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Well I usually don't bother with doing a review below 4 stars unless I feel strongly about it. I gave this 3 stars but felt it just barely crossed the line into 3 stars territory. Take my critique with a grain of salt as admittedly I could be cheap or petty here. The quality of the four maps is actually good. The side view of the skyrealm is well done and very evocative and the top view is informative. But the only difference between the player and GM maps is the inclusion of numbers on the buildings to be used with the description key. Your players won't really be gleaning too much from noticing the numbers. Next the descriptions of the buildings I found to very vague and unhelpful. Many times you don't get an idea of how many floors a building has or how many rooms. Are there interesting details such as furniture or statuary? Architectural details? Your guess would be as good as mine. Some may like this freeform quality in their products but for me it just comes off unfinished. Without the inclusion of maps of the individual buildings you have just the descriptions. To me that really just leaves you with a really nice line drawing of a floating island. You could conceivably use the other building maps that Arsenale Shipworks sell but that would just be more money and they would not always fit with this product. $2.99 is not much in the grand scheme of things but is more than I feel this product is worth. $1.50 is what I would pay tops but .99 is closer to the mark. Include more floor plans, NPC or creature write ups, a more extensive history and I would pay $10 or $20. Heck, I would $5 for more differentiated GM and player's maps. So get it if you really like like putting in extra work but you would be just as well to note the idea and do your own skyrealm.
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