Yes, for just a simple form, XMod might be overkill. But for a newbie, with some basic skills, it can open up a lot of capability in DNN without having to write modules. So if anyone intends to move forward with DNN for anything beyond a simple form, then XMod can be a good tool to begin to understand.

Here is another thread of interest that has some Form Module comparisons.

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/118/threadid/147970/scope/posts/Default.aspx 

Hope this helps.

What chammock said +

You would be surprised how many things you can build with Xmod just by cutting and pasting code from their code exchange (also alot of code in their forums). Plus they have a new blog where MVP's walk you through step-by-step and provide the code to build things - last one was a very cool lightbox feature. I'm still surprised at how many of the modules available on snowcovered you can build in Xmod.

While Xmod5 has narrowed the gap on ease of use with their form builder and rich text editor for templates - if ease of use is the ultimate goal Form Master probably still wins.

Greg

I agree - reporting doesn't exist on Dynamic Forms and plain sucks on Form Master 1.5 (I don't know if they've improved it since). But Dynamic Forms have a very straight-forward table structure so it's not too difficult to created your own reports with Report Module. I bet dataspring.com can help you with it, too.