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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drifter Bob" data-source="post: 1523400" data-attributes="member: 17723">1) As has been pointed out, rpg books do not generally go stale very quickly, so writing a review long after an item is 'hot', can still be useful.2) You might be exactly the kind of reviewer we need more of.  Did anyone ever think that the industry is being affected by the opinions of a fairly small number of pepole?  I for one would like to see more reivews from people who are doing it from a practical gamers point of view.  I don't really care so much if something has some tiny rules infraction or doesn't jibe with the spirit of 3.5 as much as I want to know if it has content whch can make my game more fun.  Though it can be helpful to know these technical things, I feel often that too much attention is paid to issues like balance sometimes, from too canonical of a perspective.And personally, when I read a review, I don't need it to have flowery language or incredible wit or be the most brilliant prose I ever laid eyes on, I'm just interested in the basic factual qualities of the item in question.  Does it have the sort of things that I'm looking for.  For what that is worth, I'd actually vote for quantity in terms of number of reviewers over quality of the actual review.  Though both are nice to have, the former is more likely to give you a well rounded picture of the item in question.  Just look at say, Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews.JR</blockquote>