As an old school gamer I like products like this. The basic premise of 'what would the 2nd edition of AD&D have looked like if Gygax stayed on at TSR and was in charge", is neat and plausable to me as presented here. Though one very important part of this thinking that wasn't addressed (in my humble opinion), is what would Gygax have done to bring the Unearthed Arcana material into better compatability with the earlier Players Handbook and Dungeon Masters Guide. Not to be nit picky though, I like the product but I probably won't use it for gaming, because its so close to the original, I'll just stick with Gygax's published AD&D when running a 1st AD&D game. A side note: I like alot the Necromancer, which I will use!