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<blockquote data-quote="Voss" data-source="post: 4293789" data-attributes="member: 57593">This I agree with.&nbsp; The numbers are nicely consistent (except for damage vs. hit points, which falls off at higher levels), but there isn't any sense of verisimilitude, let alone anything fun or interesting.&nbsp; There are a couple good ideas buried in the dross that may be worth mining for another system, but I can't muster any urge to actually play it as written.The design decisions seem to revolve around making future products easier to design, since everything can be plugged in and compared to the standard formula-by-level.&nbsp; As a side effect, this makes the game fairly easy to DM, but it also makes the game fairly bland and boring.&nbsp; None of the powers are particularly interesting, and almost everything is an excerise in pure dice rolling.&nbsp; 30th level characters have all of 17 discreet things to do, and all of them are variations of the same things they were doing at first level, but with bigger numbers (which are exactly matched by the opposing numbers on the other side of the table, which makes it a wash).&nbsp; Since normally,&nbsp; 75% to 80% of the people at the table will be players rather than DMs, I can't see this level of boredom as a good thing, and wouldn't want to subject players to it.&nbsp; The game really feels like a hybrid of D&amp;D and Advanced Heroquest, but somehow less interesting than both.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voss, post: 4293789, member: 57593"] This I agree with. The numbers are nicely consistent (except for damage vs. hit points, which falls off at higher levels), but there isn't any sense of verisimilitude, let alone anything fun or interesting. There are a couple good ideas buried in the dross that may be worth mining for another system, but I can't muster any urge to actually play it as written. The design decisions seem to revolve around making future products easier to design, since everything can be plugged in and compared to the standard formula-by-level. As a side effect, this makes the game fairly easy to DM, but it also makes the game fairly bland and boring. None of the powers are particularly interesting, and almost everything is an excerise in pure dice rolling. 30th level characters have all of 17 discreet things to do, and all of them are variations of the same things they were doing at first level, but with bigger numbers (which are exactly matched by the opposing numbers on the other side of the table, which makes it a wash). Since normally, 75% to 80% of the people at the table will be players rather than DMs, I can't see this level of boredom as a good thing, and wouldn't want to subject players to it. The game really feels like a hybrid of D&D and Advanced Heroquest, but somehow less interesting than both. [/QUOTE]

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