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Old 11-11-2008, 02:45 AM
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Re: [RPG]: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Player's Handbook, reviewed by James Gillen

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Originally Posted by Smeazel View Post
Yes, but for me, this review did that. It did tell me things that weren't in other reviews, so I don't see it as superfluous.

OTOH, you do have a point in that it would be nice to see more reviews of other things; endless reviews of the same product do get old if they're just repeating the same criticisms. I just don't think that justifies going to the other extreme and saying that there's no room for further reviews of the D&D 4E PHB, period. This one did, IMO, bring some things to the table that other reviews had not, and it did give me some new information I had not been previously aware of.

But while I may think it a bit much to suggest the RPGnet community should "agree to stop with the 4th Edition PHB reviews" altogether, I will agree that at the very least would-be reviewers should think long and hard before posting yet another D&D 4E PHB review and make sure they really do have something new to say...
Again, it's basically a matter of the fact that everybody and his Mom already HAD reviewed this before I got to finish reading the books, so on one hand, it doesn't matter, and on the other hand, why not? Not like every rock band needs to cover AC/DC, either.

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