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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haiiro" data-source="post: 2268459" data-attributes="member: 1891">I bought the core book on a whim when it first came out, and devoured it on a series of plane flights shortly thereafter. It's one of the most engaging, best-written, well-illustrated and just downright enjoyable setting books I've ever read. Whenever DragonMech comes up on the boards, I pitch for it -- because it's so darned cool! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I haven't read The Second Age of Walkers or Steam Warriors yet (though they're on the shelf, waiting their turn!), but I was somewhat disappointed with the Mech Manual. Many of the mech  illustrations didn't line up with the descriptions, and almost none of them gave me a sense of scale or majesty -- something the core book illos were great at doing. The writing was also fairly mediocre, especially when stacked up against the core book and Shardsfall Quest. That said, I still read it cover to cover, and it was still a pretty neat book.Hopefully TSAoA and SW are better than the MM, even though they are also group-author projects (unlike the core book at SQ, which were sole-authored by Goodman himself). As for chances to play the darned thing, my group wasn't interested -- though I do have a DragonMech event slated for GenCon. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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