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The Great City Campaign Setting $12.99
Publisher: 0one Games
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by Malcolm M. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 10/17/2008 01:27:35

It's the strangest thing. The major appeal of 0one Games' Great City product line is that it offers a fully-mapped fantasy city that Game Masters can finally make their own. A few optional labels are included with the maps to offer guidance and/or inspiration -- but for the most part, 0one's great gift to GMs was to say, "Here, take these maps and bring them to life in your own unique way".

And now, we have the Great City Campaign Setting, completely filled in and fully detailed for us -- which makes it effectively the same as Greyhawk, the City of the Invincible Overlord, Raven's Bluff, Ptolus, Bard's Gate, Barakus, Yggsburgh, Altdorf -- and any of the dozens of other published fantasy cities available to rpg gamers that you'd care to name.

Frankly, I don't get it. This product basically takes the one thing about the Great City which makes it unique, and removes it. Buying this product is rather like buying a coloring book with all of the pages already colored in for you. I can't shake the feeling that it entirely misses the point.

Technically, the book is as good as anything 0one puts out. Nice production values, layout, and artwork.

The authors' constant misuse of the term "empirical" throughout made me wince a little on their behalf -- and I found myself remembering Inigo Montoya's famous line from "The Princess Bride" -- "That word ... I do not think it means what you think it means" -- but the truth is, most readers are unlikely to care. We live in a text-message age where even vowels are too much trouble.

In their defense, the authors do show spirit and a clear love of their material. There's nothing glaringly wrong here on a content level, and if you want your Great City pre-made for you, you could do far worse than this --

-- but this Campaign Setting still feels like it misses the entire point of the Great City by the very fact that it exists.



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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