I find I have a somewhat more favorable impression of the system myself, since it gives melee characters a lot of bonuses to compensate for the lack of weird special combat maneuvers.  The casters don't really even get anything except for the sorcerer and the cleric, who were previously lacking in class abilities.  I don't have any playtests though, but I mainly went for the game to get another copy of most of the SRD anyway.   (new pretty art is also kinda nice)<br/><br/><br/>I will agree that it's not as good as the full line of D&D 3.5, but I somehow doubt a single 500 page book could ever beat about 50 odd various supplements.<br/><br/><br/>But then again, that's completely and utterly off topic.  Anyone got any business they haven't resolved yet?  I think I'll be getting back to posting in the main thread tommorow.  (sorry again for the end of year delays, but I'm on vacation)