The main idea behind this book is to give more options and flexibility to every class in the game. For most classes, what he does is offer around half a dozen groups of related class abilities, called "tracks", from which a character of that class is allowed to choose three or four. You can recreate the core classes exactly as per the Player's Handbook by picking the "default" tracks, or you can customize your character in some other direction entirely. You can, to a limited degree, take tracks from other classes, so for example you could give your Cleric of the god of thieves less spellcasting ability and no turning undead, but more skills, limited Sneak Attack, and more suitable class skills.
That's just the first chapter, but to me it's by far the most important one. Another chapter many players will like gives a system for playing characters of unusual races that is interestingly different from the official ones; those who didn't care for Savage Species will probably find it worth a look. (Hey, the price is sure right.)
Some of the rest is hit and miss. A section of alternate uses for skill points fell flat, at least for me, but he has an interesting method for building prestige classes whose only serious fault - if it can be called that - is that it was not developed even further and worked into the core class modifications in the first chapter.
This is one of the more interesting "crunchy" D20 products ever and marked a promissing beginning for this small company. Pity they haven't followed it up with a significant number of other releases, but that doesn't make this one any less good. And did I mention that it's INSANELY cheap?<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Many, many ways to tweak a class so that it's just right for your character concept, done by someone who clearly understands the D20 system like few other non-insiders. Also features my favorite rules for monster PCs, blowing those in Savage Species out of the water in my opinion.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: It's for 3.0 - normally that doesn't matter to me, but when you're diving this far under the hood of the rules the little changes start to add up. A 3.5 version was supposed to be on the way, and in fact at one point the author said it was nearly done, but it has yet to appear.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>
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