I just pulled my copy out of storage where it had been for about 20 years. A quick review reminded me why I liked it so much. It seemed so well put together compared to some of the other products that were out there and available at the time. It was what we aspired to for our own home games.
There was very little that I did not steal from it...blue booking became especially popular with some of the more ambitious players. It permitted the addition of a whole other layer of complexity to the world we were creating.
I would like the see the characters updated for the new edition and to see how they developed in the intervening years. the character builds were not that complex but the accompanying descriptions/write-up are what kept me coming back.
