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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonAdam" data-source="post: 4911021" data-attributes="member: 2446">Awesome work. I wholeheartedly made the switch the 4e (not that I love everything about it, but I like it a whole lot more than 3.x), so I bought this on the strength of Grim Tales, and this doesn't disappoint.  It definitely gives me what I want: a solid set of rules for when I want to go back and run a 3.x adventure or mini-campaign without grinding my teeth at all the things that came to bug me over the years.  That's probably not your modal demographic, but you've done a great job on that margin nonetheless.Rather than listing all the things I like, let me just say: at first glance ALL the changes (from what I remember of 3.x) look good, even if I would prefer more radical ones in some places.A few remarks:-Quivering Palm mentions monsters that can't be crit'd.-The section on rote/restricted/ritual seems way too brief and out of the way.  It never gets brought up again (except on the spell sheets in the back). Seems like a fundamental enough point to mention in several places.-I second the call for a list of the SRD spells r/r/r categorization.  This should be in the main book. I had exactly the same question about magic missile.-As far as the design intent goes--coming from someone who hasn't followed the design discussions or played 3.x in a while--the 10 minute rest and r/r/r distinction is meant to diminish the cost to the party as a whole to keep moving?  I ask because, if I'm reading it correctly, it doesn't eliminate the incentive to engage in the 10 minute adventuring day and scry-buff-teleport to your heart's content. Is its purpose to simply lessen the penalties for reasonable players to carry on in the absence of a ticking bomb?  This isn't a complaint--anything with daily abilities, 4e included, has some chance for their "abuse" (relative to our image of dungeoncrawling)--just a clarification.-What does this system do to the average length of fights (in rounds) over the 20 level span? I ask partly because the classes still grant a massive number of spell slots at high levels.-After skimming the analysis, I wasn't entirely clear on the punchline about the Big Six.  It seems like the difference between an 80% success rate and a 99% one is enormous in terms of play experience.  Did I miss a summary statement of their importance and what to do in low-magic games without them (or where they are rare)?-Rules for quick-picking items when making characters over 1st level would be wondeful.  I wrote up a system myself that conformed to the wealth guidelines back in the 3.x days, and its one of the things I like about 4e (whether their numbers are right is immaterial--I like the idea).  Having to spend gold and the possibility of concentrating it to narrowly or spreading it out too diffusely was a headache for running one-shots.</blockquote>

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