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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Votan" data-source="post: 2915723" data-attributes="member: 18680">I had acquired the impression that they were one of those game world creators who had decided to sell books by escalating power levels.  I think I might have had them confused with another publisher because, so far, actual reading of their books showed very balanced and interesting rules.  It's true that we have had trouble with 1 or 2 True20 rules (saves for multi-class characters was the most annoying) but, in general, they cover the guts of a system in less than 100 pages.  I actually find it easier to recreate characters from Risus in True20 than D&D.  Example: We had some hard to translate characters such as mine:Ryu:  Jedi (4), Swordsman (3) and Leader (2)D&D 3.5 leaves few good options that are mechnaically solid.  The best I could do was:Ryu: Paladin 2/Psion (Telepath) 2 (just one of the most MAD and awkward multi-classes ever; Wilder would be okay but so many levels are needed jsut to duplicate his telepathy which was one of his major traits)In True 20 he works out really logically as a Warrior 1/Adept 3.  That was a virtue in that you could translate some pretty exotic characters into the system.</blockquote>