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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1561334" data-attributes="member: 63">Wulf, I got the book yesterday.  If there's any way I can repay you with ENPub products, just ask.  Heck, I kept noticing some design philosophy in GT that I try to use with my writing, so if you want a way to slip in super powers to a hypothetical GT2, or if you really want to knock down the reliance on magic items by granting innate stat boosts and such to high-level heroes, I'd be thrilled if you'd consider Four-Color to Fantasy.I really like the horror rules.  I want to use it, but so far in my current game I've had no great horror.  Thankfully I'll be starting a new game, so I can tweak things a bit.I do wish you'd had room for a few examples of the rules in action.  It felt like a somewhat sizeable part of the book was redundant if you already had a core d20 rulebook, particularly the skills and some of the feats that are in both D&D and D20M.  While I understand you including them for the completeness factor of having everything in one book, I would've rather seen a sample car chase, one or two examples of people going insane, and a couple of sample characters, particularly spellcasters, who are where the rules depart most from D20M.On the topic of getting rid of high-level save or die spells, I hate 'em too.  For EOM-Revised, I got rid of them.  The only way to off someone with a single spell is to spend XP and make a Transform spell permanent, like by turning someone into a rock or something.  All the attack spells just do damage.  I mean, there's variety (spice of life and all), but after you get past the flavorful parts of setting things on fire, or stunning people with lightning, you just get lots of d6s and you roll 'em.I haven't had a chance to read the book in full, Wulf, but so far I didn't see anything about spells and massive damage.  While a high-level melee attack might hit for ~20 points on average, enough for a less-grim character to handle without a Massive Damage Save, a high-level attack spell could easily hit for 40 damage or more.  Like I said, I haven't had more than a cursory look at the 'spell burn' rules, but if high-level spells are still around, they end up still being save or die, don't they?</blockquote>

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