About the Top20: I only own the Manual of the Planes and the Legions of Hell, two books I really like although they make me use them very sparingly exactly because I am afraid of "spoiling" them
I have also seen and read some parts of Madness in Freeport - nice adventure series which we have played, but nothing legendary - and Book of the Righteous, which I probably should read better because it seemed only average to me.
Crothian said:
WEll, if someone feels that a certain product is good, review it. That's the only way that this becomes any better is to have more people review things. This is a reflection of EN World since the reviews come from the people of EN World. Some books are general, some are specific. I don't think that should matter. All people can do is review the book for what it is and not puunish it for what it isn't.
I am sure that ALL of us are willing to say a few words on the book we have but very few want to write down a FULL review.
I can say this about myself, but I think it applies to many of us... I really like writing reviews, and I did so for music albums in a local intranet site with friends, but I have never wrote a single one in ENWorld. One reason is [shameless] because I think that the official reviewers are so good that I feel my review would suck in comparison[/shameless]. I don't want to write an incomplete or approximate review if I do so. Also I don't have time to playtest a book throughout, but this should be one of the most significant support to a review's value. The consequence is: rather than writing a low-profile review, I don't write it at all.
On the other hand, I have quite a precise idea about every book I own, and about many others I often have the chance to borrow from collecting friends, and my overall opinion could at least increase the amount of marks for more statistic value.
I understand that it's not simple, but I would like ENWorld to give different space for FULL and QUICK revisions separately. It would be nice if we could just enter our VOTE with a couple-lines comment (or even without - it could even be just a simple poll), just as it is done by IMDB for movies. I still think that the full reviews are the MOST informative, but since it's hard to write them well, a few people do compared to how many of us own each book, and this results in fewer marks which means a LESS informative average.
In conclusion, the TOP would be to add a simple poll to each book so that who knows the book but doesn't want to write a thesis about it could still post a mark. The reader who wants a public opinion on a book reads the poll average (like browsing IMDB for a movie), while the one who wants an expert's deeper analysis reads the full reviews (like browsing ALLMOVIE).
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