Stahlseele wrote:All in all, on a 1 to 10, what would you give this book frank?
OK, the good parts:
Nice cleanup of Amazonia
Makes me want to go to South America
Provides sufficient plot hooks to keep several gaming groups doing completely different stuff for years.
Discusses enough nuts and bolts issues to allow a campaign to happen. Maps, populations, border crossings, motivation, etc.
The bad parts:
Fails to make Aztlan make any sense.
The entire first twenty pages are a confusing montage of random snippets that no clearly developer actually groomed into a chapter or two.
Editing mistakes abound, you have to pretend you're reading a first edition product.
The actual mechanics (few as there are) are for 3rd edition, and they are in no kind of order and often as not don't make sense anyway.
So yeah, I'd give it a 7. it really is a shame. Had it actually had an editor go through the thing and spent some more time hacking 1-3 coherent chapters out of the random bundle of essays at the beginning it could have easily been an 8 or 9. I don't think fixing Aztlan was ever in the cards. Whoever wrote that section clearly just wanted to recapitulate the nonsense that had already gone down.
Actually seems as if Fexes is doing errata on stuff we can tell him is wrong and how to correct it too.
And we seem to be getting an index too!
Welcome, to IronHell.
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