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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4936319" data-attributes="member: 11821">Well, it's a very 90's-era RPG.It does an awesome job of making a D&D setting make sense...  Like so many of the best 90's games, the world and the system are tightly intertwined - it'd be difficult to use one without the other.  The mechanics are actually fun in and of themselves ... exploding dice + varying dice sizes makes for entertaining play, IMO.Also, in the vein of 90's games, most of the supplements are 90% fluff, 10% crunch.  Several supplements were literally nothing more than overpriced collections of short stories. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  It can be forgiven, though, because FASA was basically the king of making good gaming fluff back then.  So I wouldn't worry much about compatibility - I'd say, without knowing the new rules at all, that the old supplements are completely relevant.I'm looking forward to this book more than I thought I would.  I still have my Earthdawn books in my secondary gaming shelves (along with my 3.5 stuff, and a few other good games I'm not currently playing) despite not having played it in 10 years.-O</blockquote>