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<blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 9272265" data-attributes="member: 6807784"><p>So I read the PDF today, and the layout is not bad. It isn't eye-popping amazing, but it isn't bad by any means. It 100% gives an older feel to the product, but that isn't bad. On top of that, while some illustrations were mid, many of them were very good or very interesting. I really enjoyed the Cleric illustration, as well as many of the illustrations later on. </p><p></p><p>The game pretty much reads as I expected it to. It isn't my taste, because I like more fluff in ability descriptions, but the barebones mechanics here can be used to make up just about any Fantasy world. With so many options for character paths and spells, you can easily restrain what's offered without feeling like something's lost. That's a huge boon. Once monsters are released -- and that's all that's needed, IMO, is monsters -- I feel like I could take those two books and run literally any Fantasy setting with it. It's what 5E wants to do but requires a lot of modding to accomplish, and what OSR games can do due to how rules-lite they often end up being.</p><p></p><p>I am very impressed with the work overall. He should be proud of this project because he set out to create a Fantasy game that is fun and customizable but doesn't have the mechanical overhead of Pathfinder, and he 100% managed to do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shardstone, post: 9272265, member: 6807784"] So I read the PDF today, and the layout is not bad. It isn't eye-popping amazing, but it isn't bad by any means. It 100% gives an older feel to the product, but that isn't bad. On top of that, while some illustrations were mid, many of them were very good or very interesting. I really enjoyed the Cleric illustration, as well as many of the illustrations later on. The game pretty much reads as I expected it to. It isn't my taste, because I like more fluff in ability descriptions, but the barebones mechanics here can be used to make up just about any Fantasy world. With so many options for character paths and spells, you can easily restrain what's offered without feeling like something's lost. That's a huge boon. Once monsters are released -- and that's all that's needed, IMO, is monsters -- I feel like I could take those two books and run literally any Fantasy setting with it. It's what 5E wants to do but requires a lot of modding to accomplish, and what OSR games can do due to how rules-lite they often end up being. I am very impressed with the work overall. He should be proud of this project because he set out to create a Fantasy game that is fun and customizable but doesn't have the mechanical overhead of Pathfinder, and he 100% managed to do it. [/QUOTE]
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