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Friday, September 24, 2010

Sometimes the Best Review is No Review at All

Over the last 6 days I've been eligible to review one Gmail screen-plus worth of products from RPGNow.  I may have peeked at a dozen or so on the web, and actually grabbed 2 or 3 for later reading / reviewing.  So what about the rest?

They way I see it, if there is no chance that I will EVER use the product in any way, shape or form, I'm probably better off not snagging a copy.  Pathfinder stuff falls into that category, except for the modules, as they are easily converted and I still speak the language, if not the dialect.

4e stuff is out.  A pain to convert to anything that resembles OSR.  Ah well.

Most things that give out the "overpriced vibe" unless they look fricken awesome.  I'd hate to grab a reviewer copy of something that I suspect is over priced and find out that I was right.  Besides, I suspect reviewer copies are counted in the sales levels / awards (this is a guess only), and I don't want to boost the numbers of an item I expect to not justify its price in my eyes.

Most adventures for games I don't own the rules to.  There are exceptions.  Sometimes an adventure / module look so damn intriguing I'll buy the rulebook just to enjoy the adventure.

Foreign language products.  If it isn't in English, I won't touch it.  German language products are tempting, to see how far my college German can take me, but I suspect after the first page I'll give up ;)

Diorama products, as I have no space to display anything that I might actually produce from it.

So yes, I leave about 95% of what I am eligible to grab just where it is... but I'm getting fairly good at ensuring the other 5% is worthwhile, which ain't that bad ;)

8 comments:

  1. I am so tempted by some of the 3D terrain. I just lack the skills to properly assemble it and as you mentioned, storage would be an issue.

    I need a man cave or something to properly store my stuff!

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  2. I might try to assign myself some Man Cave space with upcoming renovations, assuming the fiance allows me to... heh

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  3. Hey, when did the girlfriend get upgraded to fiance? Congrats!

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  4. We crossed that line in the sand without realizing ( well, my son realized as he has been busting my ass to get a ring... Heh). We both mutually realized " holy shit, I'm marrying you and it's awesome." kinda like a mutual proposal, without the proposal - we both already knew the answers ;)

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  5. I love happy endings, or should I say beginnings. Congratulations.

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