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<blockquote data-quote="Yellow Sign" data-source="post: 1192300" data-attributes="member: 5619"><p>No I am not saying that. The Gamma World Players Handbook has some nice things going for it. I like the talent trees. I like the community rules. Very Nice. But the heart and soul of ANY Gamma World game has to be the "Races" (Pure Strain Human, Mutant Animals, etc) and the MUTATIONS! I am just saying that they really dropped the ball on these. A half hearted list of weak and many times useless mutations both good and bad does not give me any good feelings about this book. You can talk about a "neat" setting until you are blue in the face. But with out a full list of good mutations I have to say they dropped the ball on this book. And looking at the races, I see a catch all mutant race with little to show for it. With it's "disadvantage" of being about to gain new mutations as you level or go below 0 hp, it's pretty dull. I am just saying that alot more thought should have gone into it. </p><p> </p><p>PS.</p><p> And If SS&S wanted to grab the game buying public and sell them on this game they should have come out with something that would have caught our attentions with WOW THATS NEAT! I didn't want to hear. "Well we have some other books coming down the line that should make up for the first book."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yellow Sign, post: 1192300, member: 5619"] No I am not saying that. The Gamma World Players Handbook has some nice things going for it. I like the talent trees. I like the community rules. Very Nice. But the heart and soul of ANY Gamma World game has to be the "Races" (Pure Strain Human, Mutant Animals, etc) and the MUTATIONS! I am just saying that they really dropped the ball on these. A half hearted list of weak and many times useless mutations both good and bad does not give me any good feelings about this book. You can talk about a "neat" setting until you are blue in the face. But with out a full list of good mutations I have to say they dropped the ball on this book. And looking at the races, I see a catch all mutant race with little to show for it. With it's "disadvantage" of being about to gain new mutations as you level or go below 0 hp, it's pretty dull. I am just saying that alot more thought should have gone into it. PS. And If SS&S wanted to grab the game buying public and sell them on this game they should have come out with something that would have caught our attentions with WOW THATS NEAT! I didn't want to hear. "Well we have some other books coming down the line that should make up for the first book." [/QUOTE]
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