This product is passable, but not better than that. It's overpriced for what it is, and the content is mediocre in a couple of ways. First, many people in the rpg world have pointed out that what DMs need is material that they couldn't think of on their own. However, in this product, many encounters are so generic that you could have easily just thought up something equally good up on the fly. Second, for my taste, the encounters have a video-game feel where the primary upshots are mechanical, not narrative. As one example, there's an encounter which tells you that a funeral procession passes down the street near the PCs. If the PCs are "reverent" they gain a luck point, and if they join the funeral procession and are especially reverent, they get even more mechanical bonuses. That's all there is to it, and that encounter is fairly typical of what you get in this product.
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