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<blockquote data-quote="Olive" data-source="post: 1443053" data-attributes="member: 1297"><p>Hey, I hate Vance's writing (and EEG's) but like alot of the ideas and love the idea of wierd wizards. Mostly I'm concerned (no offence!) about the mechanics of it, so that's what I'll be looking for in a review. I don't want a book that will give me ideas that I then have to work through myself. I want a book with cool ideas (like yours certainly will have) and the mechanics for me to bring it into play.</p><p></p><p>The staff reviewers here at ENWorld are pretty open-minded and even handed in my experience, so I think either Psion of JoeGKushner would be great people to have a look at it for you. I have no idea what those two think of the whole Vancian thing, but you could always ask them i guess?</p><p></p><p>In terms of a preview, that's another thing that goes a long way to making me interested in a book! I guess a smatering of the spells (say three or four) and the magic items (one or two?) would be fantastic! Just to get an idea of how the design philosophy behind the book works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olive, post: 1443053, member: 1297"] Hey, I hate Vance's writing (and EEG's) but like alot of the ideas and love the idea of wierd wizards. Mostly I'm concerned (no offence!) about the mechanics of it, so that's what I'll be looking for in a review. I don't want a book that will give me ideas that I then have to work through myself. I want a book with cool ideas (like yours certainly will have) and the mechanics for me to bring it into play. The staff reviewers here at ENWorld are pretty open-minded and even handed in my experience, so I think either Psion of JoeGKushner would be great people to have a look at it for you. I have no idea what those two think of the whole Vancian thing, but you could always ask them i guess? In terms of a preview, that's another thing that goes a long way to making me interested in a book! I guess a smatering of the spells (say three or four) and the magic items (one or two?) would be fantastic! Just to get an idea of how the design philosophy behind the book works. [/QUOTE]
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