The writing here is good, though the overall product suffers as a result of poor layout, with two books (one landscape format, the other portrait format) being shoe-horned into a single PDF. The cover of the former book is in full color, while the latter is not. Text boxes throughout both books are in full color for no obvious reason. There is lots of unused white space and distorted artwork (i.e., artwork that was poorly resized to fit the format of the respective book). Ultimately, this product is a great example of getting what you pay for with regard to layout, which is a shame because the written content itself is actually quite good.

For the most part, I like this product. I love the idea of it, a city built on the ruins of a lost civilization where the main commerce is looting the ancient ruins found underground.

My only quibble with the product is that for a city that?s been around for over a century with 5 factions fighting for both control of the city as well as for treasure from the ruins, it seems like hardly any ruins have been explored (i.e. only 3 smallish levels have been explored and only the first fully. To me your average adventuring party would have what?s shown on the maps cleared out after a few trips in. Unless each room they entered was filled with treasure, there is no way the city above could have survived on what?s been explored below.

Other than this one inconsistency though, I really the product. The city above is fairly well fleshed out, but still leaves plenty of room to make it easy to drop into any campaign you may be running.