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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 1722994" data-attributes="member: 518">I don’t pay any attention to them anymore, really. At least not the one’s here on ENWORLD. My tastes in gaming products seem to differ quite a bit from the average ENWorlder or Staff reviewer, and I’ve learned that I cannot “trust” most of the reviews.For example, I‘ve seen some books that were very inspirational to me or very useful to me get slammed for editing, balance, or mechanics errors which didn’t bother me in the slightest. And just the same, I’ve seen multiple 4 & 5 star reviews of products I considered extremely bland and/or poor (AFAIC)In addition, in the early days of D20, most of these companies were all very new, and we did not have any idea of the type of quality products they were putting out. Nowadays we know that the Malhavoc's, and Green Ronin’s and Necromancer's stuff is going to be of a certain level of quality. I know now for example, Necro products suit me to a T and I’m likely not to be disappointed with anything I purchase from them..sure I may like some products less or better than other’s but I know they will hit the bar, and usually clear it with plenty of room to spare. The opposite is true with some other products, like many of the WOTC products for instance. They just don’t cater to my needs anymore, and I know the WOTC “formula” for a supplement, and so I don’t bother reading reviews because I pretty much know what is going to be in the book, and not very useful for me.I do still read the reviews however. Quite often. But only to gather general information on what is in a book or what it’s theme is.EDIT: to answer your first question though, YES I have in the past. Like Diaglo, OSM was a "review" buy (and I'm also waiting for #2). But these days, I do not.</blockquote>

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