Got the Glorantha book yesterday and have had a quick read-through. Three
things need to be said about it:
- The contents are very good. I was actually surprised by how much new
material (including stuff from the 'works in progress', which I count as
new to official status) has been included.
- It doesn't seem to have been proofread at all. Saying this book has a
lot of typos is like saying the pope has a thing for white. Fortunately,
most of them are simple cases of bad spelling or dropped words,
irritating but survivable. A couple of badly mangled sentences and a few
lapses of logic do stand out, though.
I wouldn't mention it except that it's noticeably worse than in the rules
books, starting a bad trend.
- Finally getting to the Subject. ;-) The maps aren't terribly useful.
Given the nature of this book, it's not a big flaw.
But it _is_ imperative that upcoming regional supplements have large,
detailed maps. With lots of weird stuff on them that you can make up your
own stories about. :-)
And it seems to me that this will be impossible, given the limitations of
the trade paperback format. A good map simply can't be crammed onto those
tiny pages. :-(
The solution is of course to have fold-out maps. Unfortunately, I have no
idea how likely Issaries is to provide us with such luxuries. Anyone?
Jonas Schiött
Göteborg