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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charles Rampant" data-source="post: 6759859" data-attributes="member: 32659">I agree with dmdcdubs that the artwork is pretty ropey, and I think that it compares poorly on that front with equivalently priced geek books (especially Warhammer books, which cost about the same and are about the same size, but have vastly more art of higher quality). It should be noted that I think that Warhammer books are overpriced, a qualm that I equally have for SCAG. However, the writing is really good; I've found the place descriptions to be full of flavour, evoke images in the mind and give me a reason to want to steer some players towards the location in question. I especially like the fact that they avoided a formula; though the 3e FRCS was a monster beast, it was also really dry, in part because of the formulaic nature of each entry. The SCAG, by contrast, does a good job of mentioning the interesting things about each place without feeling the need to say the exact same things about them. An interesting example was the way that it will mention 'X place doesn't have great examples of Y, unlike place Z' - but they won't repeat that information in the entry for Z, since that would be dull. Nicely done. They did the same for the religion section, and I particularly enjoyed the way that they made me feel that a LG sailor might maintain a shrine to Umberlee without qualms.My favourite lines thus far have to be these: "Ironmaster is built in these spires and into the walls of the canyon, the tunnels and towers strung together by high bridges and cliff-side walkways. To hear Storn talk of the place, you would think that dwarves scrabbling about at such heights through the open aid was as normal as badgers in a burrow, but I don't mind saying that I set aside my ale after he spoke of it." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Can we have a whole book narrated just by the Dwarf?</blockquote>

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