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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 25415" data-attributes="member: 172">Heh... this debate came up on RPGnet. Some people claim that you cannot make an effective review sans playtesting. Normally I disagree. However in the case of Chaos Magic, I flat out admitted in my review that my concerns about the balance might best be addressed by playtesting. However, I game for myself, and as I already said elsewhere I already have ideas about the nature of primal magic in my game, playtesting of Chaos Magic won't happen by my hand.But even not playtesting, I can see that Bramadan is ignoring some impacts of the damage mechanic.To be honest, I do see one other unintended impact of using hp as a resource: it makes multiclassing chaos mages with classes with more HP more viable than multilcassing wizards and sorcerers. That doesn't bother me though, as I consider multiclass wizards a little too unviable in the system as it stands.That's true... but in cases like this, I beleive moderation is the trend. I don't have Amazons, but I honestly beleive that Sahuagin is the best balanced Slayer's book yet because it is balanced... a good bit of flavor text and background for inspiration, and a good bit of good practical crunchy bits.By that logic, Avalanche's books should be flying off of the shelf.I would guess that it is the subject matter that might have drawn more buyers. I mean some people concern themselves with society of hobgoblins and gnolls. But most don't.But amazons aren't in the MM. There is something new that people can latch onto and add to their game. I think people may perceive it as having more value. And I also think that (beleive it or not) #2 played a role.There are a lot of people who could really live without the works of Boris and the like. I'll admit I have some Royo books... he's just too good to miss. But some of his more lewd stuff makes me wince, too.It's your company, but to me when I buy fantasy artwork, I buy it with my tastes in mind. But when I buy gaming products, I buy it with the gaming material in mind... I find being exposed to tacky artwork as a consequence a little annoying. And I am just here to let you know that there are people like me out there that find the "one bare breasted woman per product" a little gratuitous.</blockquote>

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