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Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MeepoTheMighty" data-source="post: 383309" data-attributes="member: 3216">I would like to see a 1 to 10 rating on a number of different aspects of the product.   For instance, Fluff:  7/10Crunch:  9/10Art:  3/10Layout:  9/10Cartography:  3/10Editing: 8/10Value: 6/10The "Fluff" would cover the concept behind the product, the writing style, and the overall feel evoked by the text.  It would be a measure of how inspiring the plot devices are, or how solid the story behind an adventure is.The "Crunch" section would focus on things like rules balance, proper statting of NPCs, and the mechanical represantations of the fluff.  How well do the rules presented support a concept or idea?  How consistent are they with accepted d20 conventions?Art would obviously rate the interior and exterior art, both on its artistic merits and in relation to the subject matter.Layout would cover things like use of margins, whitespace, fonts, and shading.  How readable is the book?  Does it make your head hurt just to look at it?Cartography is self-explanatory for products which have maps.Editing would rate the ability of the publishers to go over their texts with a fine-toothed comb, looking for rules discrepancies or obvious misspellings or omissions.Value would be a gut reaction of "was it worth what I paid for it?"These could either be averaged to find a composite score, or given as a total # of points.   Maybe a few other categories could be added to make it a clean 100 point scale.</blockquote>

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