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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tantavalist" data-source="post: 8225580" data-attributes="member: 7030056">While this sounds like a great idea, the fact that MCG is the one doing it kills the concept for me. The fact is, I just no longer have trust in that company to give me a good product in return for my money.This isn't just griping from someone who can't afford Monte's games. This is from someone who bought every Invisible Sun product and loved them because they really did live up to the hype. Great setting, and the system is Cypher 2.0 with everything I liked about that ruleset there and the problems I had with it fixed. Finally, Monte did something right!Aside from the price tag and the fact you have to buy the product twice if you want the pdfs. And how they won't allow people to share anything they made for online play of IS. And... OK, it's still a Monte Cook game. But it's one of the best games I've come across (meaning that of course MCG lock it behind a giant paywall where most gamers will never encounter it).Then they finished the line by releasing The Threshold.This sounded like some sort of Multiverse sourcebook for IS, describing what lay beyond the cluster of realities that IS was based in. What it was in reality was a novella of less than 100,000 words that Monte had written years ago when he first had the idea that became IS. Which was published in the same format as the IS rulebooks and priced the same as well. It's not even a very good novella. At the end of the book were two pages of rules material  describing any magic the main guy had used that wasn't in the other books. And a single page on The Threshold which amounted to: "What lies beyond the Threshold? It's a deep, dark mystery that nobody knows for sure! So you make up whatever you want and it's canon at your table Mr. GM!"Just to rub it in- Invisible Sun has had little coded clues to game material sprinkled through the books throughout the game line. The fans have a community based around decoding them. By the time The Threshold came out they'd cracked most of it. The coded bits here were basically messages anticipating reactions to this and taunting readers for reacting that way. "Why can't he make a proper game book?" and so forth.So no. As far as I'm concerned I'm not buying another Monte Cook game ever again and I would advise against anyone else doing so. They can produce some quality stuff when they put their minds to it, but they can also start believing their own marketing hype and acting like they deserve to make sales and any customer not satisfied is the one with the problem.Still don't regret buying the Black Cube and everything else up to The Threshold. But I'm also never buying MCG products again. Not with how many other options there are these days.</blockquote>

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