Engel Pandoramicum

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Summary: Great introduction to Engel setting
Review: For those needing a break from regular comics, or those looking to get a better grasp on the Engel setting, this book is for you. It has good art and grand story, but serves best as a vessel to getting into the Engel setting.

Players of the Engel game line will benefit from seeing how their characters may interact with the world around them from their place at the Himmel. Referees will see how the Dreamseed creatures terrorize the world, and how to get his Engel players involved.

Overall, a great place to start in Engel.

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Summary: Another great Engel product
Review: If you've read the core book for Engel, or maybe want a cheap way to learn about the game, this book come highely recomended. It's a comic with more of that lovely Engel art work, but that is all. It's just fiction with no rules or any thing like that. But what it lacks in rules, it suppplies in game history and even potential elements for you to use in your game. The Wanderer is a very interesting character who I'm dying to know more about, the story behind how the Raguelite Himmel falls is a very important part of the games background, some thing that you could work into your game if you wished, and the Pandoramicum is a very ancient and interesting item that I enjoyed reading about. The story as a whole I found very entertaining and dramatic, usefully for any Engel game and just enjoyable on its own terms.

Again, I'll recomend this to any one who is interested in Engel. It gives you a lot of setting info, history, and even a hint at some of the mysteries of Engel. Pandoramicum packs a whole lot into it's 48 pages and at an unresistable price. Why not give it a try?

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Summary: Sketchy Comic, Short Story.
Review: Indeed, the illustrations were all very sketchy until various points throughout the book(in which details were more fluid, though they were already spectacular). And in that case, I'd hardly consider it a book. However, those were my only real problems, which could have easily been remedied by a color publication. It was more or less what it was worth, and I personally think the story, as grand as it was, was just too short. The summary on the back pretty much tells you the whole story, as there is no real conclusion. The rest of the contained in the book was a toss of brief Engel concepts and histories, so you don't /really/ have to know Engel to know what they're talking about, but it would definitely help get you more into the mood. Those who say this book is a resource to get you into the themes of Engel, have obviously ignored the fact that they know everything outside of this book.

In short, go get Engel before you think this will help you get into the mood of the game, or just shell out 5 bucks for a decent short story.