A fantastic read for one of the most interesting locations. Filled with tons of great plot hooks and a very detailed description of the city itself.

I have referenced this chronicle so much it's falling apart. Chock full of inspiration and adventure ideas. I am currently running two campaigns based largely on material provided in this little book: pesh magic, 22 pages on the many markets and wonders of the capitol city, and 24 about the mysterious ruins and desert hazards that compose the rest of the nation, and watch out for the dhabbas and sand eels.

I admit, I probably would never have picked this book up otherwise, but it came bundled with my Legacy of Fire Black Friday deal. I honestly wasn't familiar with the region and the little I did know didn't grab me like some of the other regions in Golarion (Numeria, Iobaria, Kaer Maga being the ones I gravitate towards). However, after quickly flipping through this book, I saw enough to hook me and get me to read more. I have to say, like "City of Strangers", this book has enough information in it to give you ideas for countless adventures and campaigns. The region and city of Katapesh are so richly described that you want to play there. It's perfect for the classic loot the tombs/ruins dungeon crawl campaign or an entirely urban one. I loved the inventiveness of the adventure hooks seeded througout the descriptions, my favorite being

The book ends with some additional longer adventure hooks as well as a new prestige class, rules for Pesh magic, and some monsters. Some of the monsters, like the Aluum and Ghuul, off the top of my head, have already been updated. The prestige class is interesting and looks like it would work pretty well without needing any real tweaking.

So even though this is an older OGL book, it is definitely worth picking up. The authors did an excellent job of exciting me about a region that I previously was apathetic towards. I really want to use this setting now when I eventually run Frog God Games's "Death in a Painted Canyon."

The Guide to Katapesh will be a useful addition to my Legacy of Fire Campaign. Overall I thought it was well written with solid information. I would have liked to see a large fold out map similar to the Guide to Korvosa. Many of the levels for the characters in the city seem low, but that is a minor inconvenience and I can be easily fixed. I just thought it odd for a city of 200,000 plus that all the character levels presented were 10 or lower. Obviously not all of levels of characters were given like the PactMasters.

This is yet another solid resource in the Chronicle range. This book is well bound and set out with quite a bit of text. It has all the details needed to run Katapesh as a campaign or adventure setting.

For what ever reason, this book did not appeal to me like previous guide books. It seemed to be very clinical and had a lot of information as opposed to image grabbing materials. I would recommend this book to GMs running adventures in and around Katapesh.