Any Unearthed Arcana Reviews?

[trentonjoe]

...and who worships Bahgtru!

That needs 6,001 xp to get to 2nd level. <meanwhile back at the ranch the party thief is 4th level!>

 

[Lord Rasputin]

Nah, it was all about my drow-elf cavalier with 9d6 strength and double specialization with the glave-gursamie!

My valley elf thief-acrobat/cavalier fights with dual glaive-guisarme-bill-glaive-pikes so nyeah-nyeah-nyeah! It's just too bad he has hit his maximum level.

Seriously ...

The book is pretty darn nice, though it's surprising just how much of it is reprinted from other places. Defense Bonus, Armor DR, Racial Paragon Classes, Bloodlines (Andy Collins's house rules), Sanity ... we're talking a huge percentage of the book is available elsewhere. Much of the original stuff -- Spell Points, Traits, Flaws -- is stuff that, though being original implementations, other folks are already doing.

Still, there's a bunch of stuff that will prove useful for my games. I'm trying Players Roll All the Dice for the first combat this Saturday, just to see how it goes. We have a large group, so it might keep folks at the table rather than standing up to look around the gaming store.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Also, they (generally) think things through better than other house rulers would do. For instance, they detail just exactly how much power will creep if you use the spell points rules, from infringing on the sorcerer, to having a few more spells/day, to being able to use more powerful spells more often.