Re: Second Age Elder Race information coming out

From: donald_at_-VMShQMQcSSe5gEKlWUzJGfKPQGkzKl9M0BF9VqA-RWDxzuN2KTs76AuVwf398FgjEv2W
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:57:41 GMT


In message <32llf31uvu02rul0vo3tkf0gtpc2iq9m2c_at_pGVQXyvG_Nyw-4nknnvxKxfHMNnQHbq9Ng2Ul_iGHoyTLhfGIorEErVQH46B3us2waHpEhake03HbAokIIcgjsAFRDW40JMCty4Y4uBSk6_W.yahoo.invalid> Nick Eden writes:
>On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:04:30 GMT, you wrote:

>>There's some good stuff in some of the Mongoose publications but others
>>are so RQ slanted as to contain little that hasn't been published
>>elsewhere cheaper. While they have an ambitious publishing schedule the
>>actual content is probably lower than the Moon Design one for HQ. By
>>going for hardbacks and heavy glossy paper the 96 page Vol. 1 of Cults
>>costs about the same as the 112 page Under the Red Moon. The latter has
>>descriptions of about twice as many cults and an index with the difference
>>being made up of excessively wide margins and the rules for various spells.
>
>Cults 1 did strike me as particularly weak, since it turned out that
>almost all the cults we've heard of are almost exactly the same in the
>3rd age and the 2nd age.
>
>Magic Of was rather better.

Cults 2 was even worse - I didn't see anything new in it at all. So it stayed on the store shelf.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/

           

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