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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malladin" data-source="post: 960589" data-attributes="member: 8230">I agree with Joe's last comment (in a general sense).I think it's not only the consumers who get a help from a comparative review.  As a writer/designer it's good to get an idea about what you're doing right or wrong with your product in a way that doesn't more rely on whether the reviewer thinks the general idea of your product is flakey.  I know this is usually a very valid point, but if I wanted to go out and buy a book to help me play my new enchanter character I'm not going to get any use out of a reviewer who thinks the whole idea of a class book for a specialist wizard is pointless.  Likewise for a designer, it allows you to know how your systems and writing compare when jotted up along side people who have similar ideas about what kind of book to write.On another note, when I was looking for a new car earlier this year I bought a magazine that had a comparative road test for the general size/class of car I was interested in.  There were something like 7-8 different models of the clas in question.  The review dealt heavily with three of the cars and gave a brief passing mention to the others in the class, which I think had been reviewed at an earlier point.  This could be done for a RPG comparisson and  take scores from other reviews for the ones you've not got and put it in a little summary at the end (making sure you state that these are other reviewer's comments).cheerio,Ben</blockquote>

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