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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdanovich" data-source="post: 2012085" data-attributes="member: 28357">While I appreciate every reviewer's right to his/her opinion, and I truly thank each and every one for taking the time to showcase products for the benefit of others trying to make an informed decision, I have a couple of pet peeves that continually irk me. First of all, that the basis of this review is to give weight to whether or not the price is worth the product I would comment that the number one factor should always remain content. Yes, the price could have been less. And if Fast Forward were printing tens of thousands of this book the retail price would have been amortized over a much larger print run saving thousands of dollars, and the retail could have been lower. The interior could have been color. Again, more a factor of size of print run versus cost of goods. Fast Forward would love to be able to put the extra bells and whistles into every product that large print runs afford. But until that time the production values will be more conservative. That being said, what part of those production values bring content value to the game? Having full-color interiors are visually pleasing but hardly "add" to the gaming experience, as they are not going to be seen by 90 percent of the gamers these rings would be introduced to. It would just be nice to have. No more, no less. I would be more interested in reading a review about the content rather than the packaging. But then again, I'm one of those people who could give a rat's hind end whether or not something was pretty, I care about the words. Secondly, I am always rubbed the wrong way when a large amount of effort is put into telling about typos and spelling errors. Everybody hates them, especially those that publish for a living. Everybody tries real hard to make sure that they don't happen, and they always seem to slip in, as evidenced in your review (people who live in glass houses...). 'Nuff said. That the review only gave the product a 2/5 isn't the point of this rebuttal. Make the review about the worth of the product as I would use it, not as how I would sit it on a shelf and stare at it. I want to know how it will affect my game should I buy it. Can this be a product that is useful to me? Will it make my game a better game? What type of gaming would this be best suited for? What did you think about the utility of the stats in the back, rather than interdispersed throughout the book? Wouldn't buy the individual rings? Great! That's useful information. And that's why I read a review in the first place.</blockquote>

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