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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4441707" data-attributes="member: 1054">I remember being quite excited about it from the ad campaign, and being painfully disappointed when it came out. For a promised generic system, it was anything but. It had a nigh-incomprehensible magic system, insane attribute names ("Quick! Roll Physical Neural Capacity!"), a stunningly dull default setting, and impossibly strange emphasis on weird sub-sub-skills (check out the section on Jester skills sometime...). I don't know if it was actually playable.I've got all of the books except the big adventure. I think a lot of the obscurity and strangeness was due to efforts to avoid being sued by TSR; that didn't work. About the best thing you can say about it is was that it was Gygax at his most Gygaxian; the writing was typically idiosyncratic and personal, with the author's voice being clear and distinct. That style of writing is sadly rare in modern games, or is limited to blocks of bad fanfiction interspersed with the rules themselves.</blockquote>