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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraith" data-source="post: 2011440" data-attributes="member: 5686">A Magical Society: Ecology and Culture is another book in this series dedicated to building a world from scratch.The interior is very nice to look at with large, detailed borders and parchment backgrounds to all pages. This does however, reduce the amount of text on each page. Illustrations are well done and the diagrams that explain various concepts are appropriately done.  I especially like the scenes of various parts of a world as things like that are rarely shown in RPG books (even in world building books, action scenes seem compulsory).The book is divided up into 2 main sections and an appendix. There are also three different sections on mapping your world. The two main sections cover ecology and culture (hence the name) and give extremely detailed and well researched information on the topics. Just by reading through these sections, with no mention at all to world building. I can see how I can make a world much more realistic. After each topic is presented, the book explains how to apply this to world building.Then follows a mapping section to explain how to apply the information to your maps. A minor quibble I have with the mapping sections is that the explanatory maps are located at the end of the section when they would be more usefully on the page opposite the explanation of the map itself.It does take a while to get your head around some of the information and this book is deferentially not for casual reading (at least for the first time).A Magical Society: Ecology and is a lot more abstract than Expeditious Retreat Press' last offering A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe, It is more a book full of information that you apply later than a direct tool for world building. Still it is extremely useful and is a must buy for prospective world builders who have not spent hundreds of hours already researching to topic. For those who have done the research, A Magical Society: Ecology and Culture a great quick reference book that saves having to wade around for the information you need.Especially fun was the information on magiovores (creatures that feed off magic), they will be showing up in my game shortly!</blockquote>

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