Disclaimer: Here I will only talk about the setting and will only judge it because rules in «Engel» are totally awful by default. They make this game literally unplayable and deserve no more than 1 star of 5.
«Codex Urbanis» is a fairly average book. In most of it, the illustrations are quite unimpressive, and in some places the layout has gone bad. Reading chapters about the free cities of the Diadochi and the order in them is often not very interesting, there is a lot of information, but it is somehow dryly presented. If the dense Middle Ages reigns on the territory of the church, then in free cities we have a conditional nineteenth century with its slums and child labor, which is also not very good, but already better. Also, the authors of this book finally remembered that the Dreamseed is still the main threat in the setting, and it would be nice to dedicate a separate chapter to it and its creatures, in which they somewhat expanded the local bestiary and threw even more questions that would remain unanswered. The chapter is presented in the form of notes from a conference where fighters with local wickedness exchanged experiences, and this is probably the most interesting part of the book, but alas, the shortest.
Also, in the "Codex" authors promised to publish a book on heretical cults in the future (here they were again touched only in passing), and it also clearly implied some work about a direct confrontation between the Church and the League of Urbanists. But all this was already not destined to come true, because on this thing «Engel» actually ended and finally died, both as RPG game and franchise.
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