As the author, I have some pointed comments about this product. Mayfair Games did not give sufficient thought to the the well-rounded world design needed to support a classic legacy product like Judge's Guild "City State" setting. They hired me to expand the concept and develop content for it after they had already painted themselves into a corner in terms of game design decisions encapsulated in their foundation boxed set/GM product.

The Calandia guidebook was intended to rectify some of that shortsightedness by offering more cultural hooks for game play, and beef up the world setting of the milieu it took place in. This master GM guide is to my knowledge the only RPG game-guide of its kind to include a wholely original native language and script written and developed for the world setting of Calandia. Linguistics R Us... ( )