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Like most of the other ground sets from Lord Zsezse Works, the desert set features good-looking artwork in a set of extremely predictable (if you’ve seen other LZW ground sets) patterns. Quite frankly, the notion of a brick road through a desert (which constitutes about half of this set) is rather odd, especially when the bricks seem to have been made from a non-local rock or clay. The other half of the set focuses on ruins, and the results here are more consistent with the desert feel. Clearly, most of the ruins must be the mere tops of walls that run deep below the sand, since no foundations are in evidence. Nice touches include a mound of sand perhaps created by some burrowing creature, a very small oasis, some altars and pillars, and the skeleton of some enormous horned beast, perhaps a desert-dwelling dragon (though it has no wing bones, so I don’t know about that). This set is probably best used to stage scenes in an area that was not always a desert, but has been overtaken by the sands after centuries of neglect. If the set were limited to the roads, I’d probably give it only three stars, but the ruins half of the product and the excellent artwork lift it up to four. (This review pertains to updated version, February 2011.)
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