It's good stuff. While this book has a little bit of rpg philosphy in it, the majority of the content is practical advice and inspirational random tables. Not all of the random tables suit my taste, but there are enough pieces I like that it's worth my time to take what I want for my own tables. The "Viridian" fantasy language section is something I was initially skeptical about but now appreciate as a convenient time-saver. Thinking of new words can be hard; this makes it easier. The art is overall high quality and varied in style. A previous reviewer claims that there are "naked boobs in every picture or so", but that isn't exactly true. I did a quick count- including the cover I think there are 30 artistic illustrations (perhaps representing the author's 30 years experience?) and three bonus maps. Of these 30 there are five illustrations with titties but four of those depict a female in an obvious position of power. The attitute of the art is imo feminist rather than sexist. One thing that would add value to this product for me would be if it came with an additional pdf of the book in a single-column big-text format for easier reading on a cell phone, but there's nothing wrong with it as-is. I could make the same request of practically every publisher here.
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