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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 133540" data-attributes="member: 53">There will always be room for innovation, and such a product will get good comments and bad comments just because it's being innovative.  You seem to be the type of person who would raise a review you were giving one or two points just because it is being innovative...regardless of whether it's a good innovation or not.  Even if you aren't, there certainly are others who are.  There are also traditionalists who will trash anything that isn't what they expected.  An "innovative" product will get trashed almost regardless of it's actual value because what they are looking for isn't there.As for the 95% of the stuff is crap, that's certainly subjective.  However, while 95% of the usual products are crap, so are 95% of the "innovative" products.  Most of such products seem to be put out by people who want to be different.  However, in their search for innovation, they forget to make the product useful or appetizing.There is also the handicap that innovative products, not having as much to build on as a traditional product, have major flaws in them.  One of my favorite RPG systems is Hero Wars.  I absolutely love the concepts behind the system and the character generation system is the best I've ever seen.  However, there are major flaws in the system that deter most of my players from it.  If I were reviewing it I couldn't give it a very solid rating.  <As an aside, I'm hoping Heroquest is going to fix most of those flaws>.Glyfair of Glamis</blockquote>

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