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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 1716263" data-attributes="member: 10738">Obviously you have never played any RTG games (Cyberpunk 2020, Mekton) which have lifepath generators similar to the inent of the stuff in the Hero Builder's Guidebook.My group of old school veterans had some fun with the lifepath stuff in HBG for a while; it was entertaining because you could have fun working otu what you rolled in creative ways that may not have come to mind with simply writing your own background; but the bottom line is that it provided some entertainment. The book was largely designed for new players, though, so I'd hardly pan it just for being about the basics. I still have a copy, and unlike most all of my old 3.0 books, still keep it around for the next time I have a green player in the group, or some old grognards who wan't to randomize their characters' lives.Most horrifyingly blah book for me: the entire Fast Forward Entertainment lineup, pure dreck from the get go; any gems are sadly hidden in the great wave of useless, boring, poorly-written nonsense. Runner up is the entire Mongoose product line until about a year and a half ago, when they suddenly started getting better. All those Slayer's Guides never made me not want to slay so much. The Ships of the Sea series, good god. The Gladiator and Crusaders books, yawn.</blockquote>