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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 3085612" data-attributes="member: 13703">Overall I find Weapons of Legacy to be a good idea executed poorly.  Some people don't have a problem with the weapons and the fact that they give PC's negatives to attacks, skills, hit points, saves and/or spell slots.  Other people think that it sucks on toast.Personally I'm still on the fence with this one.  So far I haven't thought of a different way implement them that doesn't give PC's negatives.  In the campaign that I am currently running the PC's have just hit 5th level.  I'm thinking of introducing them into the game, 1 per PC and just not worrying about the negatives.  Sure it will make the PC's more powerful than a "normal" PC of their level but if every PC gets one it shouldn't be unbalancing within the party.  If the party are walking over the bad guys I can just up the challenge of things that I throw at them to compensate.As for the book itself.  I found the organisation to be absolutely horrible.  I had to search through the entire book the first time around to find out what level PC's could get the different rituals.  Reading posts on these boards made me realise that I was far from alone in this.  The book would have also greatly benefited from an index, something that Wizards don't seem to want to do anymore.  The editing could have been improved too.  Are spell slot losses cumulative?  You figure it out.  The book says that they are in one spot and they aren't in another!Overall a book that has a lot of promise but probably needed a bit more work done on it before they put it out to make it the really good book that it could have been.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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