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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malladin" data-source="post: 2115931" data-attributes="member: 8230">I think the Dragonmech world is a lot better developed than people seem to give it credit for.  There is perhaps a problem with the basic book not giving quite enough information for you to start a working campaign, but the latest book, 2nd age of walkers properly fleshes out the world, showing that a lot of the cultures involved are very well thought out and are interesting to both read about and play. However, I have no insight into iron kingdoms, save for a close gaming friend of mine (and cultural archeology graduate) who said the cultures were a bit contrived.  The cultures in dragonmech do feel quite whole and organic in this sense, but you do perhpas need the 2nd age book to fully apreciate this. I hate to 'diss' a produt that I've never read, but I think the cultures in Dragonmech are actually one of the strong points of the game; they're quite different from typical fantasy cultures and really make the world come to life, IMO.  I'm not trying to say that IK is bad, I don't realy know.  My only point is that the one criticism I've heard is something that I believe to be a strength of dragonmech. Cheerio, Ben</blockquote>