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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smeelbo" data-source="post: 4991389" data-attributes="member: 81898">As customers, it is our right to demand better!As other posters in this thread have pointed out, Iron Heroes is incomplete, flawed, and does not perform as advertised. While full of clever ideas, Mearls in general does not finish his work having no incentive to do so once his contracted number of words have been produced. In contrast, consider Monte Cooke, and in particular Ptolus. THAT was a polished piece of work. I have every right to be harshly critical of Mike Mearls: he is a repeated disappointment. I am speaking not simply as a gamer, but as a buyer for game stores. It's frustrating to bring in material for my customers that appears so promising, but which is in fact not as advertised. I've sold close to a thousand different role-playing titles over the years, and own hundreds of those myself. I've come to know a variety of writers to a greater or lesser degree, and I contend that my assertion about Mearls, that he puts most of his effort into the easy part, filling the word count, for which he is paid, and puts minimal effort into editing, testing, revising, and so on, is a reasonable characterization of his work. He is very clever fellow, and has a lot of great ideas, but I'd not count on him for finished work. As customers, as purchasers of roleplaying materials, we have every right to call someone on doing a half-assed job. As a store buyer, I will speak with dollars. In this case of Mearls, it will mean examing his work more closely in the future before I buy for myself, or recommend to my customers. Smeelbo</blockquote>

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