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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8098283" data-attributes="member: 7635"><p>Disappointing. This was back in high school, so the DM wanted to run a game of it sold it as "Like Conan (the movie) but with weird sci-fi stuff". It wasn't at all how he sold it.</p><p></p><p>I made a mul gladiator, because even I could see how op it looked on paper. We had a thri-kreen psionicist, a half-giant fighter, and an elf preserver. Someone rolled up a thief, but never played. I don't think we did the pc tree thing because the DM didn't want to or didn't read enough to see it.</p><p></p><p>We dicked around in the main city for a while before deciding to go find some rumored magical item. The plot details are hazy. I remember the DM was extremely annoyed whenever the psionicist did anything because he actually hated psionics but felt it was part of the setting. I also believe my sword broke in the first fight and I was using a "shard" as a dagger for the rest of the game. The half-giant also got charmed/dominated by some strange cat-like creature and splattered the elf in one hit. I'm pretty sure we called the game there and never played it again.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm sure the DM did a lot to sour my impression of the game (I played with him for decades, but looking back I can see some real flaws in his game style) but after that, my impression was of a setting that was a meat grinder for munchkins. I never cared much for the setting until much later reading the 4e setting book and seeing the potential. It's not my favorite setting by a longshot (as I said elsewhere, I prefer Primeval Thule as a pulp setting), but I see some potential in it. Depending on how WotC handles it, of course.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 8098283, member: 7635"] Disappointing. This was back in high school, so the DM wanted to run a game of it sold it as "Like Conan (the movie) but with weird sci-fi stuff". It wasn't at all how he sold it. I made a mul gladiator, because even I could see how op it looked on paper. We had a thri-kreen psionicist, a half-giant fighter, and an elf preserver. Someone rolled up a thief, but never played. I don't think we did the pc tree thing because the DM didn't want to or didn't read enough to see it. We dicked around in the main city for a while before deciding to go find some rumored magical item. The plot details are hazy. I remember the DM was extremely annoyed whenever the psionicist did anything because he actually hated psionics but felt it was part of the setting. I also believe my sword broke in the first fight and I was using a "shard" as a dagger for the rest of the game. The half-giant also got charmed/dominated by some strange cat-like creature and splattered the elf in one hit. I'm pretty sure we called the game there and never played it again. I'm sure the DM did a lot to sour my impression of the game (I played with him for decades, but looking back I can see some real flaws in his game style) but after that, my impression was of a setting that was a meat grinder for munchkins. I never cared much for the setting until much later reading the 4e setting book and seeing the potential. It's not my favorite setting by a longshot (as I said elsewhere, I prefer Primeval Thule as a pulp setting), but I see some potential in it. Depending on how WotC handles it, of course. [/QUOTE]
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