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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Messageboard Golem" data-source="post: 2009157" data-attributes="member: 18387">I REALLY REALLY like this book.Sure, it's a cut-and-paste job from the Elric! RPG with d20 rules cut in. But damn, the Elric! RPG is excellent, and this book shows that it is written for a game world that has been perfected over the past 20 years.The illustrations are top-notch, the setting is rich and evocative.The new alignment system (placing the obvious emphasis on Law vs Chaos, dropping good vs evil completely, and adding a sliding scale of Law vs Chaos) is a nice addition that can be converted for use with Good vs Evil as well.The new spells are all good except for ONE that I found problems with (+4 enhancement to AC at level 1 for 1 hour / level as a level 1 spell is too much) but the remainder are VERY welcome additions to my game. The new races are the only place where I find fault with the book, as they include +1/-1 modifiers. But the flavor is there, and you just have to drop the modifiers for a half-melnibonean to make them in line with the other races in the PHB.The demon summoning system is interesting and offers a different way of maintaining game balance by having stat point costs to bind demons... sure you can have a bound demon, but it will cost you your Strength stat, mr wizard!Several new feats were introduced here also that have become common to the d20 genre already, including close-order fighting which is seen in both Sovereign Stone and Librum Equitis volume 1.Overall, if you are looking for another game world to go to than the classic D&D realms, I cannot recommend this book enough. Perhaps for some old Elric! / Stormbringer gamers this book looks a bit thin (since most of the material is reprinted from those games), but it certainly made me happy to see it all converted to d20.</blockquote>

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