Episode 213: You're Reviewing It Wrong

[Caroline]

Ugh, these people are irritating. Any author who thinks they don't need an editor is delusional.

[Knitting Machine]

Ugh, these people are irritating. Any author who thinks they don't need an editor is delusional.

I'm no means a professional writer but for my last manuscript I had five drafts, a content editor and a professional line editor that cost me an arm and a leg. Because I know I needed it.

E: holy crap I finally got around to listening to the episode and I'm actually friends with a mod from fantasy-faction.com. They still laugh about that guy to this day!

[Macho Masc Sangy Savage]

This kind of episode is extremely my booger sugar, so Cheapskate:

[KingKalamari]

Lookit what came up in my DriveThruRPG recommendations:

Arena Fighters (Rule Book) by M.R. Mathias

The first sentence of the description?

#1 Amazon Bestseller!

It's got a stellar rating of 1/5 stars! Let's look at the comments:

Extremely disillusioned. Rules look like they took 5 minutes to create and are by no stretch of the imagination an RPG. First time I have ever had to give an unqualified "Do not waste your money" comment. Amazon #1 Bestseller???? Can only assume that this was simply a scam to soak $4.99 from unsuspecting victims.

And the authour responds:

I played this game against at least 700 people last year at Dragon Con. Most of them, I played multiple times, on multiple days, and I will hopefully be there again this year if you want to try and beat me.

Stay classy M.R. Mathias!

[Isfahan]

I played this game against at least 700 people last year at Dragon Con. Most of them, I played multiple times, on multiple days, and I will hopefully be there again this year if you want to try and beat me.

At what, M.R. Ducks Mathias? RPG design?

If you, the game designer, beat all comers at your game, that doesn't make it a good game. Your brain is broken.

[Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop]

I played this game against at least 700 people last year at Dragon Con. Most of them, I played multiple times, on multiple days, and I will hopefully be there again this year if you want to try and beat me.

If you, the game designer, beat all comers at your game, that doesn't make it a good game.

I beg to differ, I've never been bested at Calvinball before