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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9084183" data-attributes="member: 11760">My hard copy just arrived by mail today. Really impressive. Larger in every dimension than a WotC D&D book, although a similar height to Skerple's Magical Industrial Revolution.Every page of this book has something useful on it.Orcs, for instance, have a few paragraphs directly addressing the problem of evil -- a.k.a. the entire online discourse around orcs over the last few years. Skerples lays out the choices -- orcs are either inherently evil created beings or are people, and as good or bad as people are generally, exhorts the reader to pick one and stick with it because mixing the two in a campaign can cause a whole lot of problems, and notes, without judgment, that the Monster Overhaul is going with "orcs are people." Now, the next time the topic comes up, I can just hit someone with this book, which elegantly and even-handedly handles the issue very neatly.Meanwhile, vampires get four pages, including a Dyson Logos-designed haunted manor house and lots and lots of random tables for generating everything about your adventure's vampire. I suspect a DM could be told "hey, we want to play a vampire adventure and we want to start playing in five minutes" and be able to pull it off in a manner satisfactory to both DM and players with this book. A pretty neat trick.</blockquote>