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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 584824" data-attributes="member: 1620">&quot;Devolved&quot; to talking about price? As one of the primary people saying &quot;yeah, it actually looks like it's useful but the cost is too steep at $30 USD for 176 pages&quot;, I find that remark a tad discrediting to some valid points. A book may be useful, it may be well-written, but if it costs too much then it can loose as many points on that alone as its content grants it.Comments that the title &quot;World Builder&quot; is misleading are also valid. Someone just hearing the title automatically thinks that it is for setting/world development (as so many people did when the product was first announced and continue to do so by reading the release blurb on Troll Lord's site, thus much of the confusion over it &quot;just being lists.&quot;) This shouldn't be a problem for anyone purchasing it at a gaming store as they can flip through it and see if it contains what they are looking for, but say someone were to order it online and find that what they end up buying isn't what they thought at all. You've got to keep in mind that most online stores merely copy and paste the publisher's release blurb to keep things easy on themselves and so that they can't be held accountable for any misunderstanding.Granted, I don't think anything underhanded was intended at all, I think it was just something that slipped under everyone's radar until the product was released and consumer feedback actually started to be heard on the matter. Still, it remains a valid point and one that would be sorely underestimated if relegated to the status of a &quot;devolved&quot; subject and of no relevance or importance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steve Conan Trustrum, post: 584824, member: 1620"] "Devolved" to talking about price? As one of the primary people saying "yeah, it actually looks like it's useful but the cost is too steep at $30 USD for 176 pages", I find that remark a tad discrediting to some valid points. A book may be useful, it may be well-written, but if it costs too much then it can loose as many points on that alone as its content grants it. Comments that the title "World Builder" is misleading are also valid. Someone just hearing the title automatically thinks that it is for setting/world development (as so many people did when the product was first announced and continue to do so by reading the release blurb on Troll Lord's site, thus much of the confusion over it "just being lists.") This shouldn't be a problem for anyone purchasing it at a gaming store as they can flip through it and see if it contains what they are looking for, but say someone were to order it online and find that what they end up buying isn't what they thought at all. You've got to keep in mind that most online stores merely copy and paste the publisher's release blurb to keep things easy on themselves and so that they can't be held accountable for any misunderstanding. Granted, I don't think anything underhanded was intended at all, I think it was just something that slipped under everyone's radar until the product was released and consumer feedback actually started to be heard on the matter. Still, it remains a valid point and one that would be sorely underestimated if relegated to the status of a "devolved" subject and of no relevance or importance. [/QUOTE]

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