The only thing I can think of improving for a potential second edition would be to commission artwork rather than licensing pre-existing artwork. The artwork used is very high quality, but something about it just screams 'obviously not made for this book', probably the wide variety of artists (that's a huge credits block!) and lack of a cohesive theme.

Maybe grab two or three artists and commission the art yourselves next time.

Otherwise, I'm shocked more people don't know about this.

I like the modernization of the new book, and most of the new layout. I can appreciate the desire to separate the powers list since some of them might be duplicated between types and flavors, however it's a bit of an annoyance to 'compile' them together when making characters. At least the book has hyperlinks for it!

Very impressed with this much better book layout than 1E. The two-page spread idea (where most rule topics are broken down into a single two-page spread) is great, and is much better than the 1E book I had the displeasure of digging around in to write a wiki for.

The faster/simplified sleeve stats make resleeving much easier, and was one of my biggest complaints about 1E... in a setting that expects you to resleeve often, why make it so complicated? 2E resolved that almost entirely.

A lot of good additional rules for the game! And I love the new cog rules, as well as all the new families/species.