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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 2747696" data-attributes="member: 6390">So does Black and Decker, but if I need a hammer, I'll buy one from them.It wasn't intended on being imaginative or original, it's intended as a COMPENDIUM, feel free to look up the definition.I absolutely HATE looking through 20 odd books to find spells. This'll cut down on game play time wasted, and on GM prep time wasted.Hmmm, saves time. Is handy to look stuff up in. Doesn't take up three feet of shelf space.Sounds good.It probably took one person to do it.Do you KNOW that WotC R&D went to Disneyland or to Six Flags over Narnia while this was being made, or do you think that while this was occurring, R&D was also working on other products?I'm willing to bet they were working on something else.As in for free?They should give you the final efforts of thier labor for free?I'd say it cuts both ways.You come off as an arrogant and demanding farm animal who thinks that $30 makes him the Ultimate Ruler of d20, that's what.Who are you, the Sergeant-Major of Role Playing Games? Should they ask your permission, call you personally?It sounds to me like you have more of a case of "center of the universe"-ism than any real valid complain about the product.Nope, but I don't expect to hear you blathering on and on about how they OWE you a decent product so that you will deign to purchase it, and how it should be free.If you don't like it, don't buy it.Nope, and it was never touted as such.It looks to me like you've just got an axe to grind, and are using the equivelant of a spell encyclopedia to do it. What's next, will you gripe about Britannica putting out thier encyclopedia with no new material in it, just real world things that anyone could find out about if they read enough or went enough places?I'm arguing that it took time to gather it up all up, do layout, then a substantial cost to print it. I'm arguing that it's a nice resource for those of us who don't want to buy all the Ebberon and FR crap out there, and just want access to the spells without purchasing $500 in books.Sounds like they did me a favor, there.Wow, so in other words, they shouldn't have created something useful.Well, when you get right down to it, the entire d20 system is nothing but your "neat little termite stick" for something 5 year olds can do. Make believe.I'm sure that the car designers at Ford and Honda are glad to hear that they're Chimps. After all, a car is just a useful thing.What do you make? New life forms? Star systems? New physics theorums?Wow, thanks for your permission, God.Fine. What's the last imaginative thing you did?I think you're jumping on unimaginative as merely a way of showing your displeasure that they dared charge you for something you think they should have provided out of the goodness of thier hearts.Well, then trot right on over to the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Wikipedia sites, since they make unimaginative products.I'll take utility every time over imaginative.I have my own imagination, thanks anyway.</blockquote>

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