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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jollyninja" data-source="post: 308082" data-attributes="member: 3208">free products? if only my opinion was respected! note: if you send me free stuff i'll plaster every board i find with my opinion every time it's mentioned in as well thought out a manner as i am capable. as for other people's reviews, what i look for is a summary of the contents and a decent description of the ratio of mechanics to setting specific information. also a specific problem with the printing of the book if problematic enough to mention more then once in a review can put me off. i do not pay any attention to the reviewers opinion on the product as a whole but on specific parts and only then if they go into a little depth. for example if you tell us that the prestige classes in a certian book suck i will pay little attention to that. if you say that you did not like them because they are really setting specific and would require alot of work to fit into a homebrewed setting. then you have given me something worth knowing. high average reviews mean nothing to me, it's all about specifics. also most people seem to do a review after only one or two read through's without using it in a single session, so the opinions are a little premature in my opinion. as a personal example, my expectations for song and silence were way to high and my idea of what that book should have been were far different then the authors. after a couple of read throughs i would have roasted it as the worst dnd book in dnd's long history. i still do not like it all that much but it is not nearly so bad as i might have made it out to be shortly after spend(waste cough....)ing my money.</blockquote>

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