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<blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 1305800" data-attributes="member: 10784">I agree with what GrimJesta said above.&nbsp; It is not easy to read straight through.&nbsp; I have had the Kalamar stuff since 1998 or so back in 2E days and still have not done it.&nbsp; However, if you flip through the book, as Mark said above, and look at a page, you will almost always find a spark that can lead to adventure.&nbsp; There are so many little hooks that can lead to a great adventure.&nbsp; I have been stuck for a while on the Duchy of Dodera, a nation where the position of Duke is very tenuous indeed – I think a good half dozen Dukes in the past 15 years or so, each having been ‘replaced’ by Emperor Kabori for lack of success against both dwarven insurgents and in the ongoing war with the nation of Tharggy (a nation so devastated by war that the women have taken up arms, but that is another story...or is it?).&nbsp; With just that, I can see several possibilities – a starting adventure to scout out camps of dwarven insurgents who turn out to not be so evil after all; maybe a scouting mission into Tharggy and some run-ins with their female military; maybe the latest Duke has hatched a desperate plan to either conquer Tharggy or wipe out the dwarves; maybe a huge horde of orcs is gathering in the mountains near both nations and threatens both unless the PCs can unite the defenses of both nations?And, while I do think there are too many deities, I can see the points of other that it is comparable to our own world back in the old days when there were Roman, Greek, Norse, Indian, Chinese, etc pantheons.&nbsp; Heck, I used to love my 1E Deities &amp; Demigods book (with Cthulu, by the way) – and a lot of the gods there are just similar aspects of the same god across religions.&nbsp; Well, those Cthulu guys were a bit different.BTW, my local gaming store has been doing better lately in carrying Kalamar product.&nbsp; It took months for them to get &quot;Fury in the Wastelands&quot; onto their shelves last year, while I picked up &quot;Secrets of the Alubelok Coast&quot; recently right after it came out...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NewJeffCT, post: 1305800, member: 10784"] I agree with what GrimJesta said above. It is not easy to read straight through. I have had the Kalamar stuff since 1998 or so back in 2E days and still have not done it. However, if you flip through the book, as Mark said above, and look at a page, you will almost always find a spark that can lead to adventure. There are so many little hooks that can lead to a great adventure. I have been stuck for a while on the Duchy of Dodera, a nation where the position of Duke is very tenuous indeed – I think a good half dozen Dukes in the past 15 years or so, each having been ‘replaced’ by Emperor Kabori for lack of success against both dwarven insurgents and in the ongoing war with the nation of Tharggy (a nation so devastated by war that the women have taken up arms, but that is another story...or is it?). With just that, I can see several possibilities – a starting adventure to scout out camps of dwarven insurgents who turn out to not be so evil after all; maybe a scouting mission into Tharggy and some run-ins with their female military; maybe the latest Duke has hatched a desperate plan to either conquer Tharggy or wipe out the dwarves; maybe a huge horde of orcs is gathering in the mountains near both nations and threatens both unless the PCs can unite the defenses of both nations? And, while I do think there are too many deities, I can see the points of other that it is comparable to our own world back in the old days when there were Roman, Greek, Norse, Indian, Chinese, etc pantheons. Heck, I used to love my 1E Deities & Demigods book (with Cthulu, by the way) – and a lot of the gods there are just similar aspects of the same god across religions. Well, those Cthulu guys were a bit different. BTW, my local gaming store has been doing better lately in carrying Kalamar product. It took months for them to get "Fury in the Wastelands" onto their shelves last year, while I picked up "Secrets of the Alubelok Coast" recently right after it came out... [/QUOTE]

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