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Posted: May 15 2004, 01:01 AM
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QUOTE (Terraism @ May 14 2004, 02:01 PM)
I've read through it - not exhaustively, but relatively well - and my initial reaction is "decent." I did prefer the first netbook, but I think that's probably because it was more grounded in the WoT setting, if that makes sense.

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I don't have my posts archived anywhere, but after UtdB came out, I wrote a pretty nasty (and, in retrospect a little bit over the top) message on WotC's boards ranting about why 90% of the weaves and ter'angreal in the first netbook had no business being in a game that had even the vaguest connection to Jordan's universe, or in anything other than a thinly disguised D&D game. AoI is much, much better in this regard; there are only a handful of things I'd even consider banning out of hand.


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Terraism
Posted: May 15 2004, 02:21 AM
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QUOTE (drothgery @ May 15 2004, 01:01 AM)

** boggle **

I don't have my posts archived anywhere, but after UtdB came out, I wrote a pretty nasty (and, in retrospect a little bit over the top) message on WotC's boards ranting about why 90% of the weaves and ter'angreal in the first netbook had no business being in a game that had even the vaguest connection to Jordan's universe, or in anything other than a thinly disguised D&D game. AoI is much, much better in this regard; there are only a handful of things I'd even consider banning out of hand.

You've probably got a point there - I should have noted that. In the first netbook, I was more referring to the feats - specifically channeling related ones - than anything. The classes and the like as well - I honestly never looked over the ter'angreal much in that one. unsure.gif Yay for me not clarifying.


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Posted: May 15 2004, 04:05 PM
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Just passing by to say that AoI is cool. Thanks to all the staff, good job.

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Posted: May 16 2004, 10:36 AM
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I totally agree with Drothgery - I think that Age of Illusion is much more in tune with the setting.
It's okay to make a critique, but remember this is the joint effort by many fans. Take what you like and ignore the rest - nobody's forcing you to use everything. One thing I have learned from this board is that every person have their own preferences and favors different things - even when we share the same basic premise (namely Jordans books and the WoT world). Take Channelig for example, is there two persons on this board that can agree on the "perfect" channeling system ??? We all have our own version of WoT.

So thumbs up guys, I think AoI is cool and contains many, many great ideas. I don't intend to use them all, but thats not a problem.

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The Great Gray Skwid
  Posted: May 16 2004, 06:58 PM
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QUOTE (Terraism @ May 14 2004, 10:01 PM)
The first thing that jumps out on me is the column layout - while columns are certainly good things, you've got a problem because, with a number of prestige classes, the abilities table bisects the page. A reader expects to read to the bottom of the page in a column before moving on to the next - breaking over halfway, so that the order is upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right, as opposed to left-right, is distracting. Even after one realizes it, it's the kind of thing that'll subconsciously interfere with reading and material absorbtion.

Welcome, Terraism!

I tried several different formatting options on the classes, and some of them looked marginally better, but in the end I decided that the format MAB had used in UtDB was good enough, and gave the added bonus of continuity in look-and-feel for those who would be using Classes and PrCs from both books. I thought that was important enough to overwhelm the marginal improvement in readability.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback on the book, I really appreciate, and I'm sure the rest of the staff does, too.


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