the sale!)
Silverthornes Book of Templates Deluxe (also very good and interesting)
Bits of Darkness
Airships, by Bastion Press (Limited, but cool)
and last but not least, the reviews for Lords of Darkness, Liches and Lords of Darkness: Vampires turned me on to these EXCELLENT products from Bottled Imp Games. Sadly, this company has been in the process of withdrawing from the market, because it's great stuff. I'm very much hoping that Stuart will release Lords of Darkness:Zombies as a .pdf, seeing as how I prefer electronic over paper.