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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mystic Eye" data-source="post: 143898" data-attributes="member: 711">We have a policy that none of our team, especially those that worked on a specific project , post any sort of review anywhere on our books. If they do, they must announce the affiliation. As an example, we have recently contracted with Jeff Ibach to do some mechanics/ conent editing. He has reviewed many of our products previously without bias but we liked his stuff so we contracted him last month. He now has his new affiliation with us noted at his site.Here at EN World, we have a relationship (again, very new) with natural 20 press and Russ. Russ and I agreed that he will no longer personally review our products here at EN World.I can't speak for the whole team but I NEVER post reviews on ANY products as I do feel bias. I will, in message boards, etc give my opinion of a product  ( I commented on Strongholds for instance-I really liked it) I like but will rarely say anything bad. I figure, as a publisher, if I have nothing good to say about a book(which is very rare, all products have some value IMHO) then say nothing. Since I am not a reviewer  but a publisher I figure that is the right thing to do. To my knowledge, I have not seen any team members post a review of a product they worked on of ours, or for that matter, any of our products, so I think they are sticking to the unofficial rule. IF they choose to I would ask them to announce their affiliation. Also, like others have noted here, most of us have something in our tag line that identifies us. Expecially me, look at the blinking eye.I don't know about everyone but that is our policy and I try my best to enforce it. All my fellow publishers ( and there team) all appear to be highly ehtical so I doubt they would intentionally slant reviews without saying who they are.It is a shame that one person was not honest ( I have no idea who this is or what the reference is so I am not accusing anyone, just noting what was said below) but I feel 99% of the folks in the d20 biz are honest and don't need a external ethical policing here.Just my 2 cents.</blockquote>

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