I really like this product, there is a LOT of information in it for designing maps used for hex crawls. And I am starting to make use of it. Up front I want to let you know that the tile is slightly misleading. It is multisystem, period. Actually it is system neutral.

This is not a book that you will enjoy reading cover to cover, rather it is designed to be dipped into in for the information you need at a specific time. The problem is, until I had read a good chunk, I hadn't realized that. The book is in desperate need of a solid introduction with practical guidance on how to use it. Oh, it has an introduction with some useful information, but it doesn't tell you how to use the material to put together a hex or a series of hexes. Rather it spends its time describing the table of contents (repeatedly), and overviews the physical layout of each topic.

Using the author's Toolkit metaphor, it is like giving someone a fully stocked tool kit with a page of instructions that essentially say "We're glad you want to build a house, many of these tools will be useful to you. Use those that you need." Followed by a sheet of instructions for each tool in isolation, one for a hammer, one for a toe nailing jig, and one for a jackhammer. Each one includes "Don't use this if you don't want to, don't poke this in your eye, do use this if it sounds interesting, you can change your mind, ..." These repeated statements make it tedious to read, and the lack of an overarching design process makes it hard to know where to start.

I was expecting more along the lines of "These are the seven decisions you need to make up front. Then for each hex you design you need to do this, then that, and then you may want to do a couple of these other things. Repeat." For me, an explicit tree structure would have been better than a flat list of topics.

One minor quibble, what's with all the icons? Every time there is a key word in bold it is accompanied by a tiny, almost illegible, icon. Personally I find them distracting and of zero value. "Keep in Mind" in bold by itself tells me to keep something in mind. The associated tiny thought cloud adds nothing.

In all, I am satisfied with the product now that I'm understanding how it is used and how I need to navigate it. There is a lot of good, useful information in here, just be prepared to spend time understanding how to effectively read it to use it. Personally, I'm pulling out the key tables into my Obsidian Vault so that I can lay them out how they make sense to me.

There is nothing really wrong with this, there just isn't much to it. I would have loved to have seen much more information and detail on ecology, habitats, & especially the descriptions that it keeps encouraging us to use. Perhaps for the next offering, something this length but focused on just one of the three terrains? If you can get it on sale it is an OK value.

Most of these one pagers are dry, mundane, and useful. This one is halarious! Seriously? "The Slobbering Pillar"? Took me a while to stop laughing, and I'm still chuckling. Honestly, half of these I could never use because I couldn't say them with a straight face. But I know there are groups out there who are less straight-laced and many if not most of these would be right up their alley. And who knows, even the slobbering pillar might give me an idea for a room someday. Nice job, thank you.