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If you like listy Gamism (and, boy, do I ever) then Iron Heroes is the bomb. If Arcana Unearthed was everything that D&D should have been, Iron Heroes is everything I wanted D&D to be.
With the exception of the really nonsensical and uninspired weapons and armor lists. Where is that cool double-bladed dagger that the masked executioner chick has? I want one! Also, why are the martial arts weapons still in the game? W/o Monks, there is no benefit to unarmed fighting, so you have a bunch of shitty weapons that just happened to be exotic. I can't believe that Mike Mearls doesn't get the currency of D&D weapons, so am I missing something here? Or was the equipment section a casualty of a fast development cycle? Or what?
With the exception of the really nonsensical and uninspired weapons and armor lists. Where is that cool double-bladed dagger that the masked executioner chick has? I want one! Also, why are the martial arts weapons still in the game? W/o Monks, there is no benefit to unarmed fighting, so you have a bunch of shitty weapons that just happened to be exotic. I can't believe that Mike Mearls doesn't get the currency of D&D weapons, so am I missing something here? Or was the equipment section a casualty of a fast development cycle? Or what?
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Perhaps I will publish a more colorful weapons and armor list that folks can use with Iron Heroes. Is the whole damage reducing armor thing OGL?
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--Ben
P.S. I love the color of the book. Really not-entirely-european fantasy without being fetishistically "asian" or otherwise stupid.