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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Almacov" data-source="post: 5408782" data-attributes="member: 15613">-Characters and monsters feel special. With the system being built around exceptions, and that library of exceptions having grown so much, it's very easy to whip up a combination of effects that feels unique. It's also pretty easy to design those effects yourself. Monsters in particular are gloriously simple to customize.-Environments feel special. The movement & positioning heavy nature of the game, along with other tactical nuances, make the place in which a fight breaks out matter a great deal. Hazard effects and area properties are nearly as blissfully simple and pleasant to tinker with as monsters are.-As a consequence of being less common and harder to use, non-combat magic in the forms that rituals now have domain over feels special. Magic of that magnitude can be a strenuous, long task to perform. Damage? A man with a rock can inflict damage. A ritualist of sufficient power and possessed of the proper lore - can walk on water, travel through planes, and move mountains.-Action points and daily powers give you a lovely layer of control over the pace and flow of encounters, and can act as very nice tools to enhance drama in pivotal moments.-XP being used directly as a balance currency for encounters is really intuitive. I like giving myself a budget and being able to very rapidly pick and choose monsters I want to fill it.</blockquote>