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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D'karr" data-source="post: 161051" data-attributes="member: 336">PriceFirst of all the magazine costs $18 not $20.I happen to use the Internet on a regular basis but I can't take the Internet with me on long trips or to the can for that matter.  In addition, there is a whole world of gamers out there that have no interest or use for the internet.I will always be more comfortable with a hardcopy of material than with an electronic copy.  That said, PDF's are great for those that use them.  However, they are not the end all be all for everyone.I purchased issue one of GF and was impressed.  I used a lot of the information there for ideas to include into my own campaign.  I can say the same for most of the splatbooks.  I never use all the content but there is never a book that doesn't give me some ideas for use.I agree that less reviews would be better, however I found the book to be very good for the price and I didn't have to put up with half of it being absorbed by ad space.People are going to complain about almost everything.  If someone likes color they complain if a book is black-n-white.  If they don't like art they complain if a book has "too much" art and not enough content.  On an on it goes.  Those that complain that they should have gotten the material in the original book or for free on a website are missing the point of how hard it is to keep your product down to a viable page count.Like I said before I found the book to be a very good value and will purchase issue two.  As a matter of fact the book served as great advertising (at least to me) for the Iron Kingdoms campaign from Privateer Press.  So the book does both advertise as well as provide good content.One thing they could do to make the book more appealing would be to make the content more homogeneous.  For example a whole issue on dinosaurs or everything you ever wanted to know about pirates, etc.  If all the d20 publishers that submitted for the issue had a basic idea of what the issue will be about then they can promote their products that deal with that issue.  For example a Seafaring Issue with articles from every publisher that put out a Seafaring book in the last 6 months.  By keeping most of the content related then you get a lot of content on the subject instead of a little bit of content on many subjects.  This of course is probably as hard as herding cats since many d20 publishers don't have similar products.I personally hope that GF can continue to make this product regardless of all the naysayers.</blockquote>

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