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Rating: 7.26 / Ranking: 80

These ratings are based on 24 ratings with 1.97 average weight and 1 reviews.

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Rating	User	Comments
10 / 10	neastrith	Brilliant! Beautifl! Chock full of story potential! READ IT NOW!
10 / 10	eruditus	One of the best setting books ever devised. It's everything you need to run a really fantastic gritty game and it holds with it an intriguing way to map your campaigns by players adding to the dictionary. If you like Dark Sun (and not necessarily D&D) this is a MUST HAVE. It's only weakness, in my opinion, is the reliance on Sorcerer.
10 / 10	iago	Bar none, the finest setting book I've ever owned or read. Don't let the idea of it as a Sorcerer game send you away from this fine product; you could easily adapt it to nearly any system friendly to swords & sorcery. A sexy, sexy beast.
10 / 10	Jim DelRosso	It's a supplement that, in my opinion, surpasses the game it was written for (though I know Judd'll disagree with that ;) ). This thing is evocative and primal and beautiful and absolutely lets you know how to sit down and make a great game with it.
9 / 10	Simple Man	One of the most interesting setting books I've ever gotten my hands on. This book and Sorcerer & Sword make Sorcerer a very worthwhile purchase. Higher on style than substance, those who want a geography of Marr'd will find the setting lacking.
9 / 10	Emprint	The Bible, Conan and John Carter blended with amazing style and creativity. Lots of fun, and a novel way of presenting a setting.
9 / 10	CLAVDIVS	In response to Simple Man's comment about not having a geography for Marr'd: It's Mars. They didn't spell it out, but the book is scattered with hints that Marr'd is actually a terraformed Mars that is slowly reverting to its previous uninhabitable state after a technological collapse. Mars' core has completely cooled, so it has no magnetic field; it's believed that it became a desert after solar wind eroded the atmosphere. Without an artificially maintained atmosphere or magnetic field, the same thing would happen to a terraformed Mars. If you need a world map, find any map of the surface of Mars (or Google Mars); most of the places have names either identical to ones used by astronomers for actual Martian locales, or are recognizeably similar.
8 / 10	Jon Hastings	This book looks good, it reads good, and, most importantly, it plays good. One of my favorite "kitchen sink"-style pulp fantasy settings: there's lots of neat stuff in it, all jumbled together. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to try Sorcerer for the first time.
8 / 10	Uruush	I haven't played enough Sorcerer to say for certain whether or not I like it, but I definitely enjoyed reading this supplement and playing in the imaginative, brutal world it describes. If you like Howard's Conan (and I know a lot of you do), you should check this out.
7 / 10	Flexi	An interesting and very imaginative setting for Sorcerer & Sword. Reminds me of Dark Sun, one of the better settings for AD&D. It's quite a slim volume, somehow I expected more of a meaty book.
6 / 10	Zachary The First	Would be rated higher if not for its use with Sorceror.

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Rating	User	Summary
5 + 5	C.W.Richeson	Dictionary of Mu. More than a supplement for Sorcerer, Dictionary of Mu is a remarkably creative work that clearly showcases the sort of spirit and imagination that drives great roleplaying games. If you want a book you'll love reading every page of then give Dictionary of Mu a try! [ Read Review ]