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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 2496995" data-attributes="member: 6318">And even the request for '"How to make a monster" rules' indicates misconceptions that this is a game about lots of surprising monsters (like D&D) and that systems need 'rules' to make up monster stats (like current D&D). As I said, it's entirely inadequate as a review. The actual negative criticism responsible for the 2-star rating is as follows:First is the insinuation that the material says nothing more than that the monsters 'are evil and should be killed & looted'. It's either demonstrably wrong if literal, since anyone with the book could quote more information than that, or snide and sarcastic (and uninformative) if not. The 'looted' part is wrong, since loot is hardly mentioned. The assertion that it's not obvious why the information is unreliable is also transparently wrong (it's explained in the introduction). It is not 'stream of conscious[ness]' (writing which attempts to reproduce interior conscious experience). That leaves 'average or below-average quality': maybe so, but just asserting so without explaining the opinion is of no use to anyone.The implication that (a reasonable reader might find that) Warhammer world monsters have nothing distinctive about them is, again, either demonstrably false or snide, and either way, again the assertion is useless without back-up.This claim is, once more, unsupported except for the indirect and unsubstantiated complaints about quality and an equally vague claim that '5 pages are consumed with zero usable content of any kind (full page "art" that isn't art)' -- I don't even know what pages are referred to.It barely deals at all with how good the book is -- how well it succeeds in presenting a range of interesting, believable, and dynamic monsters. It doesn't mention how well the book represents the Warhammer world, how well put together the stats are, whether there are major omissions, how well the authors (T.S. Luikart and Ian Sturrock, who aren't even named) manage the multiple voices, or how well the art and text evoke the right atmosphere. It doesn't attempt to give any kind of vivid representation of what the book is like. It's not a review.</blockquote>

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