Just got these. Haven't used them in a game yet, but played with them a little right out of the box. Great idea. They seem to stick well to the new laminated Paizo MapPacks. I'm planning on using the trees in particular to cover traps, ambushes, tunnels, etc. that I don't want players to see until the Search. I'll have to throw so decoys on there too so a tree-cling isn't an automatic give away.
Hopefully the line line will do well and they'll be able to offer more variety in the future - fires, ices, crystals, underground flora. etc.
Very organic, realistic feel - some clumpiness of buildings, some open spaces. Clusters of buildings along roads, even outside the city proper. Just the right amount of sprawl. Don't know anything about the setting, but I like the maps.
Not complaining but there's an awful lot of water. Some good rock and sand tiles but quite a few shore, desert stream, and open water tiles too. And a little sailboat! 3D object include: long and short dock/bridges (stone on the reverse), a adobe brick/plaster building, a adobe/plaster stairway, a wagon, a market stall, a sarcophagus, and an extra little piece to go under a table (probably to make up for the one that was "missing" from the last set). All-in-all, nice stuff. I like the 3D but this set might be a wee bit heavy on 3D and light on desert tiles. With the little building, I'm kinda' hoping the upcoming city pack will have several 3D buildings.
Good description of a town, lots of buildings and NPCs detailed, lots of plot hooks. Very few stats so it can be used with any edition. My minor gripes are these:
* It's above-ground. I was kinda' hoping for a nice underground dwarven city.
* The city has a less-than-intuitive shape and some poorly utilized spaces. There is this big chunk of unwalled space that would have been easier for the builders to capture than to build around ... things like that irk me.
* The big fold out map has a mini-scale rectangular dwarven tavern on one side and a 1sq=20' map of the city on the other side. Nice enough looking map, but I was hoping for more battlemat.
So not a bad product, but not a must-have either, IMHO.
Nice selection of items, but I've grown to really like Vincent Dutrait's work as well... kinda' like when somebody other than WAR did the cover of the last Eberron book. The drawings all look a little puffy. Will this be the Item Card artist from now on, or will we be seeing a variety of artists, or was Vincent just unavailable for this one but will be back for the rest? (I'm hoping for the latter.)
Very cool. Leaves me wanting more. Very first-edition feel; lots of potential stories, lots of questions, some of which I know will be answered later, in other products, and some I suspect will just hang out there, tantalizingly unanswered ... Very cool.
Cards are beautiful and will be a lot of fun to play with BUT I'm still not wild about the random assortments and I was surprised that so many of the cards in the Hero's Hoard pack were repeats of cards in the starter set. Still, I'm happy with the set.
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