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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 131142" data-attributes="member: 546">Mongoose's first city book, Skraag: City of the Orcs, was eagerly awaited by my group, as we were in the middle of an all-orc campaign when the product was announced. But then we got the book, and it was a huge disappointment. Calling it a city supplement is a joke, really, as the map is nothing more than a bare-bones (and crudely drawn, to boot!) village and much space is wasted on an uninteresting history and religion that, IMO, should have been devoted to actual locations and NPCs to truly make the place useful to DMs as an adventure and shopping destination. Instead, the book reads more like the "Slayer's Guide to Orcs" than a proper adventuring locale. The history and religion sections only interfere with the setting's alleged "plug and play" portability. We needed less info on things like history and religion (best left to the DM) and more info on where to go, what to buy and who to meet.Skraag: City of the Orcs was $14.95 completely wasted in our opinion (as was the money spent on the Slayer's Guides to Hobgoblins, our first and last Slayer's Guide purchase, which gave us barely anything of use outside of the two banner spells). Stormhaven, a floating city, is to be the next release in Mongoose's "Cities of Fantasy" series, and we are less than enthused after reading Skraag. We were hoping for so much more from this series, expecting less fanciful and more portable, detailed locations like Geanavue, Lankhmar, etc.Regarding other Mongoose products, we have really been enjoying the Quintessential handbooks so far (d20 fan fave Mike Mearls in particular did a nice job on the Rogue book). Were we at all interested in naval warfare, we would most certainly pick up the excellent Seas of Blood over FFG's comparatively weaker Seafarer's Handbook. Mongoose's product line thus far is a mixed-bag of good crunchy bits and bad fluff. Hopefully, we will see less fluff and more crunch in future products. We are not so much concerned with the Quintessential series (shaping up nicely), as much as nearly everything else in the pipeline... Naturally, we'll still give everything a fair look, but methinks Mongoose's haste to ensure quantity is causing a lack of quality that can only hurt the company's reputation with d20 gamers in the future. It's already hurt it with us.</blockquote>

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