I did my research before purchasing this, so I knew what to expect. The only real question was how good the production quality would be once I got it in person. Well, it just arrived, and I'm happy to say it's great. Great enough so that I will for sure be buying some of the other battle map books by Loke. Every page is a map of its own, and if you lay the book open as a two-page spread the two maps join for an even bigger location. Nice! What I like about this assortment is twofold: 1) The variety, and 2) that so much of it is "generic." That second point sounds like an insult, but it's not. Too often I find that in an effort to be unique, battle map creators end up creating locations that are TOO unique, so unique you can only use them once. Loke wisely designed most of their maps to be highly flexible and useful in many situations. General outdoor locations -- woods, roads, snowy landscape, riverside, etc -- can be used over and over for many different scenarios. Throw down a few bits and bobs and you can make them different each time. The same holds true for indoor locations and town locations. Some throne rooms, tile floors, sewers, general caves, streets, etc. It all looks good while still being the kind of maps you can use over and over. There ARE a few locations that are a little more unique and distinctive, which you can use for special encounters. Magic circles, etc. But by and large, you can get a lot of repeated use out of most of these. The art is a bit grainy here and there (looks better in the YouTube reviews I watched), and the handful of dungeon maps are so specific they're not likely to be of much use to most -- in my opinion, it's usually best to just have some basic straight corridors and rooms -- but otherwise, this is a great package that will get lots of use at my table. In fact, I MIGHT buy a second one, since the modular nature of the design means you can slide books together to form bigger and bigger maps. I love that! Overall I'm very happy with the production quality and versatility. Loke just won themselves a customer.
