Not a bad book, though the quality of the content varies. The hsien, or Asian fae, are very intriguing, and display a lot of promise. However, Land of Eight Million Dreams eschews the familiar Arts and Realms system of Changeling in favor of a new magic system with a dizzying array of possible modifiers that add or subtract dice rather than raising or lowering the target number. The book also could have been better edited - a number of passages tell the reader to "refer to the character sheet," but the is no character sheet in the book! There are some good ideas here, but they're overshadowed by less than stellar execution. It's not bad, but it could have been much better.
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