The Maztica Campaign Guide does a wonderful job in both giving a solid grounding in the lore of the setting for those unfamiliar with the AD&D 2E version as well as updating the setting for D&D 5E. This was particularly important to me because of the huge changes implied for Maztica due to first the Spellplague in 4E and then the Second Sundering in 5E. I used the guide to create a surrounding setting for running The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan from Tales from the Yawning Portal in a 5E Forgotten Realms game.
I did, however, occasionally find the pages hard to read - the thin serif font on a white page with a piece of (lovely) monochrome background art looked nice, but hurt my eyes to look at (particularly on a screen) after a time. I did print a few pages for quick reference at my table and they looked better - but the font could still have benefitted from being a bit thicker. A lay-out scheme more akin to the WotC house style would probably have worked better.
The Maztican character races, classes, spells, items and other options were well handled and appreciated, as were the (few) new monster statblocks and the sample adventure at the end. Some of the subraces were a bit underwhelming compared to their 2E counterparts, but this is a minor complaint. The map at the end of the book is the one big low point for me - it's very blurry, low resolution, done in the 3E style - I suspect it's reused from somewhere. I've seen better custom maps of 5E Maztica (and indeed, used one), and it would've done the authors well to commission such a map.
If there was one thing really missing from the guide that I would have very much appreciated, it would be a random encounter table, something keyed to the unique Maztican setting, using both MM monsters and monsters from TWC.
However, all of that is irrelevant when you consider the depth and breadth of this updated version of Maztica and that the book is FREE. So who am I to criticize anything, really?
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