There were two files. One was printed sideways, making it a headache inducer to read, so I gave up. The other may have been useful if you had the Fiasco rules set. Almost every thing needs to be explained by getting and reading that other main ruleset. Since I don't, most of the book is unintelligible.

Oddly I felt that this was very similar (except for all the dfferences) to the PDQ system. Making the character was a lot like it. The Fiat (attributes) and traits were set up a Lot like PDQ, but spending energy et al to push it higher, and then if you lost, consequences (sort of like FATE) instead of losing ranks. So sort of an expanded PDQ, but nothing Left to chance. I also like Tia (the demon girl on the cover) giving examples and explanations through the book.

It is a list of 100 names of herbs - but not what they are used for.

The rule book explains how to use the four decks. Doeas a rather good job. Mostly is is an idea generator rather than a flat out list of here is what it is. each card seems to handle 4 to 6 possible things at a time, so it really dosn't matter if the same card comes up again.

I did like gathering ki, and going to 0 hit points is not instant death. But I thought that giving advantage or having a disavantage roll was a replacement for all of those fiddly modifications. having both does seem redundant.

While too close to D&D for my taste, it is well done. Simplifies most things, has a couple of new things. Like Advantages and disadventages where you roll three dice instead of two and take the two best or two worst, rather than adding a whole list of modifiers. Includes a monster manual, and geography, with both maps and descriptions. Of course nothing prevents the players from reading the GM 2/3 of the book, but that is the danger of putting everything in one volume.

The first half of the item is an almost complete copy pf the rules for Screenplay. I will ignore the rules since I a going to review them seperately. (Psst. I generally like thm.) The second half gets to the Ironbound adventure. Which they suggest is the whole of their fantasy, uh, mini-campaign. In other words a single movie with no sequals. But then suggests your writing sequals. It is an anti-magic crusade lead by a guy who is secretly a magician. Magic is defined as sort of the Cthulhu Mythos type. I.E. it drives both the practitioner and the one putting it down nuts. So everyone has some nuroses and phobias, if not flat out demon possesed or needing a few trips to the rubber room. Even if you don't plan on sequals, you will have a lot of writting a head of you as this is more of an outline than most scenarios. Which can be a good thing, as you and the players flesh it out, or a bad thing if your players aren't very inventive.

THe demo is good, does its job of presenting the game and making you want to get it. However, I will subtract a point for passing off new age ideas and doctrines and trying to pass it off as something connected to Christianity through the use of Christian words. That way it almost sounds Christian (martyrs, saints, faith, etc.) while giving a wildly different meaning to the words that has nothing to do with Chritianity, Roman, Orthodox or Protestant. So play the game if you like, enjoy it even, but do ignore the terrible theology.

OK, D&D combines bodily movement and finger useage dexterity when the word literally means finger skill. You rightly call bodily movement agility. So where did the finger involeved ability go? i admit you beat my 14 attribute system. Did you decide not to go to 19?

Rather good with one or two distractions. A tendancy to explain too much. On one page I found WAM and some other items explained twice each withword for word identical titled paragraphs. And do we really need to be told a rope climbing skill is used to climb a rope? You never gave us the promised starting characters. Just character sheets with no names attributes, skillls or other identification at all. Uh, Of is spelled with an o, not an i. Admittedly my spell checker insists I misspell a lot, but a two letter word?

Well, the artwork is marvelous. the arragement of the pages well done. Everything looks professional and first class. Except for one thing. The words are printed so small that you have to raise the adobe reader to two or three times what you normally would. Not a big problem if you are reading an electronic version, though you may have to move the page about to continue reading when one of those marvelous pictures gets in the way. But you can't raise the print size on the pages of a print book.

It's for kids, kindergarten, first or second grade. much past that it would grow boring, unless good gms who understood that age group. As they admit, it's an introduction to rpg's.

All right. I probably would have rated it better if the author hadn't improved this system in his Hero DxD, for supers. Since I read Hero first, it had to pale by comparison.

Seemed rather disappointing to me, with slapped togeather monsters. It also gave little idea of the system.

Really like the rules lite approach. Love the writing and how everything is explained in great detail. Origional rules and details that should have been done years ago. like only heroes roll, not villains option. Artwork is really good. Gives worked out percentages for how each ratng rolls. (this level trait suceeds on x% of rolls). I admit I misread theis at first and got a poor impression - my fault.