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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sea Devil" data-source="post: 2141345" data-attributes="member: 22810">I too was very disappointed in GWd20. Ultimately I give a 4 out of 10. I've kept my copy of it and have read and reread it several times.  The problem with it ultimately comes down to this: it was a personal project and not a market product. The editor/creators focused on what they wanted/liked and blewoff/ignored what they didn't care for.  For example it bends over backwards to put technological sci-fi in every chance it gets and tries to make everything about it "cooler" than anythign else.  I've heard and read a lot of comments that the sythetics are more of a EL +1 race than balanced.  Plus (to my understanding) there's little to no side-effect to having cybernetics and/or nanotech (which IMHO was overpowered, the nano tech that is).  However; biotech, mutations and psychic powers all screwed up the characters even if they supposed to be beneficial. I remember one of the creators posting that the pregame testing went beautifully. I bet they handpicked friends of their's to test it and they had the same interests. I also saw a post once by one of the creators complaining about the negative reviews that GWd20 was getting and boy did he come off (IMHO) as whiny. Of course he posted this on a forum that kept praising it and just let the sympathy posts flow.  Now I do respect that they did put a lot of time into their personal version of GW, but when you revise an existing setting and make only barely like the previous versions you better be ready for some serious criticisms.   Oh well maybe the next version will at least be half-way decent.</blockquote>

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