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<blockquote data-quote="mrswing" data-source="post: 8402182" data-attributes="member: 9984">A few thoughts more: the book could easily have been 100 pages longer, because many of the locations which now get two to four pages in the gazetteer section could easily be expanded to eight to even sixteen pages in some cases, just because there's so much potential for great material there. On a more negative note, the main Drow NPC family is described very extensively, but too much focuses on long-ago backstory which will not be relevant to the current situation and which PCs will never discover or, even if they do, won't really influence things at all. This is something that happens all too often in RPGs: the designers spend too much time on a colorful past and not enough on practical information that will benefit the current events and the way the PCs encounter them. I'm not saying there is no information to help you play these characters in the now of the story and&nbsp; how they can interact interestingly with the PCs, there is, but often not enough of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mrswing, post: 8402182, member: 9984"] A few thoughts more: the book could easily have been 100 pages longer, because many of the locations which now get two to four pages in the gazetteer section could easily be expanded to eight to even sixteen pages in some cases, just because there's so much potential for great material there. On a more negative note, the main Drow NPC family is described very extensively, but too much focuses on long-ago backstory which will not be relevant to the current situation and which PCs will never discover or, even if they do, won't really influence things at all. This is something that happens all too often in RPGs: the designers spend too much time on a colorful past and not enough on practical information that will benefit the current events and the way the PCs encounter them. I'm not saying there is no information to help you play these characters in the now of the story and how they can interact interestingly with the PCs, there is, but often not enough of it. [/QUOTE]

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