: One question: How do you feel it handles individual
: combat?
: Realistic in RPGs has a nasty tendancy to make characters
: -too- frail, which d20 rules may temper in this book.
: If so, that's a good thing. Sure, people die disgustingly
: easily at times, but it seems to take a pretty stout
: blow to take a veteran member of the Legion, or the
: Black Company for that matter, out quickly. That's my
: impression, anyway.
It's been a while since I've played with it (end of 2004), but I seem to recall it being pretty brutal in the realism stakes. There were ways for better (veteran) characters to avoid the worst of damage but they'd still pick up some nasty injuries on a critical hit or somesuch. I didn't have a single death during testing, but I had a fair few character re-defining injuries.
