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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 4245369" data-attributes="member: 48965">My bad, I will now clean some of the egg off my face... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> However, I still think (and again my feelings as a consumer) that the "reviews" so far have been placed in a compromising position.  Even in this situation, Ari is a friend of the reviewer and someone whose, at least in part, livelihood is affected by the number of people that buy into 4e.  Thus I still see reason to consider bias. (Whether it does or doesn't influence the review is something only Massawyrm knows).  It's like asking a friend to review a play that you play a minor role in...there could be a conflict of interest.  It also worries me that no "real reviews" will be allowed until after the books are released.  It reminds me of those movies that won't let a reviewer critique them early, and IME they usually (though not always) aren't that great.  YMMV of course.</blockquote>