While this is not by any means a bad book, let's be clear what it's NOT. This is NOT a book that will help you design your own planet and its continents, seas and weather patterns like Richard Baker's excellent World Builder's Guidebook for AD&D 2nd Edition. If you want to create a planet from scratch, THAT is the book you need! THIS book provides a lot of good material with which to fill your campaign world, but it is definitely not a "how-to" book for designing campaign settings. Instead you get a great deal of material on arms and armor (nice art and d20 compatible statistics for each piece), stones, gems, flowers, herbs, metals and trees (very complete coverage on these; too much, some might say.) There are also some unique charts giving unusual info such as:
- the tensile strength of various metals
- the melting points of metals
- materials resistance to crushing
- the weight of various things (i.e. bail of hay, etc.)
- rope strengths
- land productivity
- cost of construction for buildings
- horses
- water spring productivity
- ice strength
- ship cargo tonnage weights
- measurements, weights and volume of various things
So you do get quite a big of potentially useful material... just not what you might think going by the book's title. If these things interest you, by all means get it. If, on the other hand, you just want to design your own campaign setting/world, get a copy of World Builder's Guidebook instead.
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