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Ambition & Avarice: 1st Edition $7.00
Publisher: Chubby Funster
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by Michael B. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/02/2014 00:17:03

The other reviews do a great job of listing the awesomeness of this ruleset so I'll just list what I love about it personally.

  1. Feels totally compatible with my old school D&D rules. I thin you could run this with almost no conversion, other than ascending AC.
  2. I love the way the rules tie to the gaming philosophy. It's just the right combination of old school values (The game is more fun when real chances of failure exist with significant costs of failure) and new school, play it how you want.
  3. The way classes give you skills and races give you saves is elegant and something I've thought about for years. Nice to see it in print.
  4. The DM advice is clean and concise and WILL have you running a better game. It's mostly stuff we all know but it's presented in a way that will make it VERY easy to think about and make positive improvements to your game prep.
  5. The entire game is in a small book. You need nothing else.
  6. All your old monster books will work with it.

Now the bad. Or at least the stuff I didn't think would make my game work better.

  1. There seems to be no basic fighter class. Was kind of put off by that. But, just use a fighter from some other old retro and you'll be fine.
  2. Each class gets a way to add henchmen. Very cool. But you get an extra henchmen (or the ability to get one) EVERY SINGLE LEVEL! I can't imagine the game wouldn't get cumbersome by level 10 with 5 players all managing up to 10 henchmen. Seems that is what the game would be at that point. Maybe that would be awesome? Maybe it would be painfully tedious? Overall I love this ruleset!


Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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