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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7971326" data-attributes="member: 6775031"><p>It sounded interesting to me, up until I actually found a copy of the book.</p><p></p><p>This isn't a game about playing in the modern day. It's a game about playing an action movie, that happens to be set in the modern day. Even if you're playing in a game that has spells or psychic powers, the game refers to those as special FX.</p><p></p><p>The thing that absolutely killed it for me was the action point economy. A lot of the prestige classes had powers that required you to spend an action point to use, and the only way to recover action points was by gaining a level. Managing your basic power resource - the equivalent of spell slots - meant you had to keep an accurate track of how close you were to gaining a level. And that's not something I could ever do in a game. It's no way for a person to go through life, constantly worrying about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7971326, member: 6775031"] It sounded interesting to me, up until I actually found a copy of the book. This isn't a game about playing in the modern day. It's a game about playing an action movie, that happens to be set in the modern day. Even if you're playing in a game that has spells or psychic powers, the game refers to those as special FX. The thing that absolutely killed it for me was the action point economy. A lot of the prestige classes had powers that required you to spend an action point to use, and the only way to recover action points was by gaining a level. Managing your basic power resource - the equivalent of spell slots - meant you had to keep an accurate track of how close you were to gaining a level. And that's not something I could ever do in a game. It's no way for a person to go through life, constantly worrying about. [/QUOTE]
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