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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9212391" data-attributes="member: 5948">I haven't played, but i've done a lot of reading of them and put together some sample characters.For beginner players, I'd steer clear of Warcaster and Warlock classes.  The Iron Kingdoms Warlock in particular is possibly the most complicated class I've seen in any 5e book.  Lots of bookkeeping, lots of resources to juggle, multiple pets, etc etc etc.  And Warcasters are tied to their warjack, which requires a continual supply of hundreds of pounds of coal to keep it running, which limits your party's freedom of action a LOT (you could just give them an Iosian warjack to bypass that problem, I suppose).Gun rules seem relatively fine, but I'm not much of an optimiser and I'm sure there's exploits I've missed.  They do make guns more powerful compared to most vanilla D&D weapons, but that's a deliberate design choice and fits with the setting, and I'm ok with it.There are some definite balance issues.  The big problem with PP is they pump out far too much game mechanical material, especially entire new classes, and don't sufficiently playtest.  I'd never allow the Ogrun race, for instance.  Gun Mage class seems very weak after the first couple of levels, Bonegrinder and mekanik seem fairly feeble and suffer from the Alchemist Artificer disease of being a support character who often doesn't have much of a combat button to press when you need one, which can be frustrating.  It's too easy to stack too many mekanikal boosts on a single item and make it broken as heck.There's some good stuff here, and I love the world (although for some ridiculous reason PP are continuing with their RPG line immediately post the Claiming war, but have advanced the timeline a decade or two and made a lot of changes in the miniatures game timeline that obsoletes a lot of the RPG material...) but it'd be a challenge for first-timers, and the DM would need to be willing to step in at any time to house-rule broken stuff, and players would have to be ok with that.</blockquote>

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