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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tom Strickland" data-source="post: 6279418" data-attributes="member: 6753119">Two things I thought about while following this thread further:1. In the literature course in high school, one foreign student that also happened to hold the highest power-gamer rating in our lunchtime D&D group confided one time that he always first read the last page of any assigned novels: Beowulf, The Once and Future King, Crime and Punishment, etc. The rest of us asked why, and in the absence of any compelling appeal, shrugged and continued to read from the beginning. Obviously I tried reading the last pages of some unread sci-fi/fantasy novels at the library but was personally unimpressed by the approach and desisted thereafter. 2. Sometimes I wonder when reading the comments where the writers fall along some  [ Preview <---> Spoiler ]  continuum. I like watching movie trailers--considering them to be "previews"--and have not really found them to ruin a movie-watching experience. The official ones likely have formulas to follow to avoid the majority of controversy. In contrast, written info on forums can definitely reveal explicit plot points and I do appreciate when there are warnings and hidden text devices used.</blockquote>