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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 3734014" data-attributes="member: 1003">I bought the system and got enough "into it" to sign up as a playtester for their high-level rules.  I ran a few adventures using it.  And I've moved on.Basically, it seemed on paper to be what I wanted, but actually solved all the wrong "problems" I have with D&D 3x.  I was excited by the thought of not having to plan character development from levels 1-20 out of the gate, to make sure the PC qualified for Feats or PrC's wanted later to flesh out concepts.  The character archetypes ended up being too narrow however, and there's no way to really distinguish one Ranger from another (other than choice of equipment and Primes).  There's also no presented system for creating a new archetype, such as a Warlock or Sorcerer type caster. A system that intelligently did away with overly-complicated prerequisites for Feats and PrC's would be a better solution for me, allowing customization but also an "organic" character development.The Primes/SIEGE Engine seemed awesome at first, but I found them to be a bit too abstract and "clumpy" in practice.  Consolidating and/or pruning  the skills list like 4e, Iron Heroes and SWSE appears to be a better solution.I actually really liked the way races were handled.  Fluff text, as mentioned was top notch.  DM prep time was ridiculously short. I've never had any problems coming up with plots, hooks, and NPC "concepts", so it was always rules-gen and stat blocks that slowed me up.  I could (and did) write a soup-to-nuts adventure in C&C in about two hours. That was a blast.But I disliked that C&C maintained OD&D's problems related to relative character power at various levels.  Mages still suck at 1st level, and they're still gods at higher levels.  Fighters still have an extra attack to look forward to three levels from now. Woot?  :\  In the end I moved on because C&C was nice for me (as the GM), but it wasn't doing my players any favors.  To fix that I started house-ruling, but I quickly found my house rules documents starting to eclipse the basic rules. It was too similar to older editions of AD&D (and thus, did not improve on it), and retained too many sacred cows. The only thing it really had going for it was the "feel", and if I wanted that I could easily just pull my AD&D books off the shelf and run that game.I still have the books though.</blockquote>

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