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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 866269" data-attributes="member: 172">Re: Re: smileyed if you do, smileyed if you don'tActually, Monte hasn't done many reviews lately, so &quot;all the time&quot; may be a bit of a reach.That said, Monte isn't the only designer to review. Consider that Steven Creech is one of the lead reviewers with d20 magazine rack, and that Jeff Ibach of DMHaven has contributed to some AEG fantasy products. Reviewers like Justin Bacon grew into designers.This isn't really all that surprising. Well heeled reviewers and designers have a lot of the same talents.But this is not without problems. Conflict of interest is a constant bugbear. If you design games, are you really the one who should be critiquing your competitors? Some keep their competitive feelings in check. Some don't.At any rate, an obvious and blatant conflict of interest is reviewing a product you wrote or playtested. Those aren't reviews. Those are promotions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 866269, member: 172"] [b]Re: Re: smileyed if you do, smileyed if you don't[/b] Actually, Monte hasn't done many reviews lately, so "all the time" may be a bit of a reach. That said, Monte isn't the only designer to review. Consider that Steven Creech is one of the lead reviewers with d20 magazine rack, and that Jeff Ibach of DMHaven has contributed to some AEG fantasy products. Reviewers like Justin Bacon grew into designers. This isn't really all that surprising. Well heeled reviewers and designers have a lot of the same talents. But this is not without problems. Conflict of interest is a constant bugbear. If you design games, are you really the one who should be critiquing your competitors? Some keep their competitive feelings in check. Some don't. At any rate, an obvious and blatant conflict of interest is reviewing a product you wrote or playtested. Those aren't reviews. Those are promotions. [/QUOTE]

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