I am more annoyed by the publishing model, the printing gaffes, the prices, and the attitude than by any of the rules differences. In fact, I think some of the rules are very good...some not so much, but that is not what has me boycotting Mongoose. It is very irritating when my local gamestore gets two copies of Elric and both are so badly warped and wrinkled inside you can't get the book open enough to read without breaking the spine, for instance. And that is not one of the books they have admitted has problems, as far as I know. Nor are the Elric books the only Mongoose products I have looked at over the last year or two with those kinds of problems. Frankly, trying to sell such shoddy-to the point of uselessness-products for the prices asked is shameful. Black Industries uses the same model, but at least you can open the WFRP books without breaking them, they are nicely done, etc. Although the proof-reading is about as bad.
It is not OK, with me, to continually produce substandard books and apologize and send a replacement, and then start over again with the next book. I don't even bother thinking about what Mongoose is 'printing' any more. And that's a shame, because the content of Elric and others sounds interesting and I am probably dead-on as a customer demographic for them. I really have to wonder how they stay in business.
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