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Worthy of comparisons to Greyhawk and FR !

5/5

If you've purchased any of Paizo's other products you're well aware they go the extra mile to put together great products. Suffice to say this is gorgeous as usual. It’s clear the setting is going to provide a deep, deep well that you’ll be able to pull from plenty of times before running dry.
The character section has lots of fluff, not much crunch (rules). The roles for each of the races and classes are well thought out. The human populace still dominates and a vast array of different human cultures is provided that will make for great role playing opportunities.
The Timeline provides plenty of interesting disasters and celestial events to mine for adventure hooks. There are lost empires and evil tyrants locked safely away (ha!) to cause some mischief.
The nation descriptions are the meat of the text. There are obvious stand-ins for ancient Egypt, Arabia, deepest darkest Africa, and even flavors of the Far East. These stand-ins are familiar enough to DM’s and Players that they can jump into a campaign or adventure and immediately know the style/feel of play. Having these familiar locales will make it easy for newer DM’s and players to start playing right away. It also will facilitate more of the traditional “pulp” style adventures to be available in the setting if that floats your boat. (down the river into the deepest jungles…)
I’ve always had a fondness in my heart for the cleric class so I was interested to see more details for the deities beyond what’s already been published. I wasn’t disappointed in the write-ups as they gave a good flavor to each of the deities. I could easily see playing any of the good/neutral clerics and could definitely see DM’ing the evil folk as well. I would have liked asingle feat thrown in for each much like in the character section, just to add a bit of crunch. Guess you have to save *something* for the hardcover though!


Lovely service piece with some caveats

3/5

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My wife was just thrilled that I was able to locate one of these. Our neighbors the Johnson's have one on their dining hutch and Mrs. Johnson makes no bones about pointing it out whenever we have gin rummy night at their house.

Unfortunately there were some *small* issues. My wife decided to decant some wine into the Grail for service at one of our dinner parties. Well, let's just say the result was *not* what we expected! Yuck! Luckily we were able to get the blood stains out of the tablecloth but that's the last time we do that!

As long as you stick with mixed nuts and chips, this is a great serving piece. We also found that our vanilla wafers have an especially robust taste to them when served out of the grail. YMMV.