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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 1273194" data-attributes="member: 317"><p>Gotta agree with you Mercule.  I picked up AU a couple weeks after it was released, hoping for some great things from what people have raved about.  I read through it, and its the most mediocre book of the year.  Nothing really bad, but nothing grabbed me either that I wanted to use.  The idea of scaled spells was neat, but practically useless outside AU since each spell has specific scaled versions.  The classes don't do anything the core D&D classes don't, and in some cases come off as being a little too "out there" for my tastes.  The races are just plain silly to me (furries), and in general I don't like as much magic and exoticness in my games as Monte does.  Not to say that its a bad book, but its got a niche spot and limited appeal.  Basically, to use AU, you'd have to scrap large portions of existing campaigns and worlds, which is something I'm not willing to do.  I won't be picking up the other AU stuff, simply because it has no appeal to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>