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<blockquote data-quote="John Cooper" data-source="post: 2197277" data-attributes="member: 24255"><p>Largomad: Your views are shared by many. If you look through my past reviews of monster books, you'll note that many of them have comments, like yours, to the effect that I'm wasting the reader's time by focusing so much on stat block errors. (Several were not as politely worded as yours was, by the way.) However, every reviewer comes to a product with his own views on what's important in an RPG book. Some people place full-color artwork very high on the list, or worry about white space and font size and what the price-per-page comes out to be. My own, personal biases put a rather high emphasis on the quality of the proofreading/editing jobs, and of course correct stat blocks are at the absolute pinnacle of my list. While not everyone shares my concerns in these areas, there a few - designated "gearheads," I believe - who like to see the math behind the monster and see how the stats all work together, and are as concerned as I am about the accuracy of the stat blocks. For those people, the "unofficial errata" that I include in my reviews serves a useful purpose, allowing them to fix up the monster stats without waiting for the official errata from the company to be released. Hopefully, my "unofficial errata" might occasionally prevent a TPK from a monster whose AC was off by 10 points or whose erroneous attack bonus made it too powerful for its CR.</p><p></p><p>For those of you uninterested in the "unofficial errata," all I can say is that it shouldn't be that hard to just skim your way past it. I always put my suggested changes to stat blocks in bullet format, so it should be pretty easy to see where I start back in on the normal review verbiage. And, at the far extreme, you can always just decide that my review style just isn't for you and stick to reviews by the others who post here and elsewhere. I won't be offended.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Cooper, post: 2197277, member: 24255"] Largomad: Your views are shared by many. If you look through my past reviews of monster books, you'll note that many of them have comments, like yours, to the effect that I'm wasting the reader's time by focusing so much on stat block errors. (Several were not as politely worded as yours was, by the way.) However, every reviewer comes to a product with his own views on what's important in an RPG book. Some people place full-color artwork very high on the list, or worry about white space and font size and what the price-per-page comes out to be. My own, personal biases put a rather high emphasis on the quality of the proofreading/editing jobs, and of course correct stat blocks are at the absolute pinnacle of my list. While not everyone shares my concerns in these areas, there a few - designated "gearheads," I believe - who like to see the math behind the monster and see how the stats all work together, and are as concerned as I am about the accuracy of the stat blocks. For those people, the "unofficial errata" that I include in my reviews serves a useful purpose, allowing them to fix up the monster stats without waiting for the official errata from the company to be released. Hopefully, my "unofficial errata" might occasionally prevent a TPK from a monster whose AC was off by 10 points or whose erroneous attack bonus made it too powerful for its CR. For those of you uninterested in the "unofficial errata," all I can say is that it shouldn't be that hard to just skim your way past it. I always put my suggested changes to stat blocks in bullet format, so it should be pretty easy to see where I start back in on the normal review verbiage. And, at the far extreme, you can always just decide that my review style just isn't for you and stick to reviews by the others who post here and elsewhere. I won't be offended. [/QUOTE]
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