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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barcode" data-source="post: 1035502" data-attributes="member: 3165">Good to know.  Thanks.  Anyone want a gently used copy of AU?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Nah, I'll probably keep it on the shelf for ideas, though I suspect mixing in most elements into an otherwise straight 3.0/3.5 game would be difficult without some nerfing.  As I said before, I liked the races, and I might use some elements of the magic rules in my houseruled magic system for my D20 Modern/Urban Arcana game.  I also liked the hero points, and will probably use them as is.  I can't say much about the classes, since I didn't read them carefully yet, but they did not seem at first glance to be generic enough to use outside the context of a Diamond Throne campaign without also using a couple of the 3.x classes.While I am edified by Ray Silver's point by point denigration of my impressions, which I believe were expressly solicited, I must reiterate my feeling that the major problem with this book is that too much of it is old news.  When presented in the same format and price as say, the Books of Eldritch Might, as I assume the PDF's will be, it will be a fine enough buy.  I find the publisher's argument that they are saving us from having to lug around our PHB's to be somewhat specious.  I would suspect it is a rare table that will play without a PHB of one version or another, and they are in fact asking you and I to lug around a bigger book of AU variants, with a B&W printed copy of the 3.0 SRD mixed in to fluff up the page count.My advice would be to buy the AU hardcover if you want to give Monte or your FLGS some extra money.  I suspect the better value for most folks is down the PDF route.  The new stuff is very deliberately different and reasonably interesting, but I can't say it lives up to the hype.</blockquote>

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