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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 1103712" data-attributes="member: 518">I'm in the same boat...mixed feelings. I picked it up a few days ago and have read nearly the entire thing.I'm not a big DL fan, but I don't hate it either. I love the original trilogy of novels, liked the SAGA boxed set, hated the original railroad modules, had the Tales of the Lance box,but have never gamed in the setting proper. I was looking forward to the book though as I'm always up for a good campaign setting. After reading through it I found myself asking "now what the hell am I supposed to do ?". Most campaign setting books I've bought, like the FRCS, Midnight, the LGG and even non-setting products like AU have set the 'ol creative juices flowing. I hardly got that feeling at all from this book. There's alot of advice on how DL differs from a "normal" D&D campaign, but I though most of it was very vague,  and such a  "high level" overview that it's not very user friendly for someone who is not too familiar w/ DL.That's my real beef with the book, it seems to be written w/ an existing DL fan in mind, and it's too high level, delving mostly in theories and perceptions instead of nuts and bolts of what the DL world is like from an inhabitants view.The FRCS on the other hand , was brilliant at both giving the high level overview and the nuts and bolts of how your PC would see Faerun through his/her eyes and also was full of hooks, plot ideas and concrete info for the DM on how to run a FR game.The geography section is very poorly laid out..there is no full size map, the regions are broke up over several pages, and the regions being discussed are out of order with the map section on a particular page from what I can tell. Good info, but it's pain when you are reading about X, and the Map for X is ten pages further into the chapter.Instead Map Y is on the same page as the description for X.  ?Big fonts, BIG margins. Hardly the bargain the FRCS is. Artwork, while obviously subjective is IMO not so hot overall, much of it downright poor, with a few really good pieces. Certainly not on par historically w/ DL products (Jeff Easely's few pieces in the DLCS are awful as has been most of his 3E era art... the man seems to have "lost it").The crunch is pretty good for the most part. Some balance issues I'm sure, but I'm not one to pay much attention that stuff...I work it out as neccessary in-game.The book IS a really good primer on the DragonLance Saga history overview & has some cool crunch rules/spells/ stuff, but overall the book is not terribly well suited for the DM who is not very familiar w/ the setting. Because of that, for me it's definitely not worth the premium price. I haven't given up hope..I'll check out the AoM book from SP to see if it will address my needs, but so far, I'm not too happy w/ the DL "Rebirth"That's my 2 cents...or steel pieces <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" /></blockquote>

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