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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CRGreathouse" data-source="post: 1729452" data-attributes="member: 474">These terms both appear once:"I despised their take on alignment, I hated their strongly good-slanted pantheon, I found their gods to be as flat as Greyhawk gods or FR gods"You see, this is a major issue for me.  The product would have been much more useable for me -- and, in my opinion, a better product overall -- was it not for their take on alignment.  To put it another way, I would have rated the product better if not for this issue alone; flagging it with strong words is key for people who don't see this as a flaw to put less subjective weight in my review.The good-slanted pantheon is just the 'tip of the iceberg' here; the interpretation is everywhere.  For example, a LG god has three distinct worshipping factions: one NG, one LG, and one LN.  Each is the perfect stereotype of their alignment (which restricts creativity, IMO and IMX).  There's no overlap between factions.  All NG clerics must act one way.This is how it works for all of the factions of all of the gods.  It's also how the prestige classes, et al, work.I didn't find it to be particularly solid (creativity and prestige class balance come to mind), nor particularly generic (alignment is the major offender here, in factions, cults, general slant, and so forth).I would have enjoyed a generic pantheon greatly, presuming a reasonable degree of creativity.  I did not find the BotR to be an exemplar of this.I found many to be unbalanced/frontloaded, and I chose what I felt was the worst example to point out in my review.  Weak classes never break the game, but powerful ones can.It is certainly possible to play in such a world, but it is much less generic and (IMX) generally requires more work on the DM's part.As mentioned above, this is just a part of the greater problem for me, not the crux of my issues with the book.What, in particular, would you like to see in my review?  I'd be willing to add more to it, if I thought I left something important out.</blockquote>

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