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<blockquote data-quote="Windjammer" data-source="post: 8035780" data-attributes="member: 60075">This is actually where I think the product fails hardest. Even by Judges Guild Ready Ref standards, there's so much missed opportunity here to re-create a genuine throw-back to retro design it's painful. See below for what I concretely mean.Gabor &quot;Melan&quot; Lux wrote <a href="http://beyondfomalhaut.blogspot.com/2020/05/broken-castle-reviewbroken-castle-2019.html" target="_blank">a wonderful review</a> of Gene Weigel's book; his review came down on exactly that note. Because of my great respect for Melan as a writer and reviewer (and I do think Weigel is a significant figure in our hobby, controversies of old aside), I gave the product a more serious look myself. I found I disliked it so much visually I couldn't engage it productively. So I took the published preview and reformatted it for my own reading pleasure. Results see below. This took about 2 hours, and started with a font choices etc. all selected for the OSR retro effect. This can be done very quickly and takes not much effort. The fact that the author didn't go through this process themselves means they're either incapable or unwilling to do it. Because it's Gene Weigel, I think there's a certain grunge attitude in his product, and I like that a lot as such - just not enough to read his product page by page.<img src="https://i.ibb.co/brFSPNt/Screen-Shot-2020-07-12-at-8-41-03-PM.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://i.ibb.co/XZDwWNC/Screen-Shot-2020-07-12-at-8-41-15-PM.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Windjammer, post: 8035780, member: 60075"] This is actually where I think the product fails hardest. Even by Judges Guild Ready Ref standards, there's so much missed opportunity here to re-create a genuine throw-back to retro design it's painful. See below for what I concretely mean. Gabor "Melan" Lux wrote [URL='http://beyondfomalhaut.blogspot.com/2020/05/broken-castle-reviewbroken-castle-2019.html']a wonderful review[/URL] of Gene Weigel's book; his review came down on exactly that note. Because of my great respect for Melan as a writer and reviewer (and I do think Weigel is a significant figure in our hobby, controversies of old aside), I gave the product a more serious look myself. I found I disliked it so much visually I couldn't engage it productively. So I took the published preview and reformatted it for my own reading pleasure. Results see below. This took about 2 hours, and started with a font choices etc. all selected for the OSR retro effect. This can be done very quickly and takes not much effort. The fact that the author didn't go through this process themselves means they're either incapable or unwilling to do it. Because it's Gene Weigel, I think there's a certain grunge attitude in his product, and I like that a lot as such - just not enough to read his product page by page. [IMG]https://i.ibb.co/brFSPNt/Screen-Shot-2020-07-12-at-8-41-03-PM.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.ibb.co/XZDwWNC/Screen-Shot-2020-07-12-at-8-41-15-PM.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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