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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaladhan" data-source="post: 3945301" data-attributes="member: 46936">Playtesting schmaytesting.What I'm getting from reviews is what the book is about. What it covers well and what it doesn't cover too well. Let's take Dark Ages : Europe. I want to know which countries are well covered and which are barely detailed. I want to know if the description screams plothook and inspires Storyteller. In a perfect world, every book would be playtested before a review. But come on, you can't expect somebody to run a 1 year campaign and tell you how new feats are worth at every level of the game. Experienced DM can get a feel of the usefulness of something by reading the description and imagining what his player would do with it.So I read review to understand what the book is about. I don't care much about the opinion of the reviewer because reviews are so subjective. The RPG hobby is very diverse. Even in Greyhawk, there's sub-division of those who prefered Gygax era and others that prefered 2E Greyhawk. Even with a new core setting of Greyhawk, some Greyhawk fans won't be happy with it. So my point is that I have taste very different from mainstream RPG. So I just want a summary of the product. Few or no opinion please.</blockquote>