When you are a GM designing an encounter, having the level as a rough guide to the creature's power is an exceptionally useful feature. The fact that level was completely divorced from a creature's actual power on the battlefield is a problem with earlier editions, and I am glad RMU has fixed that problem.

The core of the matter in the beta was that a Golem bascially just can bash things and the combat challenge from this is very different to the ways a Shard can kill you. In the beta the Shard got a massive discount on the powerful abilities of a shard since else a player with Shard character could not afford the Shard abilities.

My personal opinion is that the design goal of players being able to play even legendary monsters and having level as challenge rating are concepts that does not mix well. If RMU really has managed to nail the issue and improve the balance of cost system for creatures well enough for it to start to work, I would be delighted, but the evidence for RMU solving this huge design challenge is still waiting to be presented.

We have not been shown any sample monsters using the revised rules, and the problems that was discovered during the beta required IMHO big changes.

Given the good development of the rules presented so far compared to the beta we hopefylly will get something that is way better than what was presented in the beta, but I expect people hoping level equals challenge rating will get very disapointed.

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My take on this is that in real life it is quite trivial to take a swing at somebody sprinting past you. Ranged attacks on somebody moving quickly is different ballpark, but melee attacks against a running target is not a big deal.

The runners movement mass mean it takes real effort for the runner to not be on spot where I am aiming. If the runner does a skill check that benefit from movement like acrobatics or jumping we can discuss if the penalty due to pace should apply, but for a dodge I really don't see why these should stack unless the runner has enough AP to pay for both things.

My RMFRP C&M has it p10, under the "Habitat" section.

Deer: (f)-(—),(GIOZ),(—),(T)-2

A deer may be found in any climate but frigid ones, in any special location, in any water source location but glaciers/snowfields, tropical islets/reefs/atolls, oceans, or deserts, in any terrain, and locations with any kind of vegetation but tundras.
It's "easy" to meet one in any of the locations where it lives.