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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grraf" data-source="post: 308139" data-attributes="member: 3791">Reviews are the killer app of EnWorld.All of my buying purchases  are heavily informed by reviews both at EnWorld and occasionally from other sites (Ken Hite,  MC , etc.)I LOVE people who point out rules problems. Honestly they are a giant pain the ass. I bought Secret College of Necro recently for the rules but I've found that the setting is much more useful. The inability of a signifcant chunk of people to playtest or balance their products at all confuses me.Which brings me to one more point: The Tradgety of the loyal fan reveiwer:Reivews that just repeat what's in the book are a waste. You can tell whats in the book by going to the website of the company. I skim to get to the analysis, its the only reason to really read a review. If I want an ad I can go to a companies site.Bad reviews are the best: those are usually the only ones that actually go into depth. Unfortunately there are a bunch of terrible products out there with one or two positive fan reviews.There's a strong tendancy for people to post positive bland reviews.  Of course given the way some writers react when people post non-positive reviews I'm not surprised.<<a href="http://www.enworld.org/d20reviews.asp?sub=yes&where=active&reviewer=GameWyrd&product=hhfdwa" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/d20reviews.asp?sub=yes&where=active&reviewer=GameWyrd&product=hhfdwa</a>>(I actually think that its great that the writers of prodcuts get on the review to explain their reasoning and methodology.)</blockquote>

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