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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6682804" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p>Sorry, you're in error here. </p><p>The review section of ENWorld wasn't up when HotDQ launched. It was released in November, three months after HotDQ had been released. The reviews had read and many had likely played through a lot of the book. </p><p>The issue is the number of reviews. The initial few reviews just happened to be good, which gave it a high rating despite the message board response being tepid from the start. But as more people reviewed and rated the book the rating dropped as the fewer high ratings were offset by larger numbers of lower ratings to give a more accurate number. Which is the point of an aggregate review system. </p><p></p><p>PotA has been read. It has been played. Enough time has passed that if people were going to suddenly change their mind the score would have shifted already. But it hasn't. Yes, the score of HotDQ changed. But that's not relevant to the quality of PotA. <em>Tyranny of Dragons</em> shouldn't really enter into the discussion of evaluating if PotA is good or not.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Numbers matter. Only 6 people have reviews <em>Skull & Shackles</em> (it's not "certified") so the one average and one poor review disproportionately affect it's rating. <em>Kingmaker</em> is popular but also has a lot of flaws, and is divisive. People who love it, love it a lot. People who hate it, really hate it. And the new subsystem for the game is so-so. </p><p></p><p>RotRL vs PotA... that is a bit odd as I liked the former so much better. But they're totally different stories. RotRL really has a tight story, which can put people off. People really enjoy rating down story-based adventures for being "on the rails", which they don't do for sandbox adventures being open ended. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Not into heavy dungeon crawls. Okay then. Question answered: PotA is probably not for you. Anything more is beating a dead horse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6682804, member: 37579"] Sorry, you're in error here. The review section of ENWorld wasn't up when HotDQ launched. It was released in November, three months after HotDQ had been released. The reviews had read and many had likely played through a lot of the book. The issue is the number of reviews. The initial few reviews just happened to be good, which gave it a high rating despite the message board response being tepid from the start. But as more people reviewed and rated the book the rating dropped as the fewer high ratings were offset by larger numbers of lower ratings to give a more accurate number. Which is the point of an aggregate review system. PotA has been read. It has been played. Enough time has passed that if people were going to suddenly change their mind the score would have shifted already. But it hasn't. Yes, the score of HotDQ changed. But that's not relevant to the quality of PotA. [I]Tyranny of Dragons[/I] shouldn't really enter into the discussion of evaluating if PotA is good or not. Numbers matter. Only 6 people have reviews [I]Skull & Shackles[/I] (it's not "certified") so the one average and one poor review disproportionately affect it's rating. [I]Kingmaker[/I] is popular but also has a lot of flaws, and is divisive. People who love it, love it a lot. People who hate it, really hate it. And the new subsystem for the game is so-so. RotRL vs PotA... that is a bit odd as I liked the former so much better. But they're totally different stories. RotRL really has a tight story, which can put people off. People really enjoy rating down story-based adventures for being "on the rails", which they don't do for sandbox adventures being open ended. Not into heavy dungeon crawls. Okay then. Question answered: PotA is probably not for you. Anything more is beating a dead horse. [/QUOTE]
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