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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grompi" data-source="post: 1244459" data-attributes="member: 15403">I definitely agree this approach is better than Savage Species. Player choice is usually better, but better doesn't mean "good". I'm not disagreeing about your take on the minotaur with that statement--it's just a generality.This is part of my own point, though the acqusistion of monstrous humanoid does provide some spell immunity (assuming spells work the same way). Of course, the description of the "monstrous humanoid" ability doesn't say you don't get darkvision as part of the package. But, judging by the way the rest of  the abilities were explained by Mr. Upchurch, I guess one must assume one doesn't get anything not explicitly given.I'm wondering, since the credits page doesn't include this (nor do the credits pages of any other Fantasy Flight d20 books I own). Do you guys actually playtest your stuff before you print it, or at least have a few enthusiastically hard-nosed rules lawyers who don't care who they offend proofread? (Whether or not other companies use playtesters and proofreaders is irrelevant.) Some of the questions coming up here seem pretty basic--realizing, of course, that we're seeing it out of the context of the whole. Yet, I've had similar questions about past works, like some instances in the Path series (which are quite good, taken as a whole).It seems to me this sort of playtesting and proofreading is essential to a "great" product. Disagree if you like, but without it authors may believe that because they understand what they meant, everyone else will. This is a definite weakness in technical writing (which is what rules writing really is). The rush to get to market seems to override this common sense policy in many companies. Of course, it doesn't seem to guarantee a useful or good product (which may be a result of the "fanboy" syndrome). Thus, I arrogantly presume, we get things like Savage Species' monster levels. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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