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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barcode" data-source="post: 1034676" data-attributes="member: 3165">Disappointed.I understand the desire to present this as an "alternate PHB", meaning that you won't need a Players Handbook, but how realistic is that?  Just about everyone who buys this will own the PHB anyway.  Therefore, the estimated 40-60% of the book dedicated to reprinting SRD core mechanics are wasted repetition for anyone who already owns a PHB.The good changes that were implemented in 3.5 are not present in AU (skill consolidation being one obvious example), so you'll likely want to apply those from the SRD at least, if not own the 3.5 PHB.The races are pretty cool, and I like much of the magic system, but IMO these could have been presented in a much smaller, and therefore cheaper book.  The combat variants are minor, and could have been presented in a long ENWorld post.I thought it was visually unappealing.If this product wasn't hyped to death, I wouldn't have thought ill of it, but it fell far below my high expectations.  Not worth the price tag.  For someone who does not yet own a 3.0 PHB, this is *not* a better buy than picking up the 3.5 PHB.  It is not a bad alternative to buying 3.5, particularly with the availability of the SRD.</blockquote>