Slashdot reviews 30 years of Adventure

[Krug]

http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/11/29/1926224.shtml?tid=209&tid=6

 

[DaveMage]

I haven't read more than the first 15 pages, but I agree 100% with the reviewer regarding layout. It was the suckiest bunch of suck that ever sucked.

 

[Lazybones]

I thought about buying this when I saw it previewed on Amazon, but after that review (and what I've read elsewhere)... no chance. As a former editor, that kind of stuff particularly bothers me.

 

[IronWolf]

Chalk up another poor review for the book. That is really too bad, it seems WotC just threw together something, enlisted articles from people who have most of us going "Who is that?" and didn't really take the time to edit it on top of that.

I had been looking forward to this book, but with the poor reviews and such I think I will be passing on this one...

 

[Krug]

Not that I would be interested anyway, but definitely giving it a miss.

 

[fredramsey]

Man, with that poor an editing job, you'd think it was a non WOTC d20 product...

 

[Desdichado]

I had been looking forward to this book, but with the poor reviews and such I think I will be passing on this one...

Same here. Looks like my Dragon Magazine -- Campaign Classics issue has everything worthwhile about this book and skips everything else that I don't want anyway.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

I dunno, I loved the essay from Sherman Alexie (big local/quasi-famous national Native American writer/filmmaker). He supported good evidence that D&D kept him from the drugs and alcohol that were plaguing his rez. I liked it, it's a coffee table book for godsakes.

 

[Eremite]

Man, with that poor an editing job, you'd think it was a non WOTC d20 product...

Non-WotC? Um, don't you mean WotC? Anyway, perhaps they contracted out the editing to the folks over at the WotC messageboards?

I was disappointed to see the use of the "f" word in one of the essays. While I am sure that it was a very "kewl" thing to do, it hardly reflects well on the hobby. How fortunate that this book wasn't published under the terms of the d20 licence otherwise it may have breached the offensive content clauses.

 

[fredramsey]

No, I mean Non-WOTC.

While people have pointed out rules inconsistancies in some WOTC books (skill points don't add up, etc.), I can pick up any module/book by AEG, Necromancer, etc., and immediately spot BAD mispellings, duplicated sentences, etc. that anyone who actually took a minute to READ the manuscript could have found. And we're talking about horrendous errors on practically every other page. It's sad, really.

Non-WotC? Um, don't you mean WotC?