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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 2132259" data-attributes="member: 9249">Gamma World d20 is the bitterest disappointment I have ever had with any d20 product. It was a complete departure from the Gamma World setting, and, in my opinion, was not particularly good as a stand-alone Post Apocalyptic game.The section on mutations was threadbare and poorly written; I can understand the desire for realism (or, at least, plausability), but these do not belong in Gamma World, and with the way they were handled in-game, they would have been better off not using mutations at all.They were forbidden from using mutant plants by their editors, but this does not excuse the piss-poor handling of mutant animals. We are not even given stats for mutant animals, but instead referred to the Moreaus in d20 Modern-- without even getting stats for new moreaus. There is, to my recollection, also no provision for additional mutations on Moreaus.Thus, we are left with a more or less generic Post Apocalyptic game that incorporates some Gamma World ideas. I'm not entirely certain, due to how long ago I looked at it, but iconic Gamma World races like the Sleeth and Dabbers were not presented as playable races. The psionics rules were poorly designed, unbalanced, and did not work within the class/level framework of d20 Modern or even similarly to the class/level framework of Gamma World 4th edition or Alternity.If you want a good d20 Post Apocalyptic game, buy Darwin's World, or wait for d20 Apocalypse and hope for the best. (I am doing the latter.) If you want Gamma World, hit eBay for a copy of either 4th edition or the Alternity version, as long as you can find the issue of Dragon that gave you the mutant animal rules. If you want d20 Gamma World, I'd recommend picking up both 4th and Alternity editions of  Gamma World and converting it yourself.If you absolutely must pick up Gamma World d20, buy it used so that you don't reward S&S for abusing the enthusiasm of Gamma World fans.</blockquote>

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