Post originally by Rev. Pee Kitty at 2004-10-18 18:22:06
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You're certainly entitled to your opinion regarding the artwork -- it's a purely subjective thing, after all. But I'd have to disagree about the documents.

As I mention in my review, there's a big difference between a printed, bound booklet and a sheaf of loose paper. I have a copy of GURPS Lite, for example, that I printed out evens/odds to get a two-sided effect. To keep it together, I had to buy a report holder to put it into. It's a heck of a lot bigger and bulkier than the one I got with my screen -- I can't just slide this into a folder with my character sheets.. The only way for the average person to keep it that slim would be to staple the pages together, and then they won't lie flat.

In addition, a full half of the Character Creation booklet is 100% new stuff that you cannot get on the web -- and it's good, fun stuff. The custom character sheets alone should be a huge draw to this thing -- if I'd realized that they came with it when I bought it, I would have put in a pre-order. The "Character Creation Cheat Sheet" is <I>immensely</I> useful, as is the Master List of Traits -- I won't build a character without flipping open the booklet to these pages above my Characters book. And so on...

Anyways, compared to the price of every other GM's screen on the shelves of my FLGS ($15-$20, every last one of 'em), this one is very fairly priced. You're free to disagree, but I have to wonder what you're looking for in a screen. My requirements are, "Something reasonably priced (compared to other gaming screens) that has all the the charts and tables that I need to play the game, in a format I can easily use, and hopefully includes some cool, useful bonus material." This product hits all of those points easily, and I hope I illustrated why in my review.