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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DungeonMaster" data-source="post: 3167272" data-attributes="member: 27431">The setting has many parallels with the real world but in an ancient and fantastic age. There are few monsters, and when you meet them they are generally very deadly. Encounters are generally with humans and humans are divided into a plethora of races. Race, and by corrolary social structure, is one of the most important and defining characteristics of the setting. If you're a black barrachan you're very different than a himelian. Mechanics wise the classes, skill system and combat system are very similar to 3rd edition and in general better designed. Notable differences: Initiative increases with level and is often the deciding roll of combat. Damage caused by weapons is immense, 1-hit kill is very common particularly with the massive damage rule. The magic system is quite good, but you invariably turn evil in the end when you go the path of sorcery. The numbers are geared for it. In general PCs should not be sorcerors. There are a lot of little things that many of my players liked: codes of honor, reputation and fate points. Mechanically fate points allow your PCs to keep their character, otherwise they die really fast. My players described much of the object of the game as keeping your fate points high because some times you need to use a whole pile in a single game session. So you need to accumulate more victories (gambling, stealing, combat, etc...) than defeats to keep going.From a DM percpective if you don't like crafting NPCs then don't bother. You need to make numerous NPCs for each session. If you enjoy this than it's right down your alley.</blockquote>

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