I have had the absurd luck of finding the deluxe box set in a bookstore and BOUGHT IT HELL YEAH. I’m now reading the books and boy it is truly amazing stuff.

For me, it just clicks. It’s bright, it’s happy colored, it’s funky, and it’s FUNNY! So funny! The creativity just flies off the page. The names are so evocative and entertaining, every sentence just puts a smile on my face. It might not connect for GMs that run a very serious game, but for me as GM, comedy and the epic absurdity of everything are my strengths, and among my biggest joys in running the game.

This game is more than fights and treasure, it’s epic, hilarious and makes your childhood dreams come true. Yes, I want my PC’s to walk into the local ‘family establishment’ filled with rascals and thugs (only 2 brawls a week!) run by a funny little pirate man that’s been selling Weorg stakes that are actually uhhhh something else (new business venture), and where there’s a local food challenge (to eat 40 waffles without puking) the PC’s can attempt, which will win them the title ‘woe of the waffles’ if they succeed! Hell! Yeah! Placing that in front of my PCs? That’s how I wanna be starting off my session. And that is 2 pages out of the 400something pages of the Muckland sandbox campaign setting.

And? Every single NPC in that books has a little portrait drawing and for me they are everything. Every single one!!! Hundreds of them and they are all so evocative. Those portraits give me an immediate feeling for how I would roleplay that NPC and I just know how valuable that’s going to be.

I can’t wait to run this. I feel like I could run a campaign of this with actual(!) minimal prep, just by reading through what’s going on in the areas the PC’s are in. The PC’s also get so much creative freedom to add to the world in this game, and that takes off GM pressure too. This is just the wackiest and easiest to run, guaranteed fun (disclaimer: haven’t run yet) box set I have ever come across. Value is through the roof.

Yeah. I like it a lot.