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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8923953" data-attributes="member: 18">We don't know-know, but it seems highly likely given it was described as being fundamentally similar to the SJ approach, and I think if it was different, they'd highlight that as the SJ approach didn't seem that well-regarded. Whatever the format it was probably locked in many months ago, because producing a slipcover three-book set has to involve a hell of a lot more planning than producing a one-book format. So it may be from before SJ was released even.Basically the situation at the end of Faction War, which Monte Cook swears he intended to be temporary, is made permanent. Sigil, instead of being this wildly diverse and colourful city where the Factions ineptly-but-enthusiastically run various parts of it (often in conflict/overlap with each other), becomes a city where a handful of three-letter-acronym organisations which run everything, which gives it a strangely &quot;small, insular Midwestern city&quot; vibe instead of the &quot;wild cosmic-crossroads metropolis&quot; vibe it had before.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8923953, member: 18"] We don't know-know, but it seems highly likely given it was described as being fundamentally similar to the SJ approach, and I think if it was different, they'd highlight that as the SJ approach didn't seem that well-regarded. Whatever the format it was probably locked in many months ago, because producing a slipcover three-book set has to involve a hell of a lot more planning than producing a one-book format. So it may be from before SJ was released even. Basically the situation at the end of Faction War, which Monte Cook swears he intended to be temporary, is made permanent. Sigil, instead of being this wildly diverse and colourful city where the Factions ineptly-but-enthusiastically run various parts of it (often in conflict/overlap with each other), becomes a city where a handful of three-letter-acronym organisations which run everything, which gives it a strangely "small, insular Midwestern city" vibe instead of the "wild cosmic-crossroads metropolis" vibe it had before. [/QUOTE]

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