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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5025530" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, in Steinhauser's defense, I personally found whatever good ideas and deep understanding of the limitations of 3.0 where on display in nonsi256's rules set was completely offset because of poor writing skills, poor organization, bizarre attempts to fix things that aren't really broken, and new rule innovations that simply reflect his personal taste rather than a widespread criticism of 3.X.  nonsi256 tends to show alot of the bizarre fiddliness that crept into the 1st edition design as people randomly tried to achieve various goals often with little clear idea what the consequences were or why they were trying to acheive it.  I often find myself in perfect agreement with nonsi256 about the big issues - what the fighter needs to compete, the pointlessness of psionics as a separate subsystem - but alternately utterly baffled by or simply disinterested in his particular implementation.I actually have the reverse problem with PP.  PP is well organized, well written, and tends to avoid rules changes that are only the product of personal taste, but on the other hand tends to not have very deep understanding of the limitations of 3.X and what exactly it is that needs to be fixed.  For example, nonsi's fighter shows a much clearer understanding of what is wrong with the 3.X fighter than PP does.   I'm not fully happy with it, and I find its implementation clunky and the writing terrible, but I'd use it over the PP fighter on the very simple grounds that it actually improves the situation.There are some good ideas in both rules set, but taken as a whole I couldn't endorse either of them.   Nonsi256 needs to work on his writing skills and needs to create more elegant, unified approaches throughout the work.  PP needs to step back and look at the big picture with a little more critical eye, and then apply his talents for writing and elegant rules smithing to solving the real problems in a more comprehensive and effectual manner.</blockquote>

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