I found this hugely useful for character creation as it contains A LOT of comprehensive descriptions for flaws and advantages. There are more flaws than advantages but I still found it very helpful. I converted it over to FUDGE for the campaign I am running.

I bought the The Book of Distinctions & Drawbacks standard edition as well, which I use in my fantasy campaigns.

Great price for the amount of quality content.

d20 has some great ideas. Classes that act as a sort of archetype of character development, feats so that you can have more options as to more refined development, and quite a few prestige classes (or, in this case, advanced classes) to fill even more specific niches.

There is one thing that all of the above lacks, though, and that is the actual character in the character. And that is where this book comes in. Now you can get some drawbacks (which tells you what your character can't do) and distinctions (which are little perks, but you can get extra feats, which I do highly suggest).

Many gamers feel that taking a drawback is somehow making their character weaker. In a sense that is true. However it has two benefits: one, you get a distinction of similar value, and two, you have made your character distinct from all of the others. You have something fun to role-play.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Drawbacks! They are great. Take a flaw and your character will no longer be a flimsy cardboard cutout.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: I found many of the distinctions to be lame. I just go for an extra feat, because all of the rest seems to be useless (to me, anyway).<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

This book is excellent! We use it in all our Modern games name and even introduced it to some of our existing games.

I realy like the "Plug N Play" feel of this book. It's very easy to insert the Distinctions (perks) & Drawbacks (flaws) into the D20M framework. It does this without altering the rules or forcing the GM to have to work like mad to get them to fit in :)

Gotta love that!!

With the numerous physical, psychological, and other various "drawbacks" from which to choose, this suppliment can help encourage players to be more active role players. The benefits you gain from taking a drawbacks are well balanced with the distictions.

Incredibly useful for making campaigns more interesting and creating more realistic heroes. Even more fun when you create adversaries with this material.

One of the best purchases I have ever made for any d20 line. This book really, really deserves to be integrated into any d20 Modern, Spycraft, M&M, etc campaign. I found it extremely well written, well balanced and well produced.

Providing a mechanics driven system for making their characters more distinctive really seemed to inspire my players to make more interesting PCs. Of course, some GM supervision is required.

I highly recommend this product as being an outstanding product from an outstanding company. Quality, through and through.

Really interesting stuff in here, but has the potential to heavily munchkin-ize your campaign.

This is one of the more useful products I've purchased for the d20 system. It brings in a complete set of traits, positive and negative, to a system that badly needs more refinement in character generation. A very welcome product. Warning: Make sure your players all agree to use this add-on. It's not fair to the other players for your character to have all these goodies and they don't get any!

This is a very effective way to expand your D20 Modern game. It opens up an entirely new area in character creation and encourages roleplaying rather than wargaming, a constant problem with my gaming group. To anyone who wants to expand their character creation and add a lot of ways for the GM to integrate the characters into the game, I heartily recommend this book!

Excellent product for the gaming line to flesh out characters. No complaints, just beware of the power gamer with this one.

A well balanced approach to characters with "character". I easily feel like I got my money's worth.

Great resource if you love the Ads/Disads system of GURPS and want to incorporate it into d20 Modern. My players love the opportunity to beef up their 1st-level characters, and the flaws help them add personality and distinctiveness to their PCs.

Even if you don't want to make a "flawed hero", there are "heroic code" flaws in here that give you points in exchange for accepting the burdens of Mercy, Honesty, and other virtues. Hey, if you're going to be a nice guy, you may as well get points for it!

I loved it for fantasy, and I love it more for modern. This is what every Wizards product is missing. White-wolf was great almost exclusively because of the merits and flaws. Now you can bring that system to the universally applicable, ultracool d20 modern system.

A nice way to flesh out d20 characters and make them more interesting and distinctive.