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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2744584" data-attributes="member: 19675">I agree 100% with Rystll Arden.Besides, the mere fact that something is "grunt work" doesn't mean that the work doens't need to be done, nor that it should be done by someone other than the person doing it.  WOTC is in the unique position to have done this work properly and without paying additional licensing fees, AND with the possibility that errata and clarification could be included in the work.Hasbro/WOTC is a business, it isn't a charity- they're not under any obligation to give you this or even produce it!  If you have all of the books it compiles, great!  You can either go search ALL of those books for whatever obscure spell you're looking for, or you can buy this product and save yourself some time.I can't name another game company that has released a true compendium of all "spells" or "equipment" that was released for an RPG.I'm a lawyer- I buy all kinds of expensive books for my practice...but by the time I get them, they are often out of date in one section or another.  The law is extremely fluid.  The closest I get to a compelation are little periodical updates...and I pay through the nose for those.Crothian got it in one.  This is a useful product, every bit as valuable to me as Fast Forward Entertainment's Book of All Spells, which does the same thing for 3rd party publishers' work.Yes, but we are allowed, via this forum, to opine that your expectations vis a vis this product seem...unreasonable.It isn't required that you buy it, but many of us with huge libraries of RPG products see this as what it is: a very useful tool.  Its designed to help people save time while looking for spells, and it does so exceedingly well.So it isn't the RPG equivalent of a working Cold Fusion generator...it doesn't need to be.  Expecting it to be such is unfair.</blockquote>

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