Crown of Ruin

Statistics: The Strategic Review #2

Core Game Ratings

Rating: 5.01 / Ranking: 7832

These ratings are based on 2 ratings with 1.86 average weight.

This is compared to an index-wide 3.64 average ratings and 1.98 average weight.

This rating earns a low level of trust because of its low level of input.

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Content Ratings

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Rangers Composite:

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The Roper Composite:

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TSR News Composite:

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Core Game Comments

All User Comments

Rating User Comments
6 / 10ModernZorkerAt this point, the guys at TSR are still splashing around in the kiddie pool, figuring out which end is up and what they want to do once they really get rolling. Like issue #1, this is a short newsletter (only 4 double-sided pages), so they are limited with what they can do. Gary Gygax was infamous for his love of wargaming and medieval historical minutia, and he lets this aspect of his personality nerd out in the "Medieval Pole Arms" piece. While modern incarnations of the rules have pretty much streamlined the weapon systems, Gary clearly wanted to educate his players on the hows and whys of medieval infantry and the weapons they brought to bear against mounted opponents. It's crazy hyper-specific, and man, do I love it. The artwork is a nice touch, visually expressing each specific design so we don't have to try and imagine it. All around, this is still very hard to review objectively. Nobody else was doing this sort of thing, at least not in this way, and two issues in we can see ideas exploding off the pages as everybody gets the opportunity to run wild with their own pet likes, goals, and projects. There's a little humor, a little sadness (the passing of Don Kaye, a co-founder of TSR), and some nice slices of hobby history in these pages which make it interesting for more than just the articles.

Ratings Explanation

The following components make up a rating:

Ratings. The ratings that users enter into this index are each averaged into the final rating with a weight of between 0 and 4, with weight based on trust algorithms.

Reviews. Each review is averaged into the final rating with a weight of 8. Sometimes reviews can skew high, but they also display fan interest (or disdain) in a product.

Content. The average rating of each content--before its own bayesian weight is inserted--is averaged into the final rating. The weight of a content is equal to its own weight divided by the number of contents, and divided again if it only appears in a fraction of editions.

Bayesian Weight. A rating of 5.00 is inserted into the final rating with a weight of 35. This is an arbitrary weighting of the average rating that keeps things toward the center until they're better rated.