Item - Quest for the Cities of Gold

This book finally deals in depth with a topic that has been briefly visited in several previous volumes: the exploration of the New World. For some reason, this isn't a subject which I've ever found terribly exciting (I just can't tell any of those explorers apart!), and perhaps this is why the book failed to grab my attention for the first half or so. Eventually, though, I did enjoy the story and find this to be a fairly satisfying read. Strangely enough, though, I have the same gameplay complaint about this book that I did about its predecessor -- unless you pick the right item before the story begins, you are doomed to be stuck in an infinite loop! I can't help feeling that the series would have been better if it had contained a few rules on picking up items during the course of the story; this way, players could have searched for necessary equipment rather than simply being out of luck.... After all, that's what a real time traveler would most likely end up doing.

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