Wolf70
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Castles & Crusades PHB
I just got my copy in the mail this past weekend and anxiously read it as soon as I could. I like the idea of a "rules light" version of D&D that combines the best of older editions with the best of the newer ones.
Unfortunately, I was a little disappointed with this one. It is left WAY to open-ended and does not even have enough info to back the DM/GM/CK up on the many judgement calls necessary under these rules. There are many typos in the text and the volume is pretty slim as far as page count.
I am going to pick up the CKG when it is released, as well as Monsters & Treasure, since there are some things I like about this game. What I like most is that what IS there, rules-wise, can be easily ported over to pretty much any edition of D&D with no fuss or muss. It is written with a pleasant style, much like the Gygaxian prose of the original PHB.
Overall, I would not recommend this to anyone else yet, though if well-supported by a strong CKG/DMG and possibly a revision is released, it may be salvaged yet.
In short, I am not planning on switching over, just using ideas and concepts and porting them over.
DM
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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3/22/2005, 11:15 pm
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