OSR Review & Commentary On The Incompleat Olden Lands & Chronicles of Mhoriedh Map 00 Olden Lands Continent By James & Jody Moran Mishler From James Mishler Games

 "Nine years late and more than a few details short, here finally is the Incompleat Olden Lands, the gazetteer of my first new world.

"Boy howdy, did I learn a few things NOT to do with building worlds with this one. Lessons that were still not learned for a time; took a while for the lesson to take, so to speak. Biggest lesson – start small, not big! Too much, too many details, too many things to juggle in the design and development eventually bogs you down and burns you out.

I got a good bit along with this one. Maybe three-fifths of the way, perhaps somewhat more, from a glance. Some sections are mostly done; other sections are skeletal, and some are in-between."

"THIS PRODUCT IS INCOMPLETE AND DOES NOT DETAIL THE ENTIRETY OF THE OLDEN LANDS!

The Incompleat Olden Lands includes the following sections, some more complete than others:

Humans of the Olden Lands (Complete)
Demi-Humans of the Olden Lands (Complete)
Humanoids of the Olden Lands (Complete)
Languages of the Olden Lands (Complete)
Political Divisions of the Olden Lands (Various levels of completion)
Geography of the Olden Lands (Various levels of completion)
Complete Monster List by Area (Complete)
Complete Resource List by Type (Complete)
Coinage by Realm (Complete)
Titles and Order of Precedence (Very Incomplete)
Gods of the Olden Lands (Incomplete List Only) " 


Let me start off by saying that I don't look at the Incompleat Olden Lands by James & Jody Moran Mishler as an incomplete product. Let me explain & dive into the nature of the the Incompleat Olden Lands. This is an almost complete supplement which means that its an almost complete campaign setting. And its a well done campaign setting when coupled with the Chronicles of Mhoriedh Map 00 Olden Lands Continent.
Why?! Because the Incompleat Olden Lands gives the DM just enough to get started and lots of room to expand into a fully fleshed out campaign with the rest of Mishler Games products.   The Incompleat Olden Lands & Chronicles of Mhoriedh Map 00 Olden Lands Continent is an excellent side campaign setting for the  Castles & Crusades rpg. Why because almost everything is there to drag & drop a group of players into the Olden Lands. 

The maps are good and Mishler's Olden Lands setting feels like a great OSR campaign setting waiting for the DM to fill in the corners of the map. Everything is almost there & that's fine for me as a DM because the Olden Lands feels like a call back to campaign sets of yore like TSR Greyhawk's box set. Where just enough of the history, setting, and  the middle of the campagin  is filled in & you take on the rest. But the glorious maps that Mishler games includes fills in settlement details, plague areas, etc. And its all really solidly useful. The Olden Lands is perfect for a location based campaign something I'm looking into doing in the next coming months. 
Do I think that The Incompleat Olden Lands & Chronicles of Mhoriedh Map 00 Olden Lands Continent are worth getting?! Well for 7.50 you get an almost complete campaign ready to go! So in a word yes! The  Mishlers doesn't do Kickstarters they do games! Games that are meant to be played. And The Incompleat Olden Lands & Chronicles of Mhoriedh Map 00 Olden Lands Continent is an excellent example of this. 

The Incompleat Olden Lands by James & Jody Moran Mishler is available Here.
  And The Chronicles of Mhoriedh Map 00
 Olden Lands Continent By James & Jody Moran Mishler is Available Here