Just finished reading. Most of the time it was nice to read and I enjoyed it. The description of the mana lines are great and a good compilation of known mana lines in one place. With the maps: nice work. Question: are there no lines in russia and the poles? Seems to be the only places not covered.
The chapter about the True Elements called nostalgic feelings of my old Earthdawn group (good old times...). Especially the True Elements chapter of the old Earthdawn magic book. When will we get the shadowrun version of the Litany of the Elements? *g* When reading about the floating mountains I must think about the theran behemoths. And about the flying mountains of the Avatar film... I hope we can read more about them one day.
The parts about the Wuxing Towers and Karlsruhe: More of that! Nice but way to short.
Then I came to the Constructs chapter. Don't know if the constructs are meant to be taken seriously. An Astral Gate?
Also I'm not sure if we really need rules for the manipulation of mana lines. I mean, if I want that a NPC or a group of them to do some moho with a line then they do it. And I'm not sure if my players ever came to that level.
Going down to the relevant level: currently I don't see any real usage for my groups. That the corps are hunting for rare elements isn't something new. With Parageology I get more names for minerals my players can aquire for the corps. Or just another reason to doing X for a Johnson. In the end it would be irrelevant why a corp/talismonger/random other Johnson want's a piece of dirt or so. If it's orichalcum or Wertamiline... just names. They will do the job because they get paid to do the work. Going to see how the infos from this book will be incorporated in other books.
So: more down to earth fluff, less crunch.
btw: Spelling at p. 26. Dunkelz
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